First Aired: 17/08/20091 Season

The Future of Food

Series Overview

George Alagiah travels the world to reveal a growing global food crisis that could affect the planet in the years ahead. With food riots on three continents recently, and unprecedented competition for food due to population growth and changing diets, the series alerts viewers to a looming problem and looks for solutions.

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Episodes & Seasons

1 Season • 3 Episodes

Air Date Window

2009 – Present

Premiered: 17/08/2009

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Latest Aired Episode

Aired: 31/08/2009

Season 1, Episode 3: “Cuba”

From the two women working to make their Yorkshire market town self-sufficient to the academic who claims it could be better for the environment to ship in lamb from New Zealand, George meets the people who believe they know how we should feed the world as demand doubles by the middle of the century. He also heads out to Havana to find out how they are growing half of their fruit and vegetables right in the heart of the city, investigates the 'land-grabs' trend - where rich countries lease or buy up the land used by poor farmers in Africa - and meets the Indian agriculturalists who have almost trebled their yields over the course of a decade.