Food for Thought

Name: Food for Thought
Genre: Reality
Released: 2024-04-08
Rating: 8.0

Overview

Where does our food come from? Where is it going? What route does it take from production to our plate? Photographer and filmmaker Kadir van Lohuizen searches for the world behind the food on our plates and brings into focus what often remains outside our field of view.

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Episodes

S01E01 United States - New Cowboys

April 8, 2024 36 min

If any country is being hit hard by the climate crisis, it is the US. Droughts, floods, forest fires and hurricanes are increasingly causing crop failures. New high-tech ways of growing vegetables are being tried...

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S01E02 China - Behind the wall

April 15, 2024 35 min

How will the People's Republic provide food for its 1.4 billion inhabitants in the near future? China is at the forefront of agricultural research and development, such as artificial intelligence, but also seed breeding to...

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S01E03 Kenya - The vegetable garden of Europe

April 22, 2024 35 min

A lot of food arrives from Kenya every day: green beans, pak choi, sugar snap peas, basil, mangoes and cauliflower. Many of these products are grown specifically for export. Why are so many vegetables imported...

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S01E04 Saudi Arabia and UAE - Cows in the desert

April 29, 2024 36 min

How do the United Arab Emirates and neighboring Saudi Arabia try to become self-sufficient with a shortage of fresh water and a lack of fertile agricultural land? Mega greenhouses, dairies and poultry factories are located...

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