
How Might We Build A Food System That Is Healthy For People & The Planet? With Sudhanshu Sarronwala, INFARM Chief Impact Officer & Axel Unger, IDEO Partner
The Big Question: an IDEO Podcast
The Breakdown in the Food System
With the current resource infrastructure that's needed for agriculture and farming to feed 7 billion people by 2050, you need just about two planets. The equation between resource requirement and food output is mismatched in terms of what is actually available. Food grows in five climactic zones around the world; it means that food travels for thousands of kilometers before it hits the plate. And we saw that during the pandemic, as soon as transportation was impacted, food supply chains suffered because there was such long food supply chain. So those three areas, you know, matching the resource that's available, making a climate resilient food system and eliminating that long vulnerable supply chain. Those are the three main areas that we have