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How to Feed the World Responsibly

Tara Shyam is Executive Director of Regen10, a global initiative to support the transition to an inclusive, regenerative, and equitable agrifood systems, and it just published a roadmap. A conversation about sharing responsibility as well as direction.
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Farmacy’s Manifesto

    • Agency
    • Agriculture
    • Community
    • Viewpoint
A self-published handbook from a Notting Hill vegan restaurant might seem an unlikely vehicle for a radical food systems manifesto, but Farmacy's Manifesto on the Future of Food makes a compelling, if imperfect, case for regenerative agriculture and the urgent need to rethink how “we” feed ourselves.
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Photo © Rachel Tan, courtesy Ivan Brehm & Nouri restaurant

Remove the Arbiters of Taste

    • Kitchen
    • Agency
    • Systems
    • Viewpoint
Michelin-starred chef Ivan Brehm worked at Per Se, Mugaritz, and The Fat Duck, before opening his own restaurant, Nouri, in Singapore in 2017. He shares his thoughts about artifice, agency, and the unsustainable game fine dining has become.
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Food is Political

    • Viewpoint
    • Agency
    • Education
BBC Food Programme presenter Sheila Dillon has spent four decades establishing food as an important, newsworthy subject and breaking big political stories through the lens of food.
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Can You Feel The Force?

    • Storytelling
    • Microbiome
    • Viewpoint
From me to we: a biocosmic metaphor in a speculative meditation on humans and holobionts, microbes and midichlorians, Star Wars and storytelling by Sophie Lovell. May the Force be with us.
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Sowing Seeds of Hope in Ukraine

    • Agriculture
    • Agency
    • Community
We asked Yuliya Stefanyuk, the World Central Kitchen's Response Director in Ukraine, about WCK's new project distributing of seeds to help those affected by the war grow their own food and rebuild resilience.
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Being Human in the ‘House that Pigs built’

    • Agency
    • Agriculture
    • Systems
    • Technology
Cooking Sections' new exhibition about intensive pig farming at Denmark's MAPS Museum doesn't just reveal what industrial farming does to a landscape and its people, it also invites them to fight back.
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SOS: Who’s Saving Our Soils?

    • Systems
    • Agriculture
    • Policy
The EU Soil Strategy for 2030 was launched in November 2021 as part of the European Green Deal. Its first law, the Soil Monitoring Law, went into force in December 2025. But is it enough to save our soils and ourselves?
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BEANS; PEAS NUTS. AND SITTING

    • Storytelling
    • Agency
Stanley Green campaigned on a corner of Oxford Street in London between 1968 and 1993. Sophie Lovell relates a strange story about diets, moral commitment, sitting and lust that may also be a lesson in resilience.
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The Last Harvest

    • Agriculture
    • Agency
    • Community
    • Legacy
Dr Debal Deb and The Last Harvest is a documentary about one man's decades-long battle to rescue India's indigenous rice diversity from oblivion. Journalist Dan Saladino visits Basudha Farm in Odisha, to learn about how he is building a sustainable legacy.
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