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"Our food systems are the leading driver of deforestation, the leading driver of biodiversity loss, the leading driver of fresh water use, and the leading driver of water pollution."

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0:00 Transforming our food systems
1:14 Greenhouse gas emissions from food
6:19 Increasing crop yields
7:44 Changing our diets
10:00 Calorie efficiency of animals
14:50 Vertical farming
17:30 The solutions to solve our food crisis

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About Hannah Ritchie:

Dr. Hannah Ritchie is Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the University of Oxford. She is also Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at Our World in Data. Her research appears regularly in the New York Times, The Economist, and the Financial Times, and in bestselling books including Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now. She is the author of Not the End of the World.