The Future of Crop Breeding

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CNN's John Sutter talks with a seed breeder in Zaden, Arizona. Girthon Van de Bunt works on heat-resistant green beans. He says climate change is going to make farming increasingly unpredictable and challenging. The company Popbrained uses new technologies that just speed up the process.

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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