A Food Revolution in Ten Ideas.

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino looks at 10 potentially planet changing ideas for the future of food, from a farm out at sea to a pioneering rethink on how we can feed cities. Dan meets the scientists, entrepreneurs and risk-takers focused on transforming the health of the planet, and us.

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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0:00.0	Was Amber Lynn really a wicked queen?
0:04.4	People feared women who were smart.
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0:08.0	Exactly.
0:09.0	What about resputing?
0:10.4	A miraculous mystic or a die-hard deviant. I think there's some bad stuff in there. I do weirdly respect him.
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0:35.0	North of Norway in the Arctic Ocean lies the archipelago of Svalbard.
0:45.2	In winter, this becomes a snow-covered landscape in which it's possible to see glaciers,
0:51.9	reindeer, polar bears and jutting out from the side of a mountain, a modernist
0:57.6	structure that can beam light out across the tundra.
1:01.8	Through the building's entrance lies a tunnel dug deep into
1:06.1	the Arctic permafrost beneath which is the Sfulbard Seed Vault, the world's backup collection of agricultural diversity, the legacy of
1:16.5	thousands of years of farming by your ancestors and mine.
1:22.2	Living seeds that have been passed down successfully from one generation to another
1:27.4	basically since the dawn of agriculture 12, 15,000 years ago.
1:31.4	It's almost a religious experience. I've had visitors that have walked out of that room with tears in their eyes.
1:38.0	This is not just a living history of human beings on Earth, but it's also everything that our agricultural
1:45.6	crops and thus we can be in the future. Plant scientist Carrie Fowler, one of the
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