Series Guests

Charles C. Mann
Science Writer
American journalist, author and TED speaker specialising in scientific topics.

Dr Timothée Parrique
Ecological Economist
A French social scientist, specialising in Degrowth economics. PhD Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Développement with the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University.

Clare Buckerfield
Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group
FWAG Adviser in Dorset currently facilitating Framework's Cranborne Chase Farmer Cluster. Expert in grassland restoration and management.

Cristóbal Reina
Olive Farmer & Hunter
Framework Farmer Cluster Spain, Sociedad de Cazadores President

Dr Youri Martin
Engineer in Biodiversity
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology expert in biodiversity conservation involving monitoring, species distribution modelling and ecological restoration.

Prof Mark Maslin
Author and Earth System Scientist
Author and Professor of Earth System Science at University College London. Member of UCL Anthropocene, founder of geospatial agri-tech company Rezatec.

Steffen Fritz
Program Director and Principal Research Scholar
Steffen Fritz is the Strategic Initiatives Program Director and a researcher in the Novel Data Ecosystems Research Group of the Advancing Systems Analysis Program at the International Institute of Advanced Systems Analysis, Austria.

Diego Guidotti
CEO of Aedit
Aedit develops a software platform for farm data collection and analytics. The platform empowers farm-mapping for specific agrochemical application and irrigation deployment. Aedit is a spin-off of Framework project partner the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.

Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau
National Campaigner Action Aid USA
Campaigner focusing on biofuels, land rights, and food sovereignty working to build support for land, food, energy and climate policies that work for the environment, communities and families. Action Aid engages global policymakers to promote environmental health, good opportunities and good food for everyone.

Louise Amand
The Capitals Coalition
TEBBAgrifood Belgium
Collaboration Officer developing guidance for agrifood businesses and sustainable agriculture fostering collaboration and partnerships across international projects.

Siim Sellis
Estonian Organic Farmer and ex-professional Skier.
Farmer at Hauka Farm OÜ, part of Framework's Czech Republic Farmer Cluster.

Prof. Ian Bradley
Cultural Historian
Emeritus Professor of Cultural and Spiritual History at the University of St Andrews

Dr Lee-Ann Sutherland
Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences
Director of project partner the James Hutton Institute's International Land Use Study Centre.

Prof Derek Stewart
Director of the Advanced Plant Growth Centre
The APGC is £27M flagship project at Framework Project Convenor The James Hutton Institute. It delivers increased commercial, economic and environmental benefits to the agricultural, food and drink sectors in the UK and internationally by innovative use of precision controlled environment technologies.

Tamme van der Wal
Agritech Spatial Information Management expert
Commercial Manager Akkerweb, with special attention for the data revolution, Public Sector Information, user and usage aspects of spatial data, demand driven developments, satellite data (navigation and earth observation), INSPIRE, information policy etc. Mainly active agriculture, precision farming, CAP, water management, natural resources.

Andrea Gennai
Forest engineer for Italian Protected Areas
Head of Planning and Management Foreste Casentinesi National Park, educator at the University of Pisa. Specialist in Protected Areas Management.

Prof. Camilla Moonen
Assistant Professor in Agronomy and Field Crops
BA Wageningen University, PhD University of Pisa. Expert in the vegetation management of field margins, use of cover crops to manage weeds communities and the management of functional agrobiodiversity. Assistant Professor at Framework Project Partner Sant'Anna University.

Prof. Stefanie Engel
Environmental Economist
Alexander von Humboldt-Professor of Environmental Economics at Framework partner Osnabrück University, Germany.

Patrick Holden
The Sustainable Food Trust
Organic dairy farmer, campaigner for sustainable food and farming, and co-founder of U.K. The Sustainable Food Trust and U.S. Sustainable Food Alliance.

Bertrand Frézel
Confédération Paysanne Breton
Farm advisor from the environmentally conscious peasant farming movement in Brittany, France.

Isabelle Doussan
Environmental Law
Environmental Legal Expert at Framework project partner the French National Agricultural Research Institute (INRAE)

Michelle Nijhuis
Science Communicator
Award-winning environmental and science journalist whose work appears in National Geographic and elsewhere

Juan Carlos Laso Bayas
Research Scholar
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group, Advancing Systems Analysis Program at The International Institute Of Advanced Systems Analysis, Austria.

Lorenzo Costa
Regenerative Farming and Permaculture expert.
Farmer, educator and Regenerative Farming and Permaculture expert involved in Framework's Italian Farmer Cluster. International writer and speaker for sector outlets.

Alberta Guerra
Senior Policy Analyst
ActionAid USA expert in global food policies, focusing on right to food, land rights, agroecology, and global governance. ActionAid liaison with the Committee on World Food Security, IFAD and FAO, Rome, Italy.
About+
From the environmental podcast Prophets, Wizards & The Quest To Value Nature comes Foodlands,
a specially commissioned series presented by the Framework Project.
Designed as a go-to resource for people new to the issue of how our food system impacts life on earth, as well as veterans who want to hear from different perspectives, Foodlands is an editorially independent series inspired by our project's interdisciplinary ethos which places facts over fictions, collaboration over conflict and progress over labels.
Hear from experts, activists and regular people from across the global north considering the past and future of our food lands as biodiversity loss, climate crises and food security challenges spark the question - how to value sustainability in our food system?


Co-Presenter, Assistant Producer
Alexandra Georges-Picot
Alexandra is a journalist with an MPhil in Agricultural History.
She's based in Brittany, FR.

Production Assistant
Beatrix Keillor
Beatrix is a lab technician, administrator and science communications coordinator based in Dundee, UK.
Co-Presenter, Producer, Editor
Theo Simmons
Theo is a filmmaker and producer with Taskscape Media. He's based in Cumbria, UK

Transcription Assistant
Greta Sharp
Greta is an artist, audio transcriber and freelancer based in
Margate , UK.
A podcast by Taskscape Media*
*Taskscape Media is the media production arm of Taskscape Associates, project partner for Communication, Participation & Knowledge Exchange.