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At the heart of  this conversation with Andrea Rasca , he shares his unique perspective on the future of food and the driving forces...

We treat soil like a factory. We pour in chemicals and demand endless abundance. Farming has become a process of extraction, not biology. But under our feet, the soil is a dark, breathing community. It’s a hidden universe. A single handful holds billions of bacteria, fungi, and microbes. When we forget the earth’s heartbeat, we fail: we turn fertile land into sterile dust. Industrial tilling tears the soil’s structure. It shatters the fungal webs. This releases stored carbo

The January strawberry is an odd thing. It’s perfectly red, glossy as a magazine cover, and tasteless. It has travelled 1,500 miles in a refrigerated box, and maintains the illusion that seasons no longer exist. When we eat this way, we become tourists in our own towns. Real localism is a homecoming. It’s the belief that good things like schools, local makers and real food belong within walking distance. A city built only for shopping malls fractures communities. We stop wa

We are witnessing a troubling shift in public health, and it’ s being delivered in a syringe. For most of human history, eating has been a biological feedback loop: you feel hungry, you eat, and your hormones signals satiety. Ozempic overrides this by mimicking the gut hormone GLP-1 and telling the brain to stop eating before the meal even begins. While these drugs are meant for treating Type 2 diabetes and clinical obesity, their move into the mainstream reveals a troubling

In a world of ultra-processed noise and conflicting nutritional studies, how do we actually decide what to put on our plates? Those who subscribe to our monthly newsletter will have already explored our INSIGHTS , where we pull back the curtain on how tools like the ‘Pyramid’ and ‘Score’, tools shaped less by biology than by the heavy hand of industry lobbying. We look at the timeless wisdom of real food; food as it should be , before it was refined, reinforced, and reshaped

We’re told metabolism is a machine; an engine to be revved or a dial to be turned. But those are marketing buzzwords, not biological truths. In reality, metabolism is a quiet and constant rhythm. It’s the process by which our cells transform nutrients into the energy we need to move, think, and breathe. For too long, we have viewed food through the cold lens of a calculator, obsessing over ‘calories in and calories out’, as if we were furnaces burning fuel. But the body is m

Food banks were never meant to be a permanent fixture. Yet, in the UK, they have morphed into an informal infrastructure - a sticking plaster left on so long it has become normalised. Government data now shows that 2.9 million emergency food parcels were distributed in 2024/25 alone. Insecure work and rising costs have forced 30% of users in working households to use food banks. This is not a success of the heart. It is a failure of the system, and its urban governance

In Wild: An Elemental Journey , Jay Griffiths explores how indigenous cultures maintain a symbiotic relationship with the natural world. Based on years of travel from the Amazon to the Arctic, she argues that true wildness is a state of deep, creative connection rather than unmanaged chaos. The writing rejects standard travel tropes, offering a gritty and direct look at societies that live as part of the earth rather than its owners. It serves as a pragmatic study of human be

Carlos Moreno reminds us that a livable city isn’t just about transport or infrastructure. It’s a city where everything you need – including food – is 15 minutes from home. Neighbourhood markets. Food shops. Spaces where community gathers around food. Not anonymous supermarkets you can only reach by car. For Movimento Metropolitano, this is essential: food is the first element of urban quality of life. It’s democracy, culture, social connection. A 15-minute city is a city whe