The staggering affect our world meals system is having on the planet’s biodiversity.
When most of us take into consideration species’ extinction, the pictures that come to thoughts are of massive predators like tigers or bears which can be endangered, or huge swaths of forest habitat being razed together with the creatures in it.
However how about this picture: a grocery store aisle. It appears counterintuitive, supermarkets seem as areas of such vary and abundance. However look a bit of nearer and also you’ll quickly realise they’re, in truth, showcases of the staggering affect our world meals system is having on the planet’s biodiversity – which is in danger greater than you suppose … and useful in additional methods than you recognize.
#AllHailThePlanet delves into the social, financial and political forces undermining significant world motion on local weather change.
On this ninth episode, Ali Rae speaks with scholar and meals rights activist, Vandana Shiva; farmer and former chief of By way of Campesina, Elizabeth Mpofu; panorama architect and environmental educator, Costa Georgiadis; and biologist, agronomist and Svalbard International Seed Vault (SGSV) coordinator, Asmund Asdal.
