FoodUnfolded Podcast

How has the coronavirus crisis impacted farmers and their crop production? But more importantly, what's being done to mitigate the impact? We spoke with Thomas Engel from John Deere's European Innovation Centre in Germany to explore what technologies have helped farmers stabilise their food production against the coronavirus crisis.

The coronavirus quarantines have impacted people all around the world, as well as our food system. Listen in to our four part Coronavirus Series to learn more about the impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on our farmers and food supply system. In this episode, we spoke with Peter Alvis, Chairman of the UK’s Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers to discuss how the coronavirus crisis has impacted the dairy industry.

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Are your eggs from free-range or caged hens? Why do egg farms use cages? Should all egg farms be free-range? What would be the most ethical purchasing decision? We explore all this in this podcast episode with Dr Victoria Sandilands a poultry behaviour expert from Scotland's Rural College.

Ever wonder how lab grown meat is grown? Neil Stevens joins this episode of the FoodUnfolded Podcast to share the ins and outs of cultured meat.

Join us on a journey into space and discover the technologies that help us grow food in outer space. We talk with NASA researcher and plant physiologist Ray Wheeler about bioregenerative system in space and how close we are to farming on Mars.

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Can you grow your own vegetables if you live in the Arctic? Join us on our cold journey to the Svalbard islands, where we join Polar Permaculture to see how they grow vegetables in one of the world's coldest towns: Longyearbyen.

To learn more about permaculture in the Arctic, you can read our article at foodunfolded.co/arcticfarming. You can find the Polar Permaculture online (www.polarpermaculture.com/) and on Facebook (@polarpermaculture).

Ever wonder how your rice is made? Join us on our journey to Singapore, where we join the Ground Up Initiative (an eco-conscious community campus) to see how they grow rice in their small rice paddy field.

To learn more about how rice is grown in asia, you can read our article at foodunfolded.co/rice. You can find the Ground Up Initiative online (groundupinitiative.org) and on Instagram (@groundupinitiative).

Aquaponics grows herbs and vegetables without soil through a close-looped system, where fish, bacteria and plants are able to mutually benefit while providing for each other.

Join us on our journey to Singapore, where Lee Kim Seng from National University of Singapore shows and explains how he maintains his aquaponics system.

To learn more about aquaponics, you can read our article at foodunfolded.co/aquaponics.