Horizon debate: Is technology a force for good in environmentally sustainable food production?
The best bits from the first of three live debates exploring the controversial questions about the future of land, the environment and food.
In this episode: Is technology a force for good in environmentally sustainable food production? Or could it do more harm than good? And what are the wider social and ethical implications?
Panel:
- Simon Blackmore, head of robotics, Harper Adams University
- Helen Browning, chief executive, Soil Association
- Robin Grove-White, professor emeritus of environment and society, Lancaster University
- Alastair Cooper, organic farmer and senior investment director at ADM Capital
Chaired by Christine Tacon, the UK's groceries code adjudicator and former managing director of Co-operative Farms.
Music by Podington Bear used under Creative Commons licence.