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How food growers can think about climate change: Brent Clothier
This Climate Business
English - March 02, 2023 05:15 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBBusiness News Business News emissions environmental environmental science sustainability zero emissions Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Making sense of Auckland’s floods – Kevin Trenberth, Climate Scientist
If the rain that deluged the North Island is the ‘new normal’, how are hard-hit growers
meant to think about the future – and growing anything in the ‘normal’ way?
Vincent Heeringa spoke to Brent Clothier, chief scientist with Plant &
Food, about four ways to think about growing food in a warmer and (ironically)
drier New Zealand.
Note: this was recorded before Cyclone Gabrielle devastated Hawkes bay and Tairawhiti.