Episode 5: Land Agriculture
16m | May 24, 2021This episode is all about food!! Learn about Mono or polyculture farming, the soil your food come from, Pesticides, Food waste, and more! What really gets your dinner on the table, and how can YOUR impacts save the world?
Sources and Further reading:
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/History_of_agriculture
https://www.forigo.it/en/news/what-is-plowing https://simplicable.com/new/monoculture-vs-polyculture#:~:text=Monoculture%20is%20the%20production%20of,livestock%20species%20or%20agricultural%20product.&text=Polyculture%20is%20the%20production%20of,forest%20farming%20and%20beneficial%20weeds.
https://greentumble.com/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-monoculture-farming/
https://gardenerdy.com/pros-cons-of-polyculture-farming/ https://sustainability.tufts.edu/wp-content/uploads/Decoding-Food-Labels.pdf https://you.stonybrook.edu/environment/sustainable-vs-conventional-agriculture/ https://foodprint.org/issues/the-problem-of-food-waste/
https://toogoodtogo.org/en/movement/knowledge/what-is-food-waste
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/sustainability/food-waste/