Food Systems - ForumforAg

In this episode we talk with Melissa Ho, Senior Vice President for Water and Food at WWF-US, about the major global summits this year, increasing droughts and agricultural management in the American West, whether payments systems for water are the future, as well as land management ideas for better water retention. 

 

WWF is a Strategic Partner of the Forum for the Future of Agriculture. 

In this episode we talk with Alberto Arroyo, Head of Policy and Programs at the IUCN European Regional Office, about a recent report looking into different forms of more sustainable agriculture, what commonalities they share, how they can best be implemented, and whether there is low-hanging fruit that can be more easily achieved. 

 

IUCN is a Strategic Partner of the Forum for the Future of Agriculture.

 

Read the IUCN report on sustainable agriculture here: https://www.iucn.org/news/europe/202006/sustainable-agriculture-explained

 

Listen to Ask a Harvard Professor on Food Waste here: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/emily-broad-leib 

In this episode, we talk with Sébastien Treyer, Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development & International Relations (IDDRI), about a recent study on the shift towards agro-ecology across the EU. Sébastien also discusses the role of innovation & technology and how consumers will be key in transforming the food system.

In this episode we talk to Chris Harbourt, Global Head of Carbon at Indigo, about how carbon farming works in the field, how reliable the metrics and economics are, the timescale required to keep it in the ground, and how he sees the future of this developing sector. 

 

Indigo is a supporting Friend of the Forum for the Future of Agriculture.

In this episode we talk with Ken Giller, Professor of Plant Production Systems at Wageningen University, about what regenerative agriculture means in practice, why it is having such a moment in the spotlight now, whether it could be applied in Africa, and what the boundaries of the system might be. 

 

You can read Ken's paper here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0030727021998063 

 

In this episode we talk to Adele Jones, Deputy CEO of the Sustainable Food Trust, about true cost accounting, how it can help create clarity around food production and consumer choice, how it could be practically implemented, and whether the political will to implement it is present today. 

You can read the article in Nature that Adele co-authored HERE. 

In this episode we talk to Mark Titterington, Co-Founder of the FFA and Senior Adviser, and Caroline Mahr, FFA Program Director, about the coming year of FFA, EU-US relations, the shift towards a sustainable food system, and their views on the most important policies coming up in the next twelve months. 

In this episode we talk to Matija Zulj, Founder and CEO of Agrivi, about his view on smart technologies in farming, their impact on the market and local communities, consumer confidence and traceability, and what he views as the most impactful technology in the coming five years.

In this episode we talk with Marc Rosiers, Managing Director of MR Food and Agriculture Consulting, about the position of farmers in the food chain, whether true pricing can ever be implemented, short supply chains, and his expectations of carbon farming. 

In this episode we talk with Jean-Marc Chappuis, deputy director of the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture, about the ongoing Swiss agricultural reform package, how the country supports land management in mountainous areas, and the Swiss goals for the UN Food System Summit.