interview
Revolutionising food production: ‘Similar to making wine’
Peter Rowe is part of the REACT-FIRST consortium and CEO of Deep Branch, a British carbon recycling biotechnology company. They have pioneered a process that uses microbes to convert carbon dioxide from industrial emissions and turns them into high-value proteins. This way, they aim to secure the global food system by meeting the demand for ...
Producing milk with CO2 and electricity
Milk without cows: the European Hydrocow project, funded by the European Innovation Council, aims to produce milk with carbon dioxide (CO2) and electricity, removing the cow from the process. They are working on engineering a microbe that converts CO2 and hydrogen, produced from water using electricity, into beta-lactoglobulin, a major constituent of milk. We interviewed ...
How to get more active – interview with Dr. Hidde van der Ploeg
Dr. Hidde van der Ploeg is professor of physical activity and public health at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of Amsterdam UMC (The Netherlands). According to OECD data, almost half (45%) of Europeans report that they never exercise or play sports. Could you please explain the primary reasons behind this lack of physical ...
Dr. Alexis Lion: ‘Physical inactivity is a significant issue in Europe and worldwide’
Interview with Dr. Alexis Lion, director of the Association Luxembourgeoise des Groupes Sportifs Pour Cardiaques and the Fédération Luxembourgeoise des Associations de Sport de Santé, and chair-elect of the European HEPA (Health-Enhancing Physical Activity) network. According to OECD data, almost half (45%) of Europeans report that they never exercise or play sports. Could you please ...
Risks and challenges of the agent of the lung disease Mycoplasma pneumoniae
The prevalence of this atypical lung infection agent is widely underestimated - people are often not even aware that they have it - and many antibiotics cannot effectively treat it; Mycoplasma pneumoniae outbreaks occur every few years. This winter, countries like China, Denmark, France and the Netherlands reported an increase in cases, especially in children. ...
Future of farming: adapting agriculture and food to a warming climate
Agricultural economist Hermann Lotze-Campen leads climate resilience research at the world-famous Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and he’s also a professor of sustainable land use and climate change at Humboldt University in Berlin. In this interview, he explains more about the relationships between land use, agriculture, climate and our food – and gives us a ...
Rachel Mazac: ‘The whole food system needs to change’
Rachel Mazac is a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University’s Stockholm Resilience Centre, working on food systems transformation for sustainability in a globalised context for Sweden and at the broader Nordic and EU levels. She focuses her research on the nexus of global food systems sustainability, agroecology, and diversifying foods, and has investigated future diet shifts ...
Mark Post: ‘The future of lab-grown meat is promising’
Mark Post is a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Mosa Meat, a European food technology company that grows beef directly from animal cells as well as co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Qorium which grows leather in a similar fashion. Mark Post is Professor of Sustainable Industrial Tissue Engineering at Maastricht University and has ...
