Jean-Philippe Laborde

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.