
Growing food sustainably
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
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Gardening Is About Quality, Not Just Eating
The food system is actually what feeds us, and it does it in a very distorted way. Some very good things have happened, lots of improvements compared to a hundred years ago. But some of those apparent improvements are now what we recognize as a problem. We're living in the illusion that we haven't got necessity to grow our food better and more sustainably. The impact of seven billion people on the planet is huge. Unless there is a big population shift in behaviour and how we eat and consume, particularly in the rich worldn Particularly in the rich in the richworld,. then, frankly, we won't be lowering carbon footprints. It's gong to be at a mass population scale
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