A series of four conversations in which Derek Cooper hears from people whose theories about food were ahead of their time.
2: Diet for a Small Planet
A handout on food production, written in the idealistic 1960s when she was a student in California, led to the publication of Diet for a Small
Planet - Frances Moore Lappe's first book and a best seller. The international food and development experts were then all agreed that what the world needed if we were all to be fed was more technology, better hybrid crops, more pesticides, more fertilisers. Frances Moore Lappe said that those emperors had no clothes.
Derek Cooper talked to her on a recent visit to Britain. Producer SHEILA DILLON
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)