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The Science Behind Your Salad shines a spotlight on the innovation, technology, digital and sustainability for healthy food made by BASF in Agriculture.
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- Farming the River’s Edge: Food, wine and biodiversity on Portugal’s Floodplains · 33 minOn the floodplains between the Tagus and Sorraia rivers, just outside Lisbon, lies one of Portugal’s most remarkable agricultural landscapes, Companhia das Lezírias. In this…
- From Roadside to Runway: How Kenya Feeds Itself… and the World · 34 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 31Before sunrise in central Kenya, green beans are packed for European supermarkets while, on the same morning, women carry leafy greens to sell by the roadside. In this episode…
- The Next Billion Plates: World Food Prize Conversations · 34 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 30In this special episode of The Science Behind Your Salad, we take you inside the World Food Prize and the Borlaug Dialogue, the gathering inspired by the grandfather of the Green…
- The Future of Food · 27 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 29Food is also what connects farming to human health and our natural environment. In this episode of The Science Behind Your Salad, we ask you to close your eyes and listen: the…
- Celebrating Farmers · 22 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 28Social media has given farmers the perfect way to share the many joys, challenges and the daily realities of farming with people interested in how their food is produced. A…
- Feeding the Future · 35 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 27Feeding humanity in the future brings a complex set of interconnected challenges. What’s abundantly clear is that, over the coming decades, farming isn’t just about producing…
- The Impact of Climate Change on Olives · 38 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 26This episode of The Science Behind Your Salad from BASF visits Spain, Portugal and Egypt in a quest to discover how olive crops will be affected by climate change. Jane Craigie…
- Carbon conscious cooking for the future · 32 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 25Our volatile climate will impact the way we cook and the way we eat. And so, farming needs to adapt, eating needs to adapt, and how we cook, will also need to adapt. In this…
- Food Safety · 31 minWhether we’re buying a punnet of fruit, a freshly made burrito or a can of tomatoes, we take it for granted that the food is safe and free of any biological or chemical…
- Sustainable Cereals · 39 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 23There is a huge variety of grains, from quinoa to spelt, from bulgur wheat to pearl barley, from barley to rye. Barley used to feed livestock and used in whisky distilling are…
- Water security · 36 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 22The wettest country in the world is Columbia, which receives over 3200 ml of rain annually and the driest nation, Egypt, receives just 18 ml. Agriculture uses around 70% of the…
- Coffee · 41 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 21More than 3 billion cups of coffee are drunk every day but how did the bean inside a fruit become synonymous with kick starting our mornings with a caffeine hit to wake us up?…
- Weeds · 33 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 20Weeds are plants that are growing in the wrong place. Certain species can totally devastate farmers crops, resulting in huge losses of both productivity and income for the…
- Sustainable Agriculture · 38 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 19Improving the sustainability of agriculture extends far beyond the production of food, as farmers share the global challenges of climate change mitigation, increasing space for…
- Fruit · 29 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 18Sweet and juicy, plump and delicious: In this episode of The Science Behind Your Salad we’re telling the story behind the production and innovation of fruit salad! Apples…
- Food Loss and Food Waste · 33 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 17If food waste could be represented as its own country, it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter, behind China and the United States, according to the UN's environment…
- Vegetables · 35 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 16Vegetables are at the heart of a healthy diet. They are packed with vitamins and minerals and play an essential role in our physical and mental well-being. The global vegetable…
- Wine Grapes · 33 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 15The first traces of wine production date back some 9,000 years to parts of the Middle East. Georgia is known for making some of the earliest wines by burying Kvevris, giant…
- Holiday Bonus Episode: Celebrate Grapes · 27 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 14In this bonus episode, we’ll explore the meaning of grapes from a seasonal perspective. During the holidays, grapes play an important role – both in liquid and solid form. We…
- Onions · 37 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 13Loved by Ernest Hemingway in a sandwich, around 4.5 milliion tonnes of onions are grown globally each year. While Hemingway ate his onions raw, the vegetable is truly versatile…
