4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Alasdair Keane is on a farm with a difference exploring the tech helping farmers adapt to changing climates. We'll hear from startups tyring to improve how crops are watered and analysing moisture data from space. We also find out how one ice cream company is warming their freezers without the ice cream melting.
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1:01.2 | Welcome to TechLife on the BBC World Service, |
1:04.8 | the programme where we explore the latest innovations in technology |
1:07.9 | and how they impact your life. |
1:09.8 | This week we're talking about something |
1:11.8 | very close to my heart, food. And to do that, I've come to a farm, although this is maybe not |
1:19.0 | the first image that will come to your mind. This is a vertical farm, a highly controlled |
1:23.6 | environment, and one way food production is changing as the world adapts to climate change. |
1:28.8 | We'll explore what this is later, but we'll also be talking to those working around the world |
1:33.5 | in agri-tech. That's the name for technology connected to farming. And stay tuned because I've been |
1:39.4 | to find out about what seems like a simple tech solution to lower the climate impact of buying ice cream |
1:44.8 | that's actually been more than a decade in development. |
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