Future Food

Louisa Burwood-Taylor
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Future Food Podcast

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!

  1. 09/11/2023

    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!

    24 min

  2. 26/05/2022

    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.

    25 min

  3. 22/10/2021

    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.

    36 min

  4. 15/10/2021

    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.

    30 min

  5. 25/06/2021

    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.

    40 min

  6. 24/06/2021

    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.

    1h 21m

  7. 19/05/2021

    Future Food News Review #4: Regenerative agriculture's reckoning, Questions for cell-cultured meat, Right-wing coffee, more

    Welcome to the fourth edition of the highly popular Future Food News Review, with foodtech, agtech and food systems' leading journalists. This week's headlines covered Restaurant worker exploitation and fast food's recruitment struggle, Farmworker exploitation and the dangerous journey Mexican farmworkers take each day during Covid-19, How recipe website Epicurious and high-end New York restaurant Eleven Madison Park dropped meat, then an in-depth conversation about alternative proteins including questions for cultured meat companies and UPSIDE Food's Whole Foods investment and partnership. We also covered how and why regenerative agriculture needs a reckoning and the emergence of right-wing coffee companies.

    1h 36m

  8. 18/05/2021

    Up, up and away! Irving Fain on building Bowery's biggest vertical farm yet

    There's certainly been a fair amount of hype about vertical farming over the years. And while there's still a long way to go before this ag sector becomes a true alternative to outdoor farming, it feels as if we're reaching an inflection point where sci-fi dreams are becoming reality. Bowery is a case in point.

    37 min
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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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  • Creator
    Louisa Burwood-Taylor
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2023
  • Episodes
    42
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Future Food

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