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Apr 2023
28m 57s

Table for 10 billion, please

Vox
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Feeding the world’s growing population is an increasingly difficult challenge, and climate change won’t make it any easier. Vox’s Kenny Torrella visited the Netherlands, a small country with big ideas about the future of food, to find out more about how the country is approaching the problem. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, ... Show More
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