Jacob Klein
Deputy chair of the Food Studies Centre at SOAS, University of London, who researches food policy and discussed China's potato promotion campaign.
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Jan 16, 2025 • 30min
Should we eat less rice?
Jacob Klein, anthropologist at SOAS who studies food policy and cultural diets; Jean-Philippe Laborde, managing director at Tilda running sustainability field trials; Yvonne Pinto, head of IRRI breeding resilient rice. They discuss rice’s climate vulnerabilities and methane problem. They cover breeding resilient varieties, alternate wetting and drying trials, and attempts to shift diets toward potatoes in China and Bangladesh.
