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Business Daily: The Business of Food

25/02/2014

The Business of Food

BBC World Service - Business Daily, The Business of Food

World agriculture, climate change and the challenges of feeding our growing population

World agriculture and the challenges and opportunities presented by our growing population and changing climate.

The population is rising, weather patterns are changing - does that mean the word is going to struggle to feed itself? Or, is there actually already more than enough food to go round? Is the real problem that so many people around the world can't afford food? 

We hear from two titans of the world food industry - Justin King, the boss of one of Britain's biggest supermarket chains, Tesco -  and Jim Rogers, an investor with huge stakes in agriculture around the world. We also speak to agricultural ecologist, Sir Gordon Conway, the author of One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?, and a budding entrepreneur from Nigeria, Affi Williams, who runs a dried fruit business in Lagos.

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