George Monbiot on our fragile food system – podcast

The Guardian columnist speaks about why we need to tackle global food insecurity “There are lots of different components to food security,” the Guardian columnist George Monbiot tells Nosheen Iqbal. “If you are totally dependent on the production within your own borders, well, one bad harvest can throw you into insecurity. “So, a large part of our national food security, and this applies to many countries around the world, is now highly dependent on global trade. It means that if you have har...

By Presented by Nosheen Iqbal with George Monbiot; produced by Natalie Ktena, Tom Glasser, George Francis Lee and Rudi Zygadlo; the executive producer is Elizabeth Cassin