Industrial agriculture often neglects biodiversity and sustainable ecosystems. Food forests, on the other hand, are species-rich and full of life. Unlike natural forests, food forests are mainly composed of perennial edible plants, including trees and shrubs with edible fruits. They are self-sustaining, productive, and relatively inexpensive to manage.

Could food forests be replacing part of our conventional agriculture?

Tune in to find out what food forests are, how they are designed, and whether they present a scalable solution.

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The FAO estimates that we lost 75% of our crop diversity during the 20th century. This trend is threatening food security and human health. But in recent years awareness has increased and efforts to reverse this trend are being made. So what is crop diversity? How can this benefit our food system?

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The Fairtrade certification system was created to support and empower marginalised small-scale producers and workers in low-income regions of the world. Fairtrade enables farmers and workers to tackle poverty and improve their own financial sustainability, by creating a trade model with fairer prices and working conditions. But to what degree does it work in practice? How does Fairtrade overcome limitations of its system for greater impact?

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Understanding the impacts of sugar on our health is not an easy task. Food science is complicated and imperfect, but some level of confusion has been added in by sugar industry stakeholders, who have spent millions over the past few decades to support studies that would produce desirable results for their industry. That’s why a little historical journey will help us spot conflicts of interest and put current findings in perspective.

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Have you heard of phosphorus? It’s a naturally abundant mineral, essential for the growth of plants. Although it naturally replenishes, the slow regeneration cycle of phosphorus reserves has led to concerns over improper management and unsustainable extraction. Listen on to learn how this might impact future food systems.

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Is soy bad for the environment? Produced on a colossal international scale, soy has a huge environmental impact – but probably not for the reasons you think. Listen to discover the hidden driving force behind soy-related deforestation, and why eating plant-based alternatives like soy is still better for the planet. Stream our AudioArticle: Is Soy Bad for the Environment?

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You would never know when looking at it, but vanilla happens to be one of the most volatile spices on the global market. On the whole, natural vanilla bean extract makes up only 1% of the vanilla flavour on the global market with the majority of vanilla flavouring coming from synthetically-produced vanillin. Some 1,700 to 1,800 tonnes of demand for natural vanilla is projected for 2020. Around 65% of that will come from the Northeastern region of Madagascar, where the rise and fall of vanilla’s price takes a very real toll on the fates and fortunes of the local community. Listen to our AudioArticle on Vanilla Beans: The Cost of Production.

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The organic food market is currently worth $168 billion and has more than doubled in the past decade. Despite being the fastest growing food sector in most European and North American countries, organic agriculture still only contributes to between 1 and 8% of total food sales in the regions. The European Union has now established that by 2030, a quarter of all European food production must be organic, and more and more consumers recognise the organic label. But is organic really where we should be focussing for the future of food production?

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00:00 Intro
01:29 Organic food was born as a philosophical movement
03:36 When did we turn to organic?
4:06 What is DDT?
5:52 What does it mean to do organic farming?
10:50 But is organic really better?
14:16 A possible solution
15:32 Is organic the only alternative?
17:03 What is crop rotation?
17:20 So what is the goal?
18:10 We need a better system for everyone
19:06 Credits

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Many workers employed onboard offshore fishing vessels have been subjected to unsafe working conditions, unfair wages, subpar living conditions and both physical and psychological abuse. While this issue exists around the world, it is particularly rampant in Southeast Asia, a region that owes much of its recent prosperity to its ability to provide cheap seafood through its fisheries. Here is the cost of cheap seafood that you don’t see.

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Our supermarkets are brimming with Spanish produce: green beans, strawberries, aubergines, watermelons... If you live in a European country, chances are that you enjoy produce grown in the greenhouses of Almería, a region in the South-East of Spain. Here’s the side of Almerían greenhouse farming you don’t see.

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Tomatoes are a staple ingredient in many homes across Europe, but the story of how they reach your plate may surprise you. This is a dark story of the invisible people who pick our tomatoes in Italy, but the story parallels many of the other fruits and vegetables we love and eat today, and many of the countries that proudly grow them. The story opens with a rather cheap and affordable tomato sauce tin sitting on a supermarket shelf. It took kilos of tomatoes to make it, countless hands to harvest and process it, and yet the final product is very cheap – perhaps costing even less than 1 euro. But how is that possible?

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Alongside the dramatic rise in health conscious and vegan diets, cashew nuts are fast becoming the world’s favourite nut. But does this rise in demand come at a greater cost? Listen to find out more on the working conditions of cashew processors in India, the hidden costs of cashew processing and how we as consumers can make a difference.

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We love figs for their sweet flavour that pairs well with both sweet and savoury dishes. You probably never given them much thought - but, oh boy, do figs hold a few mysteries.

So what exactly are figs, how are figs pollinated, what is a fig wasp, and why are they so special? Find these answers in our AudioArticle.

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Climate change, obesity, child labour, plastic pollution, and so on: these are all food-related problems and costs we don’t take into account when buying our groceries. How can we include these hidden costs, in order to pay the real price - the true cost - for our food products?

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In this Strength2Food podcast special, we explore:

How can we make school meals more sustainable and healthy through short supply chains? Is it possible to provide primary schools with organic produce? How could you get local producers involved through public food procurement? Dr Richard Simmons, from University of Stirling, elaborates on all this and more, with insights from action research in Serbia, in this Strength2Food podcast special.

*Strength2Food is a 5-year EU-funded project that aims to improve the effectiveness of EU food quality schemes (FQS), public sector food procurement (PSFP) and to stimulate short food supply chains (SFSC) through research, innovation and demonstration activities. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No.678024.

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Time markers:
0:00 Opening Introduction
0:53 Introduction of Dr Richard Simmons
1:36 Improving the quality of school meals through public food procurement
3:07 Challenges around creating sustainable and healthy school meals
4:22 What is public food procurement?
8:12 How Serbian school meals traditional prepared or served
9:26 How the S2F program changed the way Serbian school meals were procured, prepared and served
11:42 How to start the process of shortening supply chains
16:24 Making organic food affordable for schools
17:37 Creating sustainable and nutritious menus
19:59 Standard meal menus can help lower the cost of procurement, make it easier for local suppliers
21:11 Making nutritious meals children can also enjoy
22:49 Balancing meat and sustainability in school meal menus
24:05 Challenges of consistent food supply
26:30 The need for imported fruits and veggies that aren't grown locally
27:51 How to replicate this sustainable initiative and local supply network in your own region
30:22 What it takes to make systematic change
36:01 Setting up for long-term independent success
36:48 What are some limitations or tradeoffs to consider?
37:54 Being a part of change and improvement
40:06 How short supply chains can help stimulate local economy post-COVID19
40:36 Concluding remarks
42:38 Closing

In this Strength2Food special mini-series episode, we explore:

Is organic farming more sustainable than conventional farming? What are the broader social benefits of organic farming? What challenges do we still need to overcome to make organic production sustainable for all actors in the supply chain? Dr Burkhard Shaer, co-founder of ECOZEPT, elaborates on all this and more with insights from intensive case studies and evaluations under the Strength2Food project.

*Strength2Food is a 5-year EU-funded project that aims to improve the effectiveness of EU food quality schemes (FQS), public sector food procurement (PSFP) and to stimulate short food supply chains (SFSC) through research, innovation and demonstration activities. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No.678024.

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Time markers:
0:00 Opening Introduction
0:56 Introduction of Burkhard Shaer
1:35 How is organic defined in the EU?
2:29 Benefits of organic farming
2:47 Broader social benefits of organic farming
3:48 Limitations of organic farming
5:45 Growth of organic production and consumption
7:10 Who typically buys organic products?
8:12 Retailers role in organic
10:29 How can we ensure organic products are truly organic?
12:14 Imported organic produce
14:48 Organic import fraud cases
15:24 Consequences of organic fraud in the EU
16:13 Consumer mistrust in organic food
17:18 How can we reach the EU's target of 25% organic agricultural land?
18:39 Biggest challenges to overcome to reach 25% target
19:54 Economic investment in organic production
20:29 Organic subsidies
21:21 How many farms have converted to organic since 2016?
21:50 Which EU country has the most organic agricultural land?
22:11 Best crops and lands easier to convert to organic
25:07 Sustainability case studies of organic food
26:05 Sustainability of organic pork meat in Germany
28:06 Sustainable factors and indicators
31:00 Sustainability of processed organic tomatoes in Italy
32:07 Social benefits higher in organic production
33:23 What are the most successful modes of organic distribution?
34:42 Diversifying modes of organic distribution
35:13 Resiliency of organic supply chains: natural disasters and excess demand
36:55 Role of organic labelling
38:30 Should organic produce be so expensive?
43:55 Could we feed the entire world only on organic-grown foods?
44:58 Should organic farming be combined with other approaches?
46:26 Concluding Remarks
46:40 Closing

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What are the biggest misconceptions around fisheries? How accurate are the facts in Seaspiracy? Professor Ray Hilborn, a marine and fisheries scientist, joins us on this episode of Food For Thought to clarify all this and more.

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What is greenwashing? How can we spot greenwashing? But more importantly, what can be done about it? Join our first Editor's Table conversation.

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Jane Alice Liu, Editor-in-Chief
Silvia Lazzaris, Editor
Aran Shaunak, Editor
Oliver Fredriksson, Editor

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What are the biggest problems within the cocoa industry today? Are there any initiatives to challenge the status quo? We spoke with Charles Snoeck from IDH, a sustainable trade initiative. As Beyond Chocolate Program Manager, Charles is working together with different actors in the cocoa industry to bring about systematic change within the chocolate trade.

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A climate tax on food could help make our food system more sustainable, but how do farmers feel about it? Lottie Bingham spoke with Stuart Roberts, Farmer and Deputy President of the UK National Farmers Union, to see what the farming community think about implementing a climate tax on food.

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In 2020, the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change released a report containing recommendations for a tax on foods based on their environmental impact. Lottie Bingham speaks with Dr Marco Springmann, a senior researcher in population health at Oxford University, to learn more about what a climate tax on food would mean for our food habits, and the environment.

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Are you eating real wasabi? Or just green-dyed horseradish? How do you tell the difference? And how is real wasabi grown? Dr Janet Colston, founder of the Functional Plant Company in Scotland, explains it all.

Podcast by Annabel Slater.

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How has the coronavirus crisis impacted the red meat industry in the UK? Lottie Bingham spoke with John Royal, a chief livestock advisor of the UK's National Farmers Union of the beef and lamb sectors to understand more.

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Soil is a precious mixture of the living, the never-living, and the dead. It’s a vital resource for 98.8% of our food - and it’s not renewable. Healthy soil is critical not only for farmers, but for whole ecosystems. Find out what makes up soil and what causes its damage in our 7 minute AudioArticle.

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How has the coronavirus crisis impacted farmers and their crop production? But more importantly, what's being done to mitigate the impact? We spoke with Thomas Engel from John Deere's European Innovation Centre in Germany to explore what technologies have helped farmers stabilise their food production against the coronavirus crisis.

The coronavirus quarantines have impacted people all around the world, as well as our food system. Listen in to our four part Coronavirus Series to learn more about the impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on our farmers and food supply system. In this episode, we spoke with Peter Alvis, Chairman of the UK’s Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers to discuss how the coronavirus crisis has impacted the dairy industry.

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Are your eggs from free-range or caged hens? Why do egg farms use cages? Should all egg farms be free-range? What would be the most ethical purchasing decision? We explore all this in this podcast episode with Dr Victoria Sandilands a poultry behaviour expert from Scotland's Rural College.

Ever wonder how lab grown meat is grown? Neil Stevens joins this episode of the FoodUnfolded Podcast to share the ins and outs of cultured meat.

Join us on a journey into space and discover the technologies that help us grow food in outer space. We talk with NASA researcher and plant physiologist Ray Wheeler about bioregenerative system in space and how close we are to farming on Mars.

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Can you grow your own vegetables if you live in the Arctic? Join us on our cold journey to the Svalbard islands, where we join Polar Permaculture to see how they grow vegetables in one of the world's coldest towns: Longyearbyen.

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Ever wonder how your rice is made? Join us on our journey to Singapore, where we join the Ground Up Initiative (an eco-conscious community campus) to see how they grow rice in their small rice paddy field.

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Aquaponics grows herbs and vegetables without soil through a close-looped system, where fish, bacteria and plants are able to mutually benefit while providing for each other.

Join us on our journey to Singapore, where Lee Kim Seng from National University of Singapore shows and explains how he maintains his aquaponics system.

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As the most expensive spice in the world, saffron is an extremely lucrative product. With limited production and growing demand, the spice has become increasingly vulnerable to adulteration and counterfeits. A look into the darker side of the prized spice reveals systemic problems in the spice supply chain.

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Lobbying is often considered the sole remit of large companies and firms, but it also has the potential to directly influence our health, what is on our plates, and what we see in our supermarket aisles. Here’s how lobbying works to shape agricultural policy and influence both regional and national food environments - for better or worse.
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"During my first year of university, I went to the supermarket to buy an avocado and (it’s with great shame that I confess this) I came back home with a mango. Considering the sheer number of avocados that I eat today - in salads, on toast, as guacamole, you name it - it bewilders me that just a few years ago I did not know what an avocado looked like from the outside. Realising that my friends and family have also gone from ignoring them to loving them in just a few years, I decided to embark on a mission to find out as much as possible about the social and environmental impact of making avocados a staple in one’s diet. Here’s what I found."

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More milk, fewer farmers and a sinking demand: So why has the price of milk been falling? And, why are we still producing more milk each year?

Article by Katharina Kropshofer
Read by Cait Mack
Graphics by Eloise Adler
Sound Design by Jane Alice Liu

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Reconnect to the origins and future of your food.
FoodUnfolded is powered by EIT Food, an extended body of the EU.
This project is co-funded by the European Union.

If you look at a satellite image of Spain, you will observe a white dot in the South East of the peninsula often referred to as the ‘Orchard of Europe’. The plastic greenhouses making up that white dot supply many European supermarkets with their affordable produce. But how sustainable is this high-yield agricultural system?

Article by Inés Oort Alonso
Read by Inés Oort Alonso
Graphics by Eloise Adler
Sound Design by Jane Alice Liu

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Bees and other pollinators play an invaluable role on our planet – from being an integral part of land-based ecosystems to sustaining human agricultural systems through pollination. But how does agriculture fare when these little miracle workers disappear from a landscape? Read on to learn why farmers in China’s Sichuan Province have resorted to pollinating their orchards by hand, why can't plants pollinate themselves and what drove this unusual practice.

Article by Molly Melvin
Read by Inés Oort Alonso
Graphics by Eloise Adler
Sound Design by Jane Alice Liu

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