Feed: a food systems podcast

4. Farm machinery, precision agriculture, big data


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Fossil fuels are woven into nearly every aspect of modern agriculture - from powering farm machinery to creating plastics and supporting data-driven tech like precision agriculture. But what would it take to reduce or even eliminate their use on farms? We dive into both replacement technologies and transformative food production methods like agroecology, exploring the obstacles and limitations of scaling different solutions.

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This series is powered by TABLE, IPES-Food and Global Alliance for the Future of Food.

Guests

  • Darrin Qualman, National Farmers Union Canada
  • Pat Mooney, IPES Food
  • Jennifer Clapp, IPES Food
  • Swati Renduchintala, CIFOR-ICRAF

Produced by Matthew Kessler, Anna Paskal and Nicole Pita. Edited by Matthew Kessler. Audio engineering by Adam Titmuss. Cover art by The Ethical Agency. Music by Blue dot sessions.

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