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The Science Behind Your Salad
Crossing the globe to discover how the best ingredients that end up on our tables are grown
The Science Behind Your Salad is an awarded podcast for the whole world. We’re not only in search of the best food on the planet, we’ll be telling the stories behind how that food is grown. We’ll hear about new technology already revolutionizing the way crops are grown and the stories of the farmers and growers striving to do the biggest jobs on Earth, putting food on our plates every day in the face of huge challenges of limited resources.
Winner Gallery
The podcast series are the winners of the following international and communication awards.
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2024 | Silver Medal in Category Best Use of Audio and Podcasts
2023 | Finalist in Category Food and Beverages
2023 | First Place Digital Media
2022 | Finalist Best Public Outreach Program
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Latest Episode: Water Security
The wettest country in the world is Columbia, which receives over 3200 ml of rain annually and the driest nation, Egypt, receives just 18 ml. Agriculture uses around 70% of the world’s freshwater, and irrigated farmland is crucial in delivering, on average, double the production of rainfed farming and 40% of the world’s total food production. Jane Craigie discovers how farmers, policymakers and land investors navigate water availability and rights, and how technology helps preserve every precious drop in times of shortage, while too much rain grinds everyday farming to a halt.
Our first guest: Renee Pye
Renee is the General Manager of the Pye Group which is incorporate of Parilla Premium Potato and Zerella Fresh the business is a leading potato, carrot and onion grower and packer in Australia. The business supply the three major supermarkets in Australia as well as major potato processors. She has been involved in a number of different areas in the business over 10 years, growing into her recent position as General Manager.
Our second guest: Jon Williams
Jon was born in Wales, high in the Welsh mountains. He had a passion for the outdoors, walking, climbing and fishing. Early on in life he had a keen interest in nature and the environment, which steered Jon in the direction of science as he was keen to understand more about the world around. In school and later on in university Jon studied sciences focused on biology. After graduating he had a drive for more and started a Masters degree in crop protection, which ultimately led to his career in agriculture. Among all Jon has been working in BASF Germany for four years and has been successfully shaping the European technical landscape. Having worked in both technical and leadership roles over 20 years plus experience in the agricultural sector, Jon entered a different phase in his career as Public and Governmental Affairs for BASF Agricultural Solutions, working closely with Governments and stakeholders to ensure and contribute to a sustainable and productive agricultural sectors.
Jon is the opionion that water plays a vital role in agriculture which has been often taken as if granted. But now due to the extreme weather conditions, water is not only a driver for sustainable agriculture but has also become one of the major challenges making life extremely unpredictable for farmers gloablly. This is why BASF Agricultural Solutions is working on water stewardship which is vital for agricultural industry ensuring sustainable agriculture and delivering food to our tables whilst protecting our waterways from unwanted inputs.
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After twenty years of creating award winning radio shows for the BBC, Fresh Air Production now make high quality podcasts for brands. Working for organisations such as Shell, WWF and Audi, they create podcasts that stand out from the crowd with broadcast-quality journalism and production. They use the intimacy and immediacy of audio to tell fascinating and powerful human stories.
Presenter – Jane Craigie
I see the world in people and their stories.
Jane is an agriculturalist, a traveller and a marketer. She lives on a smallholding in north east Scotland where she keeps livestock and grows her own fruit and vegetables.
Jane was brought up in Cyprus, India, Turkey and the UK and, aged 16, she decided agriculture was the industry she wanted to work in, and it was communicating the wonders of the industry that have always been her passion.
Jane has a science degree in agriculture, a post-graduate qualification in marketing and she is deeply involved in the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists, a membership organisation that represents journalists and communicators from 54 countries in all regions of the world.
Producer and Journalist – Martin Poyntz-Roberts
Martin has almost 20 years’ experience as a journalist and producer working on a variety of subject matters from natural history television to live news radio. He was at the helm of BBC Radio 4’s Costing The Earth series for much of his time at the BBC, produced several documentaries about President Trump and has recently carried out undercover filming for a BBC series in Malaysia. He recently won a Lovie Award for The Big Steal Podcast.
