On this occasion I had the privilege to talk with Dr. Kent Mullinix, expert in Agriculture and Food Systems, some of the topics we cover were:

- Why are we talking about Food Systems?

- What was before we called it a System.

- What it was like to grow and exchange food for thousands of years.

- How the industrial revolution changed the way we grow our food.

- What impact the globalisation of our economy has had in the way we grow our food.

- Our loss of connection with seasonality, with place.

- The price to pay to eat what we want, as much as we want to, whenever we want to.

- The incredible importance of soil and how bad we treat it.

- The role of technology to solve the problems we cause and its ethics.

- Synthetic fertilisers and how they affect soil microbiota, the carbon cycle and oceans.

- What is it and why regenerative agriculture is so important for the future.

- Water usage in agriculture and its growing scarcity.

- The lack of farmers, today and going into the future!

- Agroecological methods to include introduction of animals in agriculture.

- How it seems to be a link between how we produce food and its decaying nutrient value.

- The troubling disappearance of insects.

- What is the ultimate purpose of agriculture?

- Food production should be aligned with place, with bio regions.

- The interest of young people for agriculture focused on community, rebuilding and ecologically sound community.

- What a sustainable food production future could look like.

Ecological Economics - Dr. Ellie Perkins