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EPISODE · Feb 27, 2025 · 27 MIN

How do we feed 8 billion people? With Assoc. Prof. Douglas Bardsley

from Steering Sustainability · host Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources

It can be overwhelming to think about feeding eight billion people. But in our current food system, choices in one place can influence lives around the world. So what can we collectively do to make sure that people everywhere have access to fresh and healthy food? In this episode, we talk to Associate Professor Douglas Bardsley, a fellow human geographer from the University of Adelaide. Drawing on his extensive research on environmental and agricultural risk management, Doug shares his insights into experiences of food insecurity in different contexts, the challenges that climate change poses to human and environmental stability and the importance of thinking of food as a human right. Learn More Doug’s research profile: https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/douglas.bardsley Doug’s recommendations: Ulrich Beck: “Living in and coping with world risk society” Ulrich Beck: “Climate for change, or how to create a green modernity?” Vandana Shiva: “Solutions to the food and ecological crisis facing us today” Vandana Shiva: “The Violence of the Green Revolution: Science and Politics of the Green Revolution” Douglas Bardsley: “Climate change threatens to cause ‘synchronised harvest failures’ across the globe, with implications for Australia’s food security” Douglas Bardsley: “Risk alleviation via in situ agrobiodiversity conservation: drawing from experiences in Switzerland, Turkey and Nepal” Douglass Bardsley & Andrea Knierim: “Hegel, Beck and the reconceptualization of ecological risk: The example of Australian agriculture” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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