Sianne Frivai is the global manager of cell technologies at biotech at Enzazan. Her company helps breed new varieties of fruit and vegetable seeds to be more productive, resistant to viruses. A good example of what they do came up recently because of a new virus called tomato brown rugos fruit virus. The Netherlands grows 6% of Europe's food supply, just 1% of European farmland.
Feeding the world’s growing population is an increasingly difficult challenge, and climate change won’t make it any easier. Vox’s Kenny Torrella visited the Netherlands, a small country with big ideas about the future of food, to find out more about how the country is approaching the problem.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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