Podcast Outline
Introduction (0:00)
Introduction section: Big ideas
a. What first drew you studying food systems and climate change? (0:50)
b. Is that what first drew you to the topic? (2:22)
c. What were the main goals of your research? (3:34)
d. So Malthus, a lot of people think that he was wrong. Do you think that is changing now with climate change (5:02)
e. How do you typically conduct your analysis? (7:23)
a. How do our diets affect climate change? (8:35)
b. What is a ruminant and non-ruminant animal? (10:42)
c. And so which one is worse for the environment, the cows and the goats? (11:01)
d. How will our changing diets affect the climate in the future? (11:05)
e. So there have been some movements lately, for example vegetarianism and veganism seem to be ever more popular, did you see anything like that in your results or data? (12:28)
f. What is food waste and how do you measure food waste?? (16:24)
g. How do you measure food waste? (17:32)
h. Where do people waste the most food? (19:43)
i. Why do you think that is-do you get wealthier and you can just afford to throw out more food or are you buying different food that goes bad faster? (21:04)
j. What is a yield gap? Why does it matter in the context of climate change? (21:59)
k. How would we improve the yield gap? (24:12)
l. Climate change, from my understanding at least, we can expect even less predictable weather even more diseases in crops-do you think it will make it even harder to decrease the yield gap in the future? (25:57)
m. Which countries have the biggest yield gap? (26:45)
a. Why do you think that understanding the relationship between food systems and climate change is important? (27:09)
b. What can the public do to address some of these problems? (27:46)
c. Is it better to eat local meat or vegetables from far away? (29:59)
d. What types of policies would you recommend to deal with these issues? (30:55)
What to know more about Prajal’s work? Check out the links below:
Pradhan, Prajal, Dominik E. Reusser, and Juergen P. Kropp. "Embodied greenhouse gas emissions in diets." PloS one 8.5 (2013): e62228. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0062228
Pradhan, Prajal, et al. "Embodied crop calories in animal products." Environmental Research Letters 8.4 (2013): 044044. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044044/meta
Pradhan, Prajal, et al. "Food self-sufficiency across scales: How local can we go?." Environmental science & technology 48.16 (2014): 9463-9470. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es5005939
Pradhan, Prajal, et al. "Closing yield gaps: How sustainable can we be?." PloS one 10.6 (2015): e0129487. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0129487
Hiç, Ceren, et al. "Food surplus and its climate burdens." Environmental science & technology 50.8 (2016): 4269-4277. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.5b05088