Really insightful and accessible podcast looking at the complex and interconnected relationships between food production, the environment, innovation and businesses. Looking forward to the next episode! 

Brilliant - an excellent overview of the issues faced by agriculture in the 2020s.  Well curated and insightful - thank you so much, I will be recommending!

Episode 1 of 6 – Why do we need AgTech?

The global food system faces serious problems – environmental, social and commercial.  This six-part podcast series seeks to unravel these complex interrelationships asking how we can better align the interests of the environment, farmers, entrepreneurs and investors, allowing new Agtech solutions to address these critical challenges.

In this episode, we explore why new technology is needed in agriculture … and when it is not.  

We ask where and how new technologies will help with some of agriculture’s biggest challenges including: longstanding labour shortages and widespread issues of poor working conditions; why and how the food system makes up 1/3rd of greenhouse gas emissions; biodiversity loss and land use change; and how poor farmer profitability exacerbates the sector’s capacity to respond to these challenges.  

Featured in this Episode 
•	Juliet Ansell, Zespri International
•	Sarah Mock, Author 
•	Brent Loken, WWF
•	Francesco Tubello, FAO
•	Ethan Cleary, Irish Farmers Association

Further Reading 
The following resources are those I found helpful or were recommended by my interviewees 
Books  - available from https://www.betterworldbooks.com
•	The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
•	Hog Wild by Lynn Waltz 
•	Farm and Other F Words by Sarah Mock
•	Freedom Farmers by LaDonna Redmond & Monica M White
•	Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
•	How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates

Online Reports 
•	Bringing it Down to Earth – Nature Risk and Agriculture https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?2660466/nature-finance-risk-and-agriculture
•	Milked by the Immigrant Dary Farmworkers in New York State 
http://www.iwj.org/resources/milked-immigrant-dairy-farmworkers-in-new-york-state

Epsiode 1 Innovating AgTech - Why Do We Need AgTech?

The role of technology, entrepreneurs & investment in Agriculture’s biggest problems.  

This podcast documentary by AgTech expert Hannah Senior asks what role technology plays in agriculture, how entrepreneurship influences innovation, and what it feels like to be part of the current AgTech explosion both as a farmer and as an entrepreneur.  

Exploring how the investment models we use affects the outcomes we see, Hannah  shows why systems thinking is uniquely important in the AgTech ecosystem ... and asks challenging questions about the many things we take for granted.

Easily digestible, wide ranging in scope, and highly thought provoking, Innovating AgTech examines the stories we tell ourselves about making a positive impact, and challenges us to imagine how we can do things even better.

Generously sponsored by the Elizabeth Creak Charitable Trust.

Epsiode 1 Innovating AgTech - Why Do We Need AgTech?

Innovating AgTech

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