Code Switch

How the potato became an insult

The potato might be one of the most beloved foods on Earth. And yet almost nowhere does anybody respect it.

The Business of Tech

From Leaf to lunch: the Canterbury startup rethinking protein

How could we develop a system that produced far more protein per hectare of land at a much lower environmental impact, and can we weave those things together into a business, which is what we have done.

Prof G Markets

Is the Oil Crisis About to Break Global Supply Chains? | Prof G Markets

Energy is upstream of everything and more importantly food the the fertilizer production coming out of that region. Um and it's planting season so it's a very bad timing for the world's agricultural supply chains.

TED

The Tiny Organisms Transforming Farming | Karsten Temme | TED

78 percent of the air around us is nitrogen gas. That's a form that plants can't use, and so they've partnered with microbes on a process called nitrogen fixation. The microbes can breathe in that nitrogen gas and turn it into a form that plants can metabolize. It's a symbiosis, a partnership that's worked for millions of years, right up until the point that humans started breeding crops to be more productive.