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Episodes

These documentaries examine where our food comes from and how this might change in the near future with new technologies and innovative ways of farming.

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guy in the field with a box of grapes
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Ep1
Follow the food chain
Image of fields from above
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Ep2
The fight for food security
guy in the field with a box of grapes
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Ep3
The carbon challenge
drone flying over a field
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Ep4
Farmers on the Frontline
Tomatoes growing on a wall
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Foodtopia
A goat eating grass
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You are what your food eats
Composting tomatoes
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Ep3
The waste chain
Straining dairy through a cloth
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Ep4
Protein planet
Plants growing under UV light
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Ep5
Future farms
Important foods that we eat in our daily lives are under threat of extinction, but can they be saved?
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Ep6
The endangered foods list
Food has the power to prevent and even treat diseases. James Wong meets the scientists growing new nutritious crops that could save lives.
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Ep7
Food as medicine
Food has the power to prevent and even treat diseases. James Wong meets the scientists growing new nutritious crops that could save lives.
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Ep8
The foods that could prevent climate disasters
plants in polytunnel (Credit: 麻豆社)
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Farmers on the frontline
person holding sapling (Credit: 麻豆社)
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Ep2
Seeds of life
farmer in vertical farm (Credit: 麻豆社)
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Ep3
Growing new farmers
Farmer in paddy field (Credit: Getty Images)
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Ep4
It never rains, it pours
Carrots in soil (Credit: Getty Images)
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Ep5
The promised land
Carrots in soil (Credit: Getty Images)
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Ep6
Urban farming
beekeeper looking at hive (Credit: 麻豆社)
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Ep7
A smarter harvest
lab grown meat in a presser (Credit: 麻豆社)
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Ep8
Consumer power
equipment for working the land
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Closing the gap
water splashing in a field
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The water challenge
people gathering vegetables in a field
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Ep3
Generation Farmer
Hi-tech equipment
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Hi-tech solutions
red sweet chillis
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Ep5
Wasting waste
people in a green market
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Ep6
Better food
legs of a farmer in a dusty field
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Ep7
Soil: The new gold rush
food systems in floors
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Sustainable food systems

FOLLOW THE FOOD

In-Depth

An in-depth multimedia series examining the biggest pressures on the world food system, from soil loss to malnutrition, and the solutions to help overcome them.

Follow the food

Articles

Insights from farmers, researchers and industry experts who are working to bolster food security so the world can feed its growing population while also tackling the challenges it faces.

How we can adapt plants to save our planet
The reasons to be hopeful our food will fix the planet
How to feed the world in the next crisis
The drones watching over cattle where cowboys cannot
The simple food that fights climate change
The spray that turns deserts into farmland
The "green" milk made from cells
The farm that doesn't need freshwater
The digital port that was prepared for Covid
The "pandemic" threatening bananas
How Covid-19 is changing food shopping
The "lost" seeds helping to feed a nation
The robots that can pick kiwi-fruit
The city switching to local produce
The farms appearing beneath our cities
The urban farm sending meals to children
The miller delivering flour to people's homes
The food workers producing miracles in a crisis
The green sludge that could transform our diets
The "invisible" women at the heart of the chocolate industry
Can we save the bees that feed the world
How farming in forests could sustain the planet
Why food's plastic problem is bigger than we realise
How farming can help to heal nature
How to fix our broken food system
Five ways we can feed the world in 2050

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