
Fix The News
The Future of Farming: Healthy Soil, AI and Food Security
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Fix The News
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The story of farming has always been one of adaptation. The next chapter may be its most one important yet. In this special episode of Fix The News, we bring together two conversations exploring one of the defining questions of our time: how do we feed a growing world without destroying the planet that we depend on? Meet Professor Rattan Lal, one of the world's leading soil scientists and a World Food Prize laureate, whose life's work has transformed our understanding of the living world beneath our feet. Then meet Alesha Miller, Chief Strategy Officer at Digital Green, who's helping smallholder farmers across Africa and Asia combine generations of local knowledge with artificial intelligence to build more resilient food systems. Together, they help us unpack that that the future of agriculture isn't about choosing between nature and technology, tradition and innovation, or human and artificial intelligence. It's about strengthening both. In this episode: • Why healthy soil is the foundation of healthy food systems • How our lifestyle choices today will help shape the future • The importance of the world's 500 million smallholder farmers • How AI can amplify rather than r