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The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.

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    Why does Africa import a lot of food?

    Thu 8 Dec 2022

    We speak to food entrepreneurs about how Africa can be more self sufficient

  • Eggonomics

    Thu 1 Dec 2022

    Egg prices are rising 鈥� is avian flu to blame?

  • Samuel Ikua: Global Youth Champion 2022

    Thu 24 Nov 2022

    This year鈥檚 award winner and his mission to get people farming in the city

  • Food as rehabilitation

    Thu 17 Nov 2022

    Could changing the food behind bars improve prisoner outcomes?

  • Island diets

    Thu 10 Nov 2022

    What do you eat if you live on an island?

  • The buffet business

    Thu 3 Nov 2022

    How do you make money out of them, and what happens to all the leftovers?

  • Forbidden food: The Jews of Spain

    Thu 27 Oct 2022

    The suppression of Jewish cooking under the Spanish Inquisition, and its global spread

  • What do astronauts eat?

    Thu 20 Oct 2022

    Designing a diet to keep astronauts healthy

  • Can farmers influence food prices?

    Thu 13 Oct 2022

    How rising global prices impact food production around the world

  • Inheriting grandma's pan

    Thu 6 Oct 2022

    The significance of family cookware and what we lose if we throw our old pots out

  • Who owns seeds?

    Thu 29 Sep 2022

    How four big companies came to dominate the industry

  • Food for mood

    Thu 22 Sep 2022

    Can we eat our way to happiness?

  • The flavourists

    Thu 15 Sep 2022

    Meeting the people bridging art and science to make food taste delicious

  • Inside food safety scares

    Thu 8 Sep 2022

    The people trying to stop contaminated food reaching your plate

  • Tomorrow鈥檚 food crops

    Thu 1 Sep 2022

    A changing climate means farmers need to change the crops they grow

  • Running a restaurant with your relatives

    Thu 25 Aug 2022

    One city, two cuisines, multiple family members

  • Liquid gold: The price of cooking oil

    Thu 18 Aug 2022

    What rising vegetable oil prices mean for food businesses

  • What can we do about drought?

    Thu 11 Aug 2022

    As millions of people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya face hunger, what are the solutions?

  • The food illustrators

    Thu 4 Aug 2022

    Meet the artists tasked with creating pictures that look good enough to eat

  • Fuelling a female footballer

    Thu 28 Jul 2022

    As the Women's Euros reach a climax, how much could nutrition boost performance?

  • Why use food for fuel?

    Thu 21 Jul 2022

    As food prices rise around the world, why are we turning crops into fuel?

  • In search of a food champion

    Thu 14 Jul 2022

    As we search for a new global champion, we hear from two previous award winners

  • The fungi kingdom

    Thu 7 Jul 2022

    Why fungi are important for all terrestrial life

  • Lemn Sissay: My life in five dishes

    Thu 30 Jun 2022

    Writer Lemn Sissay reflects on his life through memories of food

  • Menopause and diet

    Thu 23 Jun 2022

    Which foods could help ease your symptoms?

  • What's up with airline food?

    Thu 16 Jun 2022

    The highs and lows of in-flight dining

  • The recipe translators

    Thu 9 Jun 2022

    We speak to the people who translate recipe books into different languages

  • Shop like the Queen

    Thu 2 Jun 2022

    What does the Queen eat? We find out how you get a royal warrant

  • Feeding the imagination

    Thu 26 May 2022

    Two novelists discuss how food fuels their creativity

  • How a stoma changed my life

    Thu 19 May 2022

    Living with a stoma bag, and learning what to eat, and when

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