Summary
How do you feed a world in lockdown? We’ll be looking at the pressures on the global food supply chain in this episode of Business Weekly. As many choose to buy more locally produced food we’ll ask whether new habits will stick. Two renowned economists tell us that any governments handing out Coronavirus bailouts must learn the lessons from the financial crisis of 2008 and impose tighter conditions. ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus speaks to us about life in Sweden during the pandemic and gives us his thoughts on fellow countrywoman Greta Thunberg. Plus - has the coronavirus forever changed the workplace as we know it? Lucy Burton presents.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment, |
| 0:06.1 | and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments. |
| 0:10.1 | That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly, |
| 0:14.4 | a new weekend programme which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking stories you might have missed from the BBC's business team. |
| 0:28.2 | Hello, I'm Lucy Burton and welcome to Business Weekly. On the show today, as companies start to get corona bailouts, |
| 0:35.1 | we hear from both a Nobel Prize winner and a former |
| 0:38.1 | presidential advisor who say we must learn the lessons from the past. We'll be getting on |
| 0:43.2 | our bikes in a bid to avoid public transport and stay healthy, and we'll be hearing about |
| 0:48.2 | efforts to save the cheese industry. And whilst our thoughts are on food, you will have noticed |
| 0:53.5 | if you've been to the supermarket lately |
| 0:55.3 | that along with the new rules to shop two metres away from others, disinfect your trolley and wear a mask, |
| 1:01.6 | there's less choice of food on the shelves. The pandemic and the measures taken to contain it |
| 1:06.9 | are straining those complex links between the producers, processes and grocers that make up |
| 1:12.3 | the global food supply chain. It's simply more difficult to get food that comes from further away. |
| 1:17.7 | My colleague Manuel Seragossa has been looking into this, so I asked her, as people are starting |
| 1:22.2 | to buy local produce, whether food buying habits were changing in the West. |
| 1:26.7 | Well, there is evidence that it's happening. |
| 1:29.0 | This week, for example, we saw the results of a University of Antwerp in Belgium study, |
| 1:33.2 | which surveyed 11,000 shoppers in 11 different countries, places like Australia, Uganda, France, Canada, |
| 1:40.4 | Brazil, Ireland. |
| 1:41.7 | And the results of that showed that shoppers are cutting their spending on |
| 1:45.4 | ready-made meals and buying more fruit and vegetables. So basically turning to healthy eating |
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