The Sh*t Show: how can we engineer robust food systems?

Send us Fan MailThere’s a lot going on in the news as always, but at least it didn’t feel like World War III was going to start this week! But a lot still happened, with Thailand's constitutional court suspending Prime Minister Shinawatra, Trumps ‘big beautiful’ bill passing its next stage (but what does it really mean for the global economy?), and the extreme ‘heat dome’ which was sitting over North America moving over Europe, with heat deaths reported, and European countries recording the hottest June temperatures on record.Meanwhile Downunder, people living along the NSW Coast have been hunkering down for a ‘Bomb Cyclone’, massive floods have hit from Italy to the Himalayas, and Japan is bracing for a megaquake, as a decades-old manga prediction by reclusive artist Ryo Tatsuki is due Saturday, 5th July 2025. The biggest news, you probably didn’t hear, is happening in the great Southern Ocean - should we be concerned?Amid all the climate calamities, one of the most important risks we face is - how do we ensure our food supply? A regular topic on the show, because future forecasts are dire and the risks closer than most people acknowledge, so we are delighted to welcome Kristof Hayes as our special guest this week. Kristof is the founder of listt.io, where he is working on appropriate technology solutions for nature friendly farming, and he’s an entrepreneurial engineer with a technical background in electronics, control systems, automation, robotics and IoT. Today, he is focused on contributing to projects where sustainability and technology meet, building prototypes to demonstrate business value early, then scaling fast.We’ll get a glimpse into Groundswell 2025, a UK festival of regenerative agriculture, how we can engineer robust food systems and why this might look different to what we currently know or do at scale today, we’ll talk about rural regeneration which is transforming farms into more diverse enterprises, BUT also challenging the question of who can be a farmer, and we’ll get down to the dollars and investments required, as well as how young entrepreneurs can enter this space and thrive at nature's pace.Come and join us Friday 4th July 2025, 8am UK, 9am EU, 2pm TH, 3pm SG, 5pm AEST. Streaming across various locations. The Sh*t Show is a Livestream happening every Friday, where Andrea T Edwards, Dr. David Ko, Richard Busellato and Joe Augustin, as well as special guests, discuss the world’s most pressing issues across all angles of the polycrisis, working to make sense of the extremely challenging and complex times we are all going through, plus what we can do about it. Help us move the needle so we can change the name of the show to something more genteel when (or if) it is no longer a sh*t show. #TheShitShow #UncommonCourageYou can find me Andrea T Edwards | The Digital Conversationalist and Welcome - Uncommon Courage - An Invitation. My book Uncommon Courage, an invitation, is here https://mybook.to/UncommonCourage My book 18 Steps to an All-Star LinkedIn Profile, is here https://mybook.to/18stepstoanallstar