The Food Innovators: Radical Thinkers, Big Ideas.

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino judges the The Food Innovation Award part of the BBC Food & Farming Awards. He is searching for big ideas that can change the food system. In this programme he meets the three finalists:

Wildfarmed grow cereals, alongside farmers that share their values, using a regenerative farming method that prioritises the health of the soil. They are aiming to create an alternative to industrial farming.

Too Good To Go is an app that lets you rescue unsold food from bakeries, cafes and supermarkets that would have otherwise been thrown away, at a much lower cost.

The Alexandra Rose Charity aims to support low-income families by providing fresh fruit and veg through a voucher scheme and prescription scheme through GPs. The vouchers can be spent in local markets, helping the local economy.

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the
0:03.8	podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.
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0:44.5	To start this edition, I've parked up a few minutes walk from Chautham High Street, which is where I live.
0:55.0	And what I'm about to do feels like a strange combination of planning a bank
1:00.4	heist and waking up on Christmas morning. And the reason for that is I'm
1:05.1	waiting for the shops to close so I can make my move and slip inside one of them
1:10.6	and then walk away with a mystery bag filled I hope with the lights.
1:19.1	This is the store and it's closing time. What's brought me here is an app on my phone
1:24.2	through which I've paid four pounds
1:26.3	and in return, when I receive a message,
1:29.6	I'm told I'll be handed lots of food.
1:36.6	There it is. message has appeared so keep listening all will be explained and wish me luck because I've no idea what I'll be
1:42.2	eating tonight.
1:43.2	The app connecting people with mystery bags of food is one of the three ideas
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