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The Food System Needs a Radical Rethink

“Agriculture is the worst thing we've ever done to the planet,” environmental journalist and campaigner George Monbiot says on Episode 17 of Zero.

Environmental journalist George Monbiot (left) with Zero host Akshat Rathi.

Environmental journalist George Monbiot (left) with Zero host Akshat Rathi.

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Back in the 1960s, widespread famine was averted by the Green Revolution, a transfer of agricultural technology to developing countries that massively increased farming yields and lifted hundreds of millions out of hunger and poverty. At the time, the global population was just 3 billion.