How do you keep food cold?
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Up to 40% of food in Africa and India is wasted because of a lack of what's called "the cold chain" - the infrastructure keeping food chilled and fresh, from farm to fork.
Many small-scale farmers have no access to any kind of refrigeration, meaning they're losing income and wasting food that could otherwise be sold.
Devina Gupta meets the entrepreneur who is building pay-as-you-go solar powered cold rooms in India, and hears from farmers, traders and experts on how we can keep food cold as the population grows and the planet warms up.
(Picture: A farmer carries a crate of mangoes from an orchard on the outskirts of Bangalore. Credit: Getty Images)
Presenter: Devina Gupta Producer: Lexy O'Connor
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| 0:26.6 | Namaste and welcome to New Delhi, the capital of India. |
| 0:31.0 | It's evening here and you can hear the traffic on the streets |
| 0:34.2 | as people rush back to their homes. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Divina Gupta and you're listening to Business Daily on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:43.2 | To feed its population, this big, busy city relies on produce coming in from the fields around it. |
| 0:50.8 | But here in India, like many other emerging economies, there's a big problem. |
| 0:56.3 | An astonishing amount of food is being wasted because it's going bad before it gets to shoppers. |
| 1:02.6 | The reason is a lack of refrigeration from farm to folk, otherwise known as the coal chain. |
| 1:10.0 | So what can be done about it? |
| 1:12.6 | Let's find out. |
| 1:16.6 | Oh, I've reached my apartment. |
| 1:20.6 | And as is the custom in my house, I leave my shoes near the door. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm feeling thirsty, so let me take you into the kitchen. |
| 1:30.0 | Here's the fridge, and I love the cool air on my face. |
| 1:36.6 | Okay, a bottle of water. |
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