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Our supermarkets are brimming with Spanish produce: green beans, strawberries, aubergines, watermelons... If you live in a European country, chances are that you enjoy produce grown in the greenhouses of Almería, a region in the South-East of Spain. Here’s the side of Almerían greenhouse farming you don’t see.

Article by Inés Oort Alonso
Read by Inés Oort Alonso
Sound Design by Jane Alice Liu

Read the full article at https://www.foodunfolded.com/article/how-ethical-is-our-european-grown-produce

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Reconnect to the origins and future of your food.
FoodUnfolded is powered by EIT Food, an extended body of the EU.

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Tomatoes are a staple ingredient in many homes across Europe, but the story of how they reach your plate may surprise you. This is a dark story of the invisible people who pick our tomatoes in Italy, but the story parallels many of the other fruits and vegetables we love and eat today, and many of the countries that proudly grow them. The story opens with a rather cheap and affordable tomato sauce tin sitting on a supermarket shelf. It took kilos of tomatoes to make it, countless hands to harvest and process it, and yet the final product is very cheap – perhaps costing even less than 1 euro. But how is that possible?

Article by Silvia Lazzaris
Read by Silvia Lazzaris
Sound Design by Jane Alice Liu

Read the full article: Tomatoes in Italy | The Social Cost of Production

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Reconnect to the origins and future of your food. FoodUnfolded is powered by EIT Food, an extended body of the EU.

This project is co-funded by the European Union.

Alongside the dramatic rise in health conscious and vegan diets, cashew nuts are fast becoming the world’s favourite nut. But does this rise in demand come at a greater cost? Listen to find out more on the working conditions of cashew processors in India, the hidden costs of cashew processing and how we as consumers can make a difference.

Article by Molly Melvin
Read by Cait Mack
Sound Design by Jane Alice Liu
Read our full article: Cashew Nuts | The Hidden Cost of Cashew Processing

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Reconnect to the origins and future of your food. FoodUnfolded is powered by EIT Food, an extended body of the EU.

This project is co-funded by the European Union.

Climate change, obesity, child labour, plastic pollution, and so on: these are all food-related problems and costs we don’t take into account when buying our groceries. How can we include these hidden costs, in order to pay the real price - the true cost - for our food products?

Article by Marieke van Schoonhoven
Read by Marieke van Schoonhoven
Sound Design by Jane Alice Liu

Read our full article: What is the 'true cost' of food?

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Reconnect to the origins and future of your food. FoodUnfolded is powered by EIT Food, an extended body of the EU.

This project is co-funded by the European Union.

A climate tax on food could help make our food system more sustainable, but how do farmers feel about it? Lottie Bingham spoke with Stuart Roberts, Farmer and Deputy President of the UK National Farmers Union, to see what the farming community think about implementing a climate tax on food.

Read more about climate taxes on food at www.foodunfolded.co/climate-tax

Podcast by Lottie Bingham.

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In 2020, the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change released a report containing recommendations for a tax on foods based on their environmental impact. Lottie Bingham speaks with Dr Marco Springmann, a senior researcher in population health at Oxford University, to learn more about what a climate tax on food would mean for our food habits, and the environment.

Podcast by Lottie Bingham.

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