ASH CLOUD

About ASH CLOUD

This is series of conversations discussing global food sustainability with guests who bring a deep understanding of the environmental and cultural challenges facing our society and creative ideas on how to address them.

Publisher

Ash Sweeting

Category

business · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Sept 2022

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 88 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   We don’t need a perfect answer. We need a reliable answer with Tom Sturgess, Methane Mitigation Ventures

   Consumers will pay a premium for climate-friendly red meat, but not the way you’re thinking about it. This premium is not a mark-up on any single purchase. It’s customer loyalty to the retailer selling the product. A brand with integrity keeps customers coming back, and the retailer, the real customer, captures that lifetime value. Today I am joined by Tom Sturgess, who has been involved in red meat production since 1985. Thirty years ago he moved to New Zealand and taught himself sheep and b...

2. 

   28 Sept 2026

   Profitable climate solutions for small holder farmers with Devdut Dalal Mitti Labs

   Rice feeds more people than any other crop, and it is grown in a way that is quietly expensive. Globally, a third of all groundwater extraction goes to rice farming. And because those fields sit flooded for weeks at a time, the resulting anaerobic conditions produce methane. Rice accounts for around 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions, comparable to the aviation industry, and about 12% of all methane. In India, rice covers some 40 million hectares, a quarter of the country's agricultural la...

3. 

   20 Sept 2026

   Government policy to address today's food system challenges with Robert Bonnie former Undersecretary of Agriculture, USDA

   Managing and mitigating risk runs through my whole conversation with Robert Bonnie. Since the Dust Bowl, USDA policy, the Farm Bill and especially crop insurance have given US farmers a safety net that shares the risk of growing the nation's food. But farming keeps getting riskier. Climate change, volatile input costs and commodity prices, access to labour, access to markets and geopolitical instability are all shifting more than they used to. Too often farmers and ranchers are left to carry ...

Inside a recent episode

Is meat a luxury that is becoming increasingly difficult to afford with Paul Behrens, Oxford University

Published 11 Apr 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] We were able to revert this land to potential natural vegetation. We looked at the carbon stocks before and the carbon stocks after and we found that you'll be able to double the benefits of the dietary shift. So you're shifting from foods that have a high emission intensity to foods that which have a lower emission intensity. You double that benefit again if you're able to save that land and draw down the carbon onto that land when you revert it to potential natural vegetation. And that's just a climate argument. So I mean, there's also the nature, there's also the water, there's also the soil, there's loads and loads of different benefits that you would get from that. […]

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