On this occasion I had the privilege to talk with Dr. Kent Mullinix, expert in Agriculture and Food Systems, some of the topics we cover were:
- Why are we talking about Food Systems?
- What was before we called it a System.
- What it was like to grow and exchange food for thousands of years.
- How the industrial revolution changed the way we grow our food.
- What impact the globalisation of our economy has had in the way we grow our food.
- Our loss of connection with seasonality, with place.
- The price to pay to eat what we want, as much as we want to, whenever we want to.
- The incredible importance of soil and how bad we treat it.
- The role of technology to solve the problems we cause and its ethics.
- Synthetic fertilisers and how they affect soil microbiota, the carbon cycle and oceans.
- What is it and why regenerative agriculture is so important for the future.
- Water usage in agriculture and its growing scarcity.
- The lack of farmers, today and going into the future!
- Agroecological methods to include introduction of animals in agriculture.
- How it seems to be a link between how we produce food and its decaying nutrient value.
- The troubling disappearance of insects.
- What is the ultimate purpose of agriculture?
- Food production should be aligned with place, with bio regions.
- The interest of young people for agriculture focused on community, rebuilding and ecologically sound community.
- What a sustainable food production future could look like.
