42 episodes
Future Food Louisa Burwood-Taylor
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What will you be eating in 2050? How will it get to your table? How we grow, purchase, and eat our food is changing. New technologies and food products are playing a key role in shaping that change. In this podcast, we speak to the people driving that future, from entrepreneurs and venture capital investors, to farmers and food businesses. Welcome to Future Food!
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Investing in agrifoodtech since 2017: Astanor's Eric Archambeau reflects
Hello, it's me! You probably thought this podcast was dead and it kind of is, but I am back for a special episode and potentially a few more in the following months as part of a celebratory series of interviews for the 10-year anniversary of AgFunder as well as the $1bn Climate Corp acquisition by Monsanto, a deal that largely propelled the industry into being!
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From What’s Your Problem?: The Quest for the Perfect Avocado
Hello Future Food listeners! Today I'm sharing a special preview of a new podcast I've been enjoying called What’s Your Problem? from Pushkin Industries.
What’s Your Problem? explains the problems really smart people are trying to solve right now, from creating a drone delivery service to building a car that can truly drive itself. Jacob Goldstein, former host of Planet Money, talks with innovators about the future they’re trying to build – and the problems they have to solve to get there. -
Soylent's CEO on shift towards middle America and the future of plant-based
In this episode, I speak to Demir Vangelov, who’s the CEO of Soylent, the company many of you might know for making meal replacements drinks for busy entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. But the now-profitable company has shifted its target consumer towards middle America.
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How 'cool' fertilizers can sequester carbon and more, with Amy Yoder
Before your eyes start to roll, fertilizers are cool! We wouldn't be able to eat what we do without them.
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Diving deep with Sandhya Sriram on the future of cell-cultured seafood
AFN chief editor Louisa Burwood-Taylor talks to Sandhya Sriram, co-founder and CEO of Singaporean cell-cultured seafood startup Shiok Meats.
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Future Food News Review #5: Food system cyber-attacks, Avoiding alt protein’s unintended consequences, Cashierless checkout's growth
Welcome to the fifth edition of the very popular Future Food News Review, with foodtech, agtech and food systems' leading journalists. This week's headlines covered the spate of cyber hacking experienced by the food sector including meatpacker JBS, the rise of cashierless checkout technology and its social impact, a deeper look at plant-based meat and dairy alternatives and their impact on the environment, how New York delivery workers are rewriting the rules of gig work, how food delivery behemoths like DoorDash and Grubhub appeal to small restaurants, often to their detriment, Tesla's recent restaurant license, and the future for vertical farming in the wake of Bowery's $300m raise.