03 - Making Leaders Act on Food

We meet Dr. Sonja Vermeulen, Marine Biologist Christine Figgener and System Thinker Jeremy Oppenheim to discuss how our food system can save what's left of biodiversity

We need to half our food waste and loss in order to create a healthy and sustainable food system. We meet up with Zero Waste entrepreneurs Lauren Singer, Joost Bakker and Emilie Vanpoperinghe to discuss solutions.

How can we produce healthy food sustainability for a growing population? The technician behind the first slaughter-free burger, Peter Verstrate, founder of Local Dirt, Heather Hilleren and food scientist Prof. Jessica Fanzo brings solutions to the table.

Twins and social media stars Stephen and David Flynn started the Happy Pear to inspire people to eat more vegetables. What can we learn from their way of living?

Former advertising executive Dan Parker spent two decades working with ‘big food’ corporations – until obesity-related type 2 diabetes made him change direction. Together with Food Policy Professor Tim Lang, they discuss who should lead change; politicians, businesses or consumers?

Culinary entrepreneurs Claus Meyer and Alice Zaslavsky are driving the movement of veggies forward. In this episode, they give their best advise on to make plants the new stars in the kitchen.

What is the planetary health diet and how will it benefit both people and planet? In the first episode of the Let's Rethink Food podcast, our hosts Dr. Sandro Demaio and Dr. Hazel Wallace meets up with the leading scientists and co-chairs of the EAT-Lancet Commission: Prof. Walter Willett and Prof. Johan Rockstrøm.

On the eve of the global EAT-Lancet Commission launch, our hosts Dr. Sandro Demaio and Dr. Hazel Wallace go behind the scenes to meet Dr. Gunhild Stordalen. She initiated this groundbreaking journey when she discovered that science had no clear answer to a seemingly simple question – with huge implications for our common future.