Saturday, July 30, 2022

How big agriculture is taking over our diets

Jul 29, 2022

 Just a few companies control half of the world’s commercial seeds. They dictate what farmers grow and how – and what ends up on our plates. How did we get into this food mess? And is there a way out of it?

Reporter: Tatiana Kondratenko Camera: Serdar Vardar Video Editor: Markus Mörtz Supervising Editors: Joanna Gottschalk & Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. #PlanetA #Agriculture #FoodSecurity Read More: Svalbard Global Seed Vault’s Seed Portal: https://seedvault.nordgen.org/ Genetically Engineered Crops: Experiences and Prospects: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/cat... The Open-Source Seed Initiative: https://osseeds.org/ Underutilized Wild Crops in Koraput, India: https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volu... Use of Glyphosate in the US: https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usa... Trends in Varietal Diversity of Main Staple Crops in Asia and Africa: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...  

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