The staggering influence our international meals system is having on the planet’s biodiversity.
When most of us take into consideration species’ extinction, the photographs that come to thoughts are of massive predators like tigers or bears which might 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 actual fact, showcases of the staggering influence our international meals system is having on the planet’s biodiversity – which is in danger greater than you assume … and helpful in additional methods than you recognize.
#AllHailThePlanet delves into the social, financial and political forces undermining significant international 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 Through Campesina, Elizabeth Mpofu; panorama architect and environmental educator, Costa Georgiadis; and biologist, agronomist and Svalbard World Seed Vault (SGSV) coordinator, Asmund Asdal.