In this episode Emily King shares the reality of hungry people in Aotearoa New Zealand, rising food and living costs, and how the school lunch programme that started off so well was stripped of everything. Barriers to accessing food are introduced.

In this episode Emily King explores access to food, sharing positive stories of community groups addressing dire shortages of food.

In this episode Emily King goes deeper into the impacts of the food system on human health and how that links into earlier discussions in Grow and Make.

In this episode Emily King explores what we should eat and whether there really is such a thing as a sustainable diet.

In this episode Emily King examines food loss and waste. She also looks at the changes we need to make in order to redesign a food system that doesn’t waste food or have excessive packaging, including approaches like the circular economy for food.

In this episode Emily King continues to unpack the packaging woes in the food system looking at plastics, different types of packaging, and what you can do about it.

In this episode Emily King explores the quagmire of packaging in the food system and both sides of it: those responsible for making it and those responsible for disposing of it.

In this episode Emily King explores the pressures our growers face including soils being paved for housing and what that means for our national food system. Emily unpacks a different way of understanding costs in the food system with True Cost Accounting.

In this episode Emily King explores how much food we produce, our curious nutrient balance of imports and exports, along with labeling, transparency, and traceability, including food fraud and how to detect it.

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