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Now, its all very well having tasty stuff to eat but in terms of the climate, how our food is produced is key. and our very ownjen copestake is in a greenhouse for us. jen. yes, im here in the norwich greenhouse and it looks completely different than it did on my last visit. its absolutely filled with plants now. there are 378,000 tomato plants here, and that represents 5% of the uks consumption of tomatoes. last year, we saw this world—first project being built using an environmentally friend...

And our very ownjen copestake is in a greenhouse for us. jen. yes, im here in the norwich greenhouse and it looks completely different than it did on my last visit. its absolutely filled with plants now. there are 378,000 tomato plants here, and that represents 5% of the uks consumption of tomatoes. last year, we saw this world—first project being built using an environmentally friendly heating system. a typical greenhouse would burn fossil fuels to create the heat that you need to go through ...

In a low—carbon way — you just need to be near a waste heat source and there are plenty of those around the world. thanks, jen. of course, once our crops have been harvested, they need to be stored safely so they dont spoil. an estimated 630 million tonnes of grain goes bad each year, which is such a waste. well, doctor lorenzo conti thinks he might have a solution. doctor lorenzo, what is it? what we have developed, lara, is the worlds first subterranean drone and were using it specifically...

Now that the weather has been changing, we no longer receive rainfall, the crops are dying in the gardens. last season i planted two full acres of beans, but i did not harvest anything because there was no rain. and many others are facing the same problem. in november, the eyes of the world were here on scotland, when glasgow hosted cop26, the latest major summit to tackle climate change, amid warnings that time is running out to limit global temperature rise. hearing no objections, it is so dec...

Clear steer from the public on the back of covid and we should be building in the resilience so it is a very vague aspiration but i worry about whether it is really taking farmers with the government on this journey and dont forget, 50% of farmers in the country, pharmacy do not own the land, its very unclear as to what it looks like for them. take a farmer who is looking at their income over the next few days and planning ahead, and they are being asked perhaps to convert some of this land that...

Its from the leftover ends of loaves which the sandwich otherwise chucks in the bin. fair enough. ok, but the booze industry is responsible for a lot of emissions, isnt it? they grow the crops, they add the water, they package it, they heat up, they cool it down again. at least british breweries are focusing on the issue. total co2 emissions from it have almost halved over the past decade. crumbs! which this doesnt taste like, so fair enough. oh, but i do have something else special for you to t...

All through this deal of this pandemic of covid, farmers and rampers continue to produce. we go to work every day. we produce crops, we produce livestock, poultry and so the product is out there in the country side and if there are supply chain issues, they happened after it leaves the farm and thats one thing we are going to continue to do is continue to produce. thats what our ranchers, thats what we do, is continue on ensuring that this -- that the united states has a safe and affordable supp...

Oh, wow. so we keep a buffer above the top of the greenhouse so we can control the atmosphere and the climate within here. and more produce is growing in a greenhouse just next door using the same green technology. how many cucumbers are you growing in the other greenhouse? the other greenhouse here is 14 million cucumbers. 14 million?! 22 million peppers. 22 million peppers?! i dont know how many tons of tomatoes, but a lot. its done better than wed anticipated in its first year, if im honest. ...

Get back to a normal experience in the grocery stores? what are the factors other than the labor shortage. how much does omicron play a part in this, how much does shipping play a part in this, how much does severe weather play a part in this, thats something were watching today. >> well, youre hitting all of the key points. whats driving up prices and shortages is certainly climate change. if we look at what went on a few months ago with the wildfires in the northwest, that destroyed a lot of c...

We wore last time have been replaced by coveralls to protect the crops from bringing in external bugs and viruses. workers here have their clothes cleaned on site. and how many people are working here now? because when i came before, there was nobody. yeah, so we have about 50 people currently working in here on picking. so these tomatoes are going out to the shops? yes, yeah, theyre being picked, ready to be packed and youll see them in the supermarket soon. and we see different varieties of to...