Why aren’t food and farming talked about at COP? Prof Tim Benton answers
Our food system accounts for around a third of all global emissions – so why has it hardly been talked about at previous COPs?
How can we create a more climate-friendly UK food system? Listen to our podcast as it explores this complicated topic.
In each episode we meet the people trying to figure this out, their latest research and discuss the big issues the country will have to wrestle with in doing so. The podcast is hosted by Jez Fredenburgh, our Knowledge Exchange Fellow, based at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.
Our food system accounts for around a third of all global emissions – so why has it hardly been talked about at previous COPs?
In this episode we head to Groundswell – the UK’s biggest regenerative farming festival – to take a look at the growing interest among farmers in regenerative and agro-ecological practices.
In this episode we’re looking at how psychology and poverty influence our food choices, and ability to lead healthy and sustainable lives.
In this episode we’re asking – what’s holding the UK food system back from making the scale of change needed to tackle the climate crisis, and where should we focus research to help unlock it?
How do we save the planet and our health through food? Henry Dimbleby has many ideas and is on a mission to spread the word.
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