The Future of Our Food
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In a special edition Dan Saladino talks to the UK's biggest food producers and retailers to hear their visions for the future of food, health, sustainability and resilience.
Along with the DEFRA minister Dame Angela Eagle, some of the most influential figures in food and farming are gathering at the annual Sustainable Foods event held in London. On the agenda will be health and nutrition, food security, net zero and regenerative agriculture.
Will the ideas and strategies, outlined by the major supermarkets, food manufacturers and farming organisations result in significant changes to food in the UK?
Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.
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| 0:40.4 | When the world changes, so does the food system, the intricate web linking food production |
| 0:47.0 | and farms all the way to our plates. And if you're feeling the same as me right now, |
| 0:52.0 | the pace scale at unpredictability of change |
| 0:56.1 | in our world is bewildering. |
| 0:58.4 | Great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons. |
| 1:03.3 | Tariffs is leverage. |
| 1:05.5 | And in that speech by the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney describing the shifting tectonic plates of geopolitics, |
| 1:14.6 | food got a mention. |
| 1:15.6 | A country that can't feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options. |
| 1:21.6 | When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself. |
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