Future Food

Nov 09 2023 42 ep. 41 mins 262

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What will you be eating in 2050? How will it get to your table? How we grow, purchase, and eat our food is changing. New technologies and food products are playing a key role in shaping that change. In this podcast, we speak to the people driving that future, from entrepreneurs and venture capital investors, to farmers and food businesses. Welcome to Future Food!

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Investing in agrifoodtech since 2017: Astanor's Eric Archambeau reflects

Nov 09 2023 23 mins

Hello, it's me! You probably thought this podcast was dead and it kind of is, but I am back for a special episode and potentially a few more in the following months as part of a celebratory series of interviews for the 10-year anniversary of AgFunder as well as the $1bn Climate Corp acquisition by Monsanto, a deal that largely propelled the industry into being!

From What’s Your Problem?: The Quest for the Perfect Avocado

May 26 2022 25 mins

Hello Future Food listeners! Today I'm sharing a special preview of a new podcast I've been enjoying called What’s Your Problem? from Pushkin Industries. What’s Your Problem? explains the problems really smart people are trying to solve right now, from creating a drone delivery service to building a car that can truly drive itself. Jacob Goldstein, former host of Planet Money

Soylent's CEO on shift towards middle America and the future of plant-based

Oct 22 2021 35 mins

In this episode, I speak to Demir Vangelov, who’s the CEO of Soylent, the company many of you might know for making meal replacements drinks for busy entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. But the now-profitable company has shifted its target consumer towards middle America.

How 'cool' fertilizers can sequester carbon and more, with Amy Yoder

Oct 15 2021 30 mins

Before your eyes start to roll, fertilizers are cool! We wouldn't be able to eat what we do without them.

Diving deep with Sandhya Sriram on the future of cell-cultured seafood

Jun 25 2021 40 mins

AFN chief editor Louisa Burwood-Taylor talks to Sandhya Sriram, co-founder and CEO of Singaporean cell-cultured seafood startup Shiok Meats.

Future Food News Review #5: Food system cyber-attacks, Avoiding alt protein’s unintended consequences, Cashierless checkout's growth

Jun 24 2021 80 mins

Welcome to the fifth edition of the very popular Future Food News Review, with foodtech, agtech and food systems' leading journalists. This week's headlines covered the spate of cyber hacking experienced by the food sector including meatpacker JBS, the rise of cashierless checkout technology and its social impact, a deeper look at plant-based meat and dairy alternatives and their i

Future Food News Review #4: Regenerative agriculture's reckoning, Questions for cell-cultured meat, Right-wing coffee, more

May 19 2021 95 mins

Welcome to the fourth edition of the highly popular Future Food News Review, with foodtech, agtech and food systems' leading journalists. This week's headlines covered Restaurant worker exploitation and fast food's recruitment struggle, Farmworker exploitation and the dangerous journey Mexican farmworkers take each day during Covid-19, How recipe website Epicurious and high-end New

Up, up and away! Irving Fain on building Bowery's biggest vertical farm yet

May 18 2021 36 mins

There's certainly been a fair amount of hype about vertical farming over the years. And while there's still a long way to go before this ag sector becomes a true alternative to outdoor farming, it feels as if we're reaching an inflection point where sci-fi dreams are becoming reality. Bowery is a case in point.

From chemicals to soil microbes: Bayer's former CEO joins AgBiome

May 14 2021 48 mins

The pressure is on to find new ways for farmers to protect their crops from pests, disease and weeds. Not only is the environmental impact of conventional farming practices increasingly in the spotlight with consumers and lawmakers demanding change, but the number of options are running out; there's only so many chemicals you can create for the task. Step up microbes.

How do you make the world's most ambitious cheese?

May 11 2021 36 mins

This week, Swedish startup Stockeld Dreamery launched its first plant-based cheese product, the Stockeld Chunk. I spoke to cofounder and CEO Sorosh Tavakoli about the launch and did a taste test during the Zoom call.