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ASH CLOUD

Ash Sweeting

This is series of conversations discussing global food sustainability with guests who bring a deep understanding of the environmental and cultural challenges facing our society and creative ideas on how to address them.

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87 episodes

  1. We don’t need a perfect answer. We need a reliable answer with Tom Sturgess, Methane Mitigation Ventures 49:39
  2. Profitable climate solutions for small holder farmers with Devdut Dalal Mitti Labs 48:58
  3. Government policy to address today's food system challenges with Robert Bonnie former Undersecretary of Agriculture, USDA 45:10
  4. Beef sustainability, methane, and efficiency with Tom McDonald, US Roundtable for Sustainable Beef 48:26
  5. Feed efficiency on pasture: The next frontier with Matt Beck, Texas A&M 40:43
  6. Why telling people to eat less meat will never work - and what we can do instead with Bruce Friedrich, The Good Food Institute 55:38
  7. Regenerative agriculture with Anastasia Volkova, Regrow Ag 49:53
  8. Feed efficiency and methane emissions with Ermias Kebreab, UC Davis 43:13
  9. Artificial Intelligence, the need for reliable data, and where it will have the greatest impacts on agriculture with Aidan Connolly, Agritech Capital 54:55
  10. Building a company that leverages biological complexity to improve livestock productivity with a reduced climate impact - Tom Williams Number 8 Bio 43:20
  11. Building resilient agrifood systems across conflict zones and climate stressed regions with Bram Govaerts, CIMMYT 59:09
  12. Leading US beef sustainability with Steve Wooten, Beatty Canyon Ranch 1:01:00
  13. Data driven livestock production for feed efficiency with Andrew Freshwater Clear Creek Pastoral Co. 48:56
  14. Cow feed efficiency, the greatest area of untapped potential for beef production, with Matt Wilson West Virginia University 53:54
  15. Investing in regenerative agriculture, the food system, and metabolic health with Carter Williams - iSelect Fund 51:59
  16. Breeding for profitable, efficient, locally adapted and sustainable cattle with Troy Rowan University of Tennessee 47:09
  17. Low cost, locally produced zero emissions nitrogen fertilizer with Frere Byrne PlasmaLeap Technologies 36:01
  18. Addressing the Climate, Agriculture, Landscape and Food Security Nexus through policy with Tobias Gräs Danish Agriculture and Food Council 49:31
  19. Animal health as a climate solution with Nick Wheelhouse, Edinburgh Napier Univeristy 52:17
  20. Global food security, innovation, and the investment gap with Maximo Torero UNFAO 1:03:20
  21. Creating a carbon neutral beef operation with Robert Mackenzie, Mackas Australian Black Angus Beef 55:30
  22. Building a profitable animal biotech company with Mike Seely, Native Microbials 50:49
  23. Brazil's transition from a net food importer to one of the world's leading exporters over the last 50 years with Bruno Brasil, Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock 58:53
  24. Regenerative agriculture with Jason Rowntree, Michigan State University 53:09
  25. Epigenetics with Travis Bayer, Decibel Bio 41:43
  26. Is meat a luxury that is becoming increasingly difficult to afford with Paul Behrens, Oxford University 1:05:08
  27. Building sustainable supply chains with Lamar Steiger and Neil Mellers, Ranch2Retail 56:37
  28. The link between obesity and poverty, rising obesity, and how GLP-1s are changing the game with Jack Bobo UCLA 1:03:06
  29. Sustainable Livestock Transformation Initiative with Aimable Uwizeye UNFAO 40:46
  30. Capitalizing on opportunity with Jason Strong, former Managing Director Meat and Livestock Australia 1:08:42
  31. Breeding for sustainable livestock, how genetic selection can provide significant and permanent reductions to livestock emissions with Matthew Cleveland 53:37
  32. Challenging meat politics and promoting regenerative agriculture with Sparsha Saha, Harvard University 45:55
  33. Incentivizing the least productive farmers to change with Jason Clay, World Wildlife Fund 1:02:30
  34. Irrigation is colonising fresh water with Bruce Lankford, University of East Anglia 55:38
  35. Wolves reduce vehicle deer collisions with Nick Parker Hoover Institution 1:02:02
  36. The politics and science of addressing the 2050 global demand for protein with Alison Van Eenennaam UC Davis 1:05:53
  37. Artificial intelligence is neither artificial nor intelligent? with Aidan Connolly 58:07
  38. Biosecurity with Andy Sheppard CSIRO 1:01:57
  39. Climate change and national security with Sherri Goodman - International Military Council on Climate & Security 49:52
  40. Climate related violence, a messy marriage of climate stress and poor governance with Peter Schwartzstein Environmental Journalist 48:56
  41. How the livestock methane conversation has evolved with Frank Mitloehner UC Davis 42:14
  42. Regenerative ranching with Rich Bradbury 54:46
  43. Nitrogen 2.0 with Eric Davidson University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Spark Climate Solutions, and Charles Brooke from Spark Climate Solutions 1:05:15
  44. Tripling the impact of methane reducing feed additives with decentralized AI with Yaniv Altshuler MIT and Metha AI 42:03
  45. Leading climate smart agriculture policy development and implementation with Secretary Karen Ross - California Department of Food and Agriculture 36:02
  46. Into the clear blue sky, the path to restoring our climate with Rob Jackson Stanford University 58:57
  47. Catalysing industry, community, and government to achieve Zero Net Emissions with Richard Health - Zero Net Emissions from Agriculture CRC 42:08
  48. Developing the enteric methane inhibitor Bovaer® over the last 16 years with Maik Kindermann - DSM-Firmenich 48:49
  49. Understanding of the security implications of a changing climate and how it compounds the risk of conflict with Neil Morisetti University College London and Chatham House 50:40
  50. We can live without energy, without phones, without technology but we cant live without food with Ismahane Elouafi CGIAR 51:53