New Food Order

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New Food Order is a podcast exploring the business of tackling our climate and social crises through food & agriculture Through nuanced conversation and debate, we’re embarking on a learning and unlearning journey to unearth how we might design business and finance to have maximum positive impact for people and our planet. We speak with leading farmers, entrepreneurs, execs, investors, and other stewards on key topics like:
• Will plant-based, lab-grown meat, and regenerative agriculture save the world?
• Is carbon neutral enough?
• What are the most people and planet friendly business and finance models?
• How might we best honor and learn from indigenous communities?
• How might we avoid the unintended consequences of new innovation?

New Food Order is hosted is brought to you by AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect. The hosts are Danielle Gould and Louisa Burwood-Taylor.

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What is the Future of Plant-Based Alternatives in a New Food Order?

Apr 04 2023 82 mins

Plant-based meat and dairy alternatives may have exploded onto the food scene in recent years but the hype is catching up, consumer sales have been lackluster and investors are turning away. Questions have emerged about whether plant-based alternatives are the climate solution they claim to be, or an ethical choice throughout their supply chains. Are they even taking the right appr

Moving Beyond Carbon Neutrality in Food & Ag

Mar 21 2023 93 mins

Hardly a month has gone by in the past two years without a large food or agriculture corporate announcing a pledge to go carbon neutral by some future date. Given the food and agriculture industries contribute over a third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, these commitments are certainly welcome. But as we increasingly learn about the industry’s potential to be a solutio

How Might We Better Support Farmers in their Transition to Regenerative Agriculture?

Mar 14 2023 88 mins

There’s enormous potential for agriculture to help reverse climate change through its potential to sequester carbon from the atmosphere. But are we asking farmers too much? Already laden with debt and the pressure to produce more with less, how might we support already cash-strapped and stressed farmers in their transition to regenerative agriculture? Should it be their responsib

Defining and Scaling Regenerative Agriculture

Mar 07 2023 87 mins

Regenerative agriculture has become a buzzword in the food world, but there is actually no formal definition of it. Broadly it means a set of practices that aim to improve land while cultivating crops and livestock, instead of depleting it like industrial practices often do. But it means so much more than that to many and is wider-ranging than its potential to sequester carbon from

What is the Role of Biotech in an Ethical Food System?

Feb 28 2023 97 mins

New frontiers in biotechnology and fermentation are being deployed to reduce the environmental impact of our animal-based food system. But do developments in cellular agriculture, fermentation, and biotech foods – for the creation of meat and dairy analogues – take ethics into account? In this week’s episode, we speak with four leading thinkers in the industry about how we mi

Revitalizing Pre-Colonial Indigenous Food Systems with Chef Sean Sherman

Feb 21 2023 45 mins

Do we need to design a US food system without European influences? What can we learn from indigenous peoples to ensure food sovereignty and reverse our climate crisis? This week, we discuss this and more with Oglala Lakota Sioux chef, entrepreneur, author, and speaker Sean Sherman. Sean is the founder of "The Sioux Chef," a catering company and food education business committed to

Regenerative Product Design with Ethan Soloviev

Feb 14 2023 52 mins

Regenerative has become a buzzword, with companies big and small making commitments to launch regenerative products. But what does regenerative product design actually look like? And how do we measure the impacts of product design and ingredient choices on people and our planet? This week, we discuss this and more with Ethan Soloviev, farmer and chief innovation officer at HowGood

Designing Better Plant-Based and Alternative Proteins with Sonalie Figueiras

Feb 07 2023 50 mins

How might we design plant-based, cultivated meat, and precision fermented alternative proteins in the most people and planet friendly ways? In our second design episode, we speak with Sonalie Figueiras, a Hong Kong-based social entrepreneur and founder and the Editor in Chief of Green Queen, a sustainability and impact media platform that educates millions of readers on the connect

Debating Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet with John Fullerton & Manuel Gonzalez

Jan 31 2023 57 mins

Is exponential growth possible on a finite planet? How might we balance growth and profit with maximum social and ecological benefit? This is a huge topic that we’re just beginning to scratch the surface of. In today’s bonus finance episode, we share two differing viewpoints on growth from regenerative economics pioneer John Fullerton and venture capitalist Manuel Gonzalez. We

Investigating Alternative Business Models in Food & Ag

Jan 24 2023 85 mins

The food and agriculture industries are major contributors to today’s social and environmental crises. Companies across all industries are being forced to rethink the way they do business, and food and agriculture are no exception. Businesses big and small want to do better and become more resilient, but how? In this episode, we take you on a journey through a few existing and em