Mar 17, 2023
What’s for dinner?
On a planet wracked by rising seas, disappearing biodiversity, and
hotter temperatures, that’s a tough question to answer.
The way we produce, eat and waste food is one of the largest
drivers of climate change globally, with food production
responsible for a whopping one-third of greenhouse gas emissions.
It’s also the primary driver of biodiversity loss, with agriculture
alone threatening 86% of species at risk of extinction.
At the same time, rising temperatures, heatwaves, droughts and
floods, changes in rainfall patterns and other extreme events
affect agriculture more than any other sector.
Scientists have found that limiting climate change will be
impossible without big changes to how the world eats. But this does
not have to be a downward spiral. We can reverse the negative
relationship between food systems and climate change and turn it
into a positive one.
That’s why the future of food is on the menu in this episode of
our It’s
Possible podcast.
We sat down with three experts to get a taste of what transforming
the food system looks like: