How can the food industry help make sustainable diets mainstream?

22-08-19 Podcast / The Big Issues

22-08-19 Podcast / The Big Issues

How can the food industry help make sustainable diets mainstream?

What makes a diet sustainable? How can the food industry encourage diets that are sustainable? What scientific, economic and social factors have prevented these diets becoming mainstream already?

Professor Charles Godfray, Director, Oxford Martin School and Lead Researcher of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food answers these questions in the latest Table Talk Podcast. His expertise provides an insight into the changes that will be needed to make sustainability the norm.

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