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The Food Programme

Gabriella D'Cruz: Global Youth Champion

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4943 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Gabriella D’Cruz, from Goa, wants to improve diets, transform livelihoods and protect the planet using an often-overlooked marine vegetable - seaweed.

Ruth Alexander speaks to the 29-year-old about her big plans for the underwater crop, and her hope that it could bring lasting economic and environmental change to India’s coastal communities.

Gabriella’s passion and her project’s potential saw her chosen by a panel of international judges as the winner of The Food Chain Global Youth Champion Award 2021.

Produced by Simon Tulett originally for The Food Chain on the BBC World Service

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0:48.0

We hope you enjoy it. The sun is slowly coming up over the hill and it's really beautiful actually over here.

1:00.0

It's a small bay surrounded by thick forests.

1:04.0

Let yourself be transported to Kunta, just outside Goa in India.

1:10.0

You can see a lot of wild banana trees on the rock surfaces and a lot of banyans and wild grasses and a little patch of sand and then it's down into the cove which is full of rocks filled with oysters and

1:24.6

muscles and seaweed. It sounds like heaven somewhere I'd like to lie down

1:31.9

and relax but for Gabriella de Cruz, this is going to be the site of a lot of hard work.

1:39.0

It's this location that we're going to set up a tiny pilot seaweed farm and we're hoping

1:44.4

to run it for the next six months and then see how successful it is and then try and

1:50.5

encourage a few coastal communities to adopt this model if they feel like it's something

1:55.2

they would like to do.

1:57.0

Gabriella is this year's BBC Global Youth Champion, a category in the annual Food and Farming Awards.

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