Feed: a food systems podcast

4. Farm machinery, precision agriculture, big data


Listen Later

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.

Visit the episode webpage for more resources.

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.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Feed: a food systems podcastBy TABLEdebates.org

  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8

4.8

18 ratings


More shows like Feed: a food systems podcast

View all
The Book Review by The New York Times

The Book Review

3,861 Listeners

The Political Scene | The New Yorker by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

3,890 Listeners

Climate One by Climate One from The Commonwealth Club

Climate One

560 Listeners

Gastropod by Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Gastropod

3,599 Listeners

The New Yorker Radio Hour by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

The New Yorker Radio Hour

6,561 Listeners

Upstream by Upstream

Upstream

1,738 Listeners

Drilled by Critical Frequency

Drilled

2,190 Listeners

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer by Civic Ventures

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

1,477 Listeners

The Climate Pod by The Climate Pod

The Climate Pod

287 Listeners

Tech Won't Save Us by Paris Marx

Tech Won't Save Us

481 Listeners

A Matter of Degrees by Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson

A Matter of Degrees

482 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

15,263 Listeners

Food with Mark Bittman by Mark Bittman

Food with Mark Bittman

961 Listeners

Critics at Large | The New Yorker by The New Yorker

Critics at Large | The New Yorker

551 Listeners

Shift Key with Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins by Heatmap News

Shift Key with Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins

90 Listeners