The Science Behind Your Salad

The Science Behind Your Salad shines a spotlight on the innovation, technology, digital and sustainability for healthy food made by BASF in Agriculture.

The Science Behind Your Salad is a science podcast hosted by BASF Agricultural Solutions, with 33 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 81. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

BASF Agricultural Solutions hosts The Science Behind Your Salad, a science show with 33 episodes published.

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  Farming the River’s Edge: Food, wine and biodiversity on Portugal’s Floodplains

  May 26, 202633 minS0

  <p>On the floodplains between the Tagus and Sorraia rivers, just outside Lisbon, lies one of Portugal’s most remarkable agricultural landscapes, Companhia das Lezírias. </p> <p>In this episode of The Science Behind your Salad, Jane Craigie steps into a living, breathing system where cork oak forests, rice paddies, grazing cattle, and vineyards coexist, shaped by centuries of stewardship and increasingly by the demands of a changing climate. </p> <p>From the kitchen of estate chef Pedro Samora - where local ingredients tell stories of heritage and community - to the rice fields that define Portugal’s deep cultura...

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  Episode #31

  From Roadside to Runway: How Kenya Feeds Itself… and the World

  Feb 20, 202634 minS1

  <p>Before sunrise in central Kenya, green beans are packed for European supermarkets while, on the same morning, women carry leafy greens to sell by the roadside. In this episode, Jane Craigie explores Kenya’s dual food systems — one feeding global markets with precision and scale, the other sustaining families through informal trade and smallholder farming. From women-led coffee cooperatives and honey producers in Baringo County to vast flower farms exporting hundreds of tons daily, we examine how agriculture underpins Kenya’s economy and livelihoods. As exports grow and sustainability pressures mount, the question emerges: how can Kenya continue to feed t...

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  Episode #30

  The Next Billion Plates: World Food Prize Conversations

  Dec 15, 202534 minS1

  <p>In this special episode of The Science Behind Your Salad, we take you inside the World Food Prize and the Borlaug Dialogue, the gathering inspired by the grandfather of the Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug’s and his inherent belief that hunger is a challenge humanity can solve.</p> <p>Recorded in Iowa, the episode brings together voices shaping the future of food. Jeannie Borlaug Laube reflects on her father’s legacy from his childhood farm. Rattan Lal reminds us why healthy soils still anchor global food security, while Cary Fowler offers the long view on safeguarding crop diversity. Paul Templ...

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  Episode #29

  The Future of Food

  Oct 2, 202527 minS1

  <p>Food is also what connects farming to human health and our natural environment. In this episode of The Science Behind Your Salad, we ask you to close your eyes and listen: the steady hum of bees, the deep boom of a rare bittern, and the people creating the future of the food on your plate. </p> <p>Host, Jane Craigie, visits the rice fields of Australia, where a grower and an ecologist are working side by side to create habitat for endangered birds while producing food and managing limited access to irrigation water. We hear from a nutritionist about h...

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  Episode #28

  Celebrating Farmers

  Jul 7, 202522 minS1

  <p>Social media has given farmers the perfect way to share the many joys, challenges and the daily realities of farming with people interested in how their food is produced.  </p> <p>A growing number of influencers have gained millions of followers who welcome their regular and honest posts and the insights the content gives into their lives.  </p> <p>Many say that they started sharing their stories to play a part in developing society’s interest in food production, land management and in appreciating the trade-offs that are a daily part of profitable and compliant agriculture.  </p> <p>In this epi...

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