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Episode Seven
James Wong explores whether thinking of food as medicine could change our approach to how we grow and distribute it.
As we race towards a global population of nine then ten billion, how can we produce enough food to feed us all, given that climate change now directly threatens the very crops we rely on?
In Follow the Food, James Wong explores whether farmers, scientists, tech innovators and consumers can build a new food system that can meet the twin challenges of population growth and climate change. In this episode: could thinking of food as medicine change our approach to how we grow it and distribute it?
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