Feeding The Earth's Rising Population
With world鈥檚 population about to reach seven billion, how will we feed everyone? With environmentalist Jason Clay, cookery writer Claudia Roden and anthropologist Richard Wrangham.
As the world鈥檚 population is set to reach seven billion soon, we ask how we鈥檙e going to be able to feed everyone. We take an in depth look at food, from how it is produced, to how it is prepared and ingested.
Leading environmentalist Dr Jason Clay unveils his radical and controversial plan to make food production all over the world more sustainable.
Award winning cookery writer Claudia Roden believes that traditional home cooking is vital when it comes to feeding ourselves.
And Harvard anthropologist Prof Richard Wrangham says we need to learn more about the physics of food so that we can make better nutritional decisions.
Illustration by Emily Kasriel
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Chapters
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Part 1
Doctor Jason Clay
Duration: 14:36
Claudia Roden
Cookery author Claudia Roden
Duration: 08:24
Part 2 60 Second Idea
An affordable hand-held device that tells you whether or not your food is still good
Duration: 05:32
Richard Wrangham
Professor Richard Wrangham
Duration: 11:57
Broadcasts
- Sat 29 Oct 2011 08:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sat 29 Oct 2011 21:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sun 30 Oct 2011 01:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sun 30 Oct 2011 14:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
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