Can changing farming systems and our diets improve our own health, and that of animals? How do we feed a growing population without impacting climate change? What are the tangible and actionable solutions?
These are just some of the pressing questions we will be addressing in our new podcast based on our highly readable new book, Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets: Human, Animal and Planetary Health published by Routledge.
In a series of monthly ‘long listens’ and ‘weekly ruminations’, Food for Good discusses the urgent need for change. You will hear from academics, change-makers and thought leaders across the world about the need for radical transformation of the food system making a strong case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of more plant-based diets.
You’ll hear in-depth discussions about the role of intensive agriculture along with voices from the front line of farming, food companies, radical thinking and system change.
Currently, more than 92 billion land animals are used for food, most of which are reared industrially in conditions that compromise their welfare. At the same time more than three billion people can’t afford healthy diets, two billion people are overweight or obese and more than 780 million people go hungry whilst nearly one‑third of all food produced is lost or wasted.
There is clearly something wrong with our food system but there is hope. Through joined-up thinking from leading authors, business and thinkers alike, our podcast will explore the art of the possible.
Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets: Human, Animal and Planetary Health is published by Routledge. It is available to buy in hardback and paperback. Given the importance of the content, the editors and publishers have agreed to offer an Open Access eBook which you can download on this page (https://www.routledge.com/Regenerative-Farming-and-Sustainable-Diets-Human-Animal-and-Planetary-Health/DSilva-McKenna/p/book/9781032684321)
Click here (https://www.ciwf.org.uk) for more information on Compassion in World Farming.
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United Nations Food Systems Summit: the view from Compassion
In this episode, Laura Strangeway, Head of Food Systems Transition at Compassion in World Farming Food Business (https://www.compassioninfoodbusiness.com), revisits the recent UN Food Systems Summit stock take, jointly hosted by the governments of Ethiopia and Italy.
Bringing together over 3500 participants in Addis Ababa, the aim of the summit was to assess progress and renew commitments to Food Systems Transformation.
Compassion’s CEO, Philip Lymbery, who attended the event in his capacity as a member of the UN Food Systems Advisory Group tells her why the stocktake is so important.
Further links:
Click here for UNFSS +4 Report of the Secretary-General (https://www.unfoodsystemshub.org/latest-updates/news/detail/launch-of-unfss-4-report--scaled-up-action-needed-to-transform-food-systems-by-2030/en)
Click here for UNFSS+4 Independent Stakeholders’ Report (https://www.unfoodsystemshub.org/latest-updates/news/detail/stakeholders-call-for-more-inclusive-and-accountable-food-systems-transformation-in-new-unfss-4-report/en)
Click below for FMCG CEO magazine
https://www.fmcgceo.co.uk/nature-at-the-helm/ (https://www.fmcgceo.co.uk/nature-at-the-helm/)
https://www.fmcgceo.co.uk/lead-the-change-feed-the-future/ (https://www.fmcgceo.co.uk/lead-the-change-feed-the-future/)
Click here for UNFSS closing highlights video (https://www.unfoodsystemshub.org/un-food-systems-summit-4-stocktake/en)
Click here for UNFSS Call to action (https://www.fao.org/media/docs/unfoodsystemslibraries/unfss-4/call-to-action/unfss4-call-to-action.pdf?sfvrsn=c5b579f_1)
Click here for Food of Good episod (https://open.spotify.com/episode/3842hV1wx1mx824GWTiZ08)e with Stefanos Fotiou, Director of the UN Food Systems Coordination hub on the forthcoming UNFSS+4 stocktake
Click here for Food for Good episode (https://open.spotify.com/episode/3842hV1wx1mx824GWTiZ08) on The Sustainable Development Goals – a view from Compassion on the impact industrial animal agriculture has on the UN's SDGs
Compassion's latest book, Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets: Human, Animal and Planetary Health is published by Routledge. It is available to buy in hardback and paperback. Given the importance of the content, the editors and publishers have agreed to offer an Open Access eBook which you can download on this page (https://www.routledge.com/Regenerative-Farming-and-Sustainable-Diets-Human-Animal-and-Planetary-Health/DSilva-McKenna/p/book/9781032684321)
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31 Jul 2025
Compassion Goes To Groundswell
In this month's episode of Food For Good from Compassion in World Farming Food Business, Laura Strangeway, Head of Food Systems Transition, Food Business (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-strangeway/), reflects on messages from farmers and food companies at Groundswell.
We hear thoughts from Alex Cherry (https://groundswellag.com/speakers/alex-cherry/), founder of Groundswell (https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Groundswell&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) and Helen Browning OBE (https://www.soilassociation.org/staff-bios/helen-browning-obe/), farmer and Chief Executive of The Soil Association along with other farmers on what regenerative farming means to them and their views on the challenges and drivers for change. We also hear how animal welfare fits within their regenerative journey, while Franco Fubini, founder of Natoora (https://natoora.com/en-GB/our-story/), tells us what regen means to his food business.
Compassion's latest book, Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets: Human, Animal and Planetary Health is published by Routledge. It is available to buy in hardback and paperback. Given the importance of the content, the editors and publishers have agreed to offer an Open Access eBook which you can download on this page (https://www.routledge.com/Regenerative-Farming-and-Sustainable-Diets-Human-Animal-and-Planetary-Health/DSilva-McKenna/p/book/9781032684321)
Click here (https://www.ciwf.org.uk/) for more information on Compassion in World Farming.
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27 Jun 2025
Stefanos Fotiou on the UN Food Systems Summit Stocktake
Stefanos Fotiou, Director of the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub, discusses the UN Food Systems Summit Stocktake with Laura Strangeway, Head of Food Systems Transition, exploring its impact on sustainable food systems and necessary actions, in this interview.
29 May 2025
Protein Diversification
Dr. Joanne Lunn discusses protein diversification and consumption habits with Laura Strangeway in this interview, exploring ethical and sustainable approaches to human, animal, and planetary health.
30 Apr 2025
The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare
Laura Strangeway Head of Food Systems Transition at Compassion in World Farming, Food Business (https://www.compassioninfoodbusiness.com/) is in conversation with Nicky Amos, Executive Director Business Benchmark for Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW).
With over 92 billion animals reared for food each year, most in intensive or factory farm systems, BBFAW has a crucial role in holding to account the biggest food businesses in the world. With animal welfare being an intrinsic part of a sustainable food system, Nicky Amos explains how the Business Benchmark for Farm Animal Welfare distills a complex topic into a simple tool that ranks companies across six tiers, how BBFAW assesses the world’s largest food companies and hear about company progress to reducing reliance on animal sourced foods and finally how investors use the tool to help inform their ethical decision making.
Click to the latest BBFAW webinar and the 2024 report bbfaw-2024-report.pdf (https://www.bbfaw.com/media/2190/bbfaw-2024-report.pdf)
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28 Feb 2025
Gabe Brown on Regenerative Farming
Laura Strangeway Head of Food Systems Transition at Compassion in World Farming, Food Business (https://www.compassioninfoodbusiness.com/) is in conversation with Gabe Brown, (https://understandingag.com/partners/gabe-brown/)one of the pioneers of the current soil health movement, and star of the film, Common Ground. (https://commongroundfilm.org/)
Gabe, a rancher in North Dakota, tells his story of how he started in regenerative farming, the challenges he faced and gives his thoughts on what he believes needs to happen to scale up this approach to agriculture.
To find out more about regenerative farming, read our new book Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets for human, animal and planetary health and in particular Chapter 7, Regenerative Management of agroecosystem soils to minimize extinction risks and for climate and food security by Rattan Lal.
To hear more accounts of farmers’ journeys into regenerative farming read Chapters 17, Achieving a peaceful and verdant future: A farmers’ perspective by Seth Watkins and Chapter 19, Can dairy farming be part of the solution by David Finlay. Given the importance of the content, the editors and publishers have agreed to offer an Open Access eBook which you can download on this page (https://www.routledge.com/Regenerative-Farming-and-Sustainable-Diets-Human-Animal-and-Planetary-Health/DSilva-McKenna/p/book/9781032684321)
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20 Dec 2024
The Sustainable Development Goals: A view from Compassion
Laura Strangeway explores the impact of industrial animal agriculture on the Sustainable Development Goals with Peter Stevenson, OBE, as they discuss the reasons behind the slow progress towards achieving the 2030 UN SDGs and potential solutions to accelerate progress.
29 Nov 2024
Food Systems Futures and How to Achieve Them
Laura Strangeway chats with Professor Tim Benton about the challenges of the current food system and how food companies can drive a transition to more sustainable futures.
8 Nov 2024
Ruminations: The End of the Cage Age
Amelia Legrand, Head of Research at Compassion in World Farming talks us through a new report that highlights how some European food companies are driving the shift towards cage reproduction.
Our recent undercover investigation, EU Caged Rabbit Farming in the EU, 2024 (PDF) (https://www.endthecageage.eu/media/7459469/en_eu-rabbit-investigation-report-2024_web.pdf), reveals the immense suffering of approximately 70 million rabbits still confined in cramped cages across Europe. This investigation highlights the urgent need for the European Commission to fulfill its promise of a cage ban.
Click here (https://www.endthecageage.eu/en/?_gl=1*1i1lwwb*_gcl_au*Njc2NTYyMjM1LjE3Mjk0MTc2MjM.*_ga*MTI3NTQyMTgxNi4xNzI5NDE3NjE3*_ga_RMC05PGGT7*MTczMDg3NTM0Ny42LjEuMTczMDg3NTM2Ny40MC4wLjA.) for more information on Compassion's work to end the Cage Age.
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1 Nov 2024
Ruminations: The Spotlight Report
In the first Ruminations, the bite-sized series of thoughts from Compassion in World Farming (https://www.ciwf.org.uk)that champions farm animal welfare in a future fit food system, Dan McAlpine (https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmcalpine/?originalSubdomain=uk), senior food business manager at the charity tells us about its Spotlight Report that compares UK retailer policies on broiler chicken welfare.
Click here (https://www.compassioninfoodbusiness.com/key-tools-for-success/better-chicken/spotlight-uk-retailer-policies-on-indoor-reared-fresh-chicken/) for more information on The Spotlight Report, and here for the table (https://www.compassioninfoodbusiness.com/key-tools-for-success/better-chicken/spotlight-uk-retailer-policies-on-indoor-reared-fresh-chicken/#spotlight) of current retailer compliance.
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25 Oct 2024
The Food Business Awards 2024
In this second episode of the Compassion in World Farming podcast, we head to Paris for our Food Business Awards to hear from some of the world leading food companies paving the way for a future fit food system.
Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets: Human, Animal and Planetary Health is published by Routledge. It is available to buy in hardback and paperback. Given the importance of the content, the editors and publishers have agreed to offer an Open Access eBook which you can download on this page (https://www.routledge.com/Regenerative-Farming-and-Sustainable-Diets-Human-Animal-and-Planetary-Health/DSilva-McKenna/p/book/9781032684321)
Click here (https://www.ciwf.org.uk/) for more information on Compassion in World Farming.
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11 Oct 2024
Compassion in World Farming: The Trailer
An introduction to the podcast that puts animal welfare at the heart of a future fit food system
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11 Oct 2024
A Future Fit Food System
In this first episode of our new podcast, Philip Lymbery, Global CEO at Compassion in World Farming International introduces us to some of the world’s experts on the impact our global food system has on people, planet and animals who have contributed to our latest book Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets published last month.
This hard-hitting book is believed to be a ‘first’ in bringing together leading world authors to explore the role regenerative farming and diets could have in transforming our food systems
In this first episode, we hear from Dr Vandana Shiva physicist and environmental campaigner, Olivier de Schutter UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Carl Safina, ecologist and founder of the not-for-profit Safina Centre and Stefanos Fotiou, Director of FAO Office of Sustainable Development Goals.
Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets: Human, Animal and Planetary Health is published by Routledge. It is available to buy in hardback and paperback. Given the importance of the content, the editors and publishers have agreed to offer an Open Access eBook which you can download on this page (https://www.routledge.com/Regenerative-Farming-and-Sustainable-Diets-Human-Animal-and-Planetary-Health/DSilva-McKenna/p/book/9781032684321)
Click here (https://www.ciwf.org.uk) for more information on Compassion in World Farming.
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