ASH CLOUD

By Ash Sweeting

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Episodes: 87

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This is series of conversations discussing global food sustainability with guests who bring a deep understanding of the environmental and cultural challenges facing our society and creative ideas on how to address them.


Episode Date
We don’t need a perfect answer. We need a reliable answer with Tom Sturgess, Methane Mitigation Ventures
Oct 20, 2026
Profitable climate solutions for small holder farmers with Devdut Dalal Mitti Labs
Sep 28, 2026
Government policy to address today's food system challenges with Robert Bonnie former Undersecretary of Agriculture, USDA
Sep 20, 2026
Beef sustainability, methane, and efficiency with Tom McDonald, US Roundtable for Sustainable Beef
Sep 01, 2026
Feed efficiency on pasture: The next frontier with Matt Beck, Texas A&M
Aug 29, 2026
Why telling people to eat less meat will never work - and what we can do instead with Bruce Friedrich, The Good Food Institute
Aug 18, 2026
Regenerative agriculture with Anastasia Volkova, Regrow Ag
Aug 12, 2026
Feed efficiency and methane emissions with Ermias Kebreab, UC Davis
Jun 16, 2026
Artificial Intelligence, the need for reliable data, and where it will have the greatest impacts on agriculture with Aidan Connolly, Agritech Capital
May 27, 2026
Building a company that leverages biological complexity to improve livestock productivity with a reduced climate impact - Tom Williams Number 8 Bio
May 04, 2026
Building resilient agrifood systems across conflict zones and climate stressed regions with Bram Govaerts, CIMMYT
Apr 06, 2026
Leading US beef sustainability with Steve Wooten, Beatty Canyon Ranch
Mar 17, 2026
Data driven livestock production for feed efficiency with Andrew Freshwater Clear Creek Pastoral Co.
Mar 10, 2026
Cow feed efficiency, the greatest area of untapped potential for beef production, with Matt Wilson West Virginia University
Mar 03, 2026
Investing in regenerative agriculture, the food system, and metabolic health with Carter Williams - iSelect Fund
Feb 06, 2026
Breeding for profitable, efficient, locally adapted and sustainable cattle with Troy Rowan University of Tennessee
Jan 30, 2026
Low cost, locally produced zero emissions nitrogen fertilizer with Frere Byrne PlasmaLeap Technologies
Jan 22, 2026
Addressing the Climate, Agriculture, Landscape and Food Security Nexus through policy with Tobias Gräs Danish Agriculture and Food Council
Jan 08, 2026
Animal health as a climate solution with Nick Wheelhouse, Edinburgh Napier Univeristy
Dec 10, 2025
Global food security, innovation, and the investment gap with Maximo Torero UNFAO
Nov 25, 2025
Creating a carbon neutral beef operation with Robert Mackenzie, Mackas Australian Black Angus Beef
Oct 22, 2025
Building a profitable animal biotech company with Mike Seely, Native Microbials
Aug 29, 2025
Brazil's transition from a net food importer to one of the world's leading exporters over the last 50 years with Bruno Brasil, Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock
Aug 23, 2025
Regenerative agriculture with Jason Rowntree, Michigan State University
Jul 12, 2025
Epigenetics with Travis Bayer, Decibel Bio
May 08, 2025
Is meat a luxury that is becoming increasingly difficult to afford with Paul Behrens, Oxford University
Apr 11, 2025
Building sustainable supply chains with Lamar Steiger and Neil Mellers, Ranch2Retail
Apr 08, 2025
The link between obesity and poverty, rising obesity, and how GLP-1s are changing the game with Jack Bobo UCLA
Mar 26, 2025
Sustainable Livestock Transformation Initiative with Aimable Uwizeye UNFAO
Mar 17, 2025
Capitalizing on opportunity with Jason Strong, former Managing Director Meat and Livestock Australia
Mar 07, 2025
Breeding for sustainable livestock, how genetic selection can provide significant and permanent reductions to livestock emissions with Matthew Cleveland
Feb 25, 2025
Challenging meat politics and promoting regenerative agriculture with Sparsha Saha, Harvard University
Jan 28, 2025
Incentivizing the least productive farmers to change with Jason Clay, World Wildlife Fund
Jan 24, 2025
Irrigation is colonising fresh water with Bruce Lankford, University of East Anglia
Jan 13, 2025
Wolves reduce vehicle deer collisions with Nick Parker Hoover Institution
Dec 17, 2024
The politics and science of addressing the 2050 global demand for protein with Alison Van Eenennaam UC Davis
Dec 16, 2024
Artificial intelligence is neither artificial nor intelligent? with Aidan Connolly
Nov 05, 2024
Biosecurity with Andy Sheppard CSIRO
Oct 28, 2024
Climate change and national security with Sherri Goodman - International Military Council on Climate & Security
Oct 17, 2024
Climate related violence, a messy marriage of climate stress and poor governance with Peter Schwartzstein Environmental Journalist
Sep 24, 2024
How the livestock methane conversation has evolved with Frank Mitloehner UC Davis
Sep 19, 2024
Regenerative ranching with Rich Bradbury
Sep 13, 2024
Nitrogen 2.0 with Eric Davidson University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Spark Climate Solutions, and Charles Brooke from Spark Climate Solutions
Aug 30, 2024
Tripling the impact of methane reducing feed additives with decentralized AI with Yaniv Altshuler MIT and Metha AI
Aug 06, 2024
Leading climate smart agriculture policy development and implementation with Secretary Karen Ross - California Department of Food and Agriculture
Jul 13, 2024
Into the clear blue sky, the path to restoring our climate with Rob Jackson Stanford University
Jun 21, 2024
Catalysing industry, community, and government to achieve Zero Net Emissions with Richard Health - Zero Net Emissions from Agriculture CRC
Jun 08, 2024
Developing the enteric methane inhibitor Bovaer® over the last 16 years with Maik Kindermann - DSM-Firmenich
May 31, 2024
Understanding of the security implications of a changing climate and how it compounds the risk of conflict with Neil Morisetti University College London and Chatham House
May 24, 2024
We can live without energy, without phones, without technology but we cant live without food with Ismahane Elouafi CGIAR
May 15, 2024
Protein and the roles it plays in nutrition and future food systems with Michelle Colgrave CSIRO
May 07, 2024
Adapting livestock methane mitigation strategies to local requirements with Ermias Kebreab UC Davis
Apr 19, 2024
Global food systems produce 60% of methane with Marcelo Mena - Global Methane Hub
Mar 17, 2024
European farmer protests and the political battleground around sustainable agriculture with Tim Benton, Chatham House
Feb 28, 2024
Balancing methane mitigation with the economic, and social aspects of sustainable livestock production with Sara Place, AgNext at Colorado State University
Feb 21, 2024
The politics of our growing disconnection from our food with Sparsha Saha - Harvard University
Feb 14, 2024
Addressing the 70% of global livestock methane emissions that come from the Developing World with Aimable Uwizeye UNFAO
Feb 01, 2024
Conflict, climate change, and food insecurity with David Tuck International Committee of the Red Cross
Jan 23, 2024
The role of livestock in global food systems with Peer Ederer - GOAL Sciences and Zeppelin University
Jan 12, 2024
How do we make food decisions with Barbara Mullan, Curtin University
Dec 03, 2023
Broadening the approach to livestock methane mitigation, the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research study with Rod Mackie, University of Illinois
Nov 02, 2023
Regenerative agriculture can be scaled through education with Terry McCosker
Sep 05, 2023
Balancing food security and sustainability in East Africa with Su Kahumbu, Bernard Kimoro, and Claudia Arndt
Jul 28, 2023
Microbial good guys and bad guys, and their duplicitous nature, with Itzik Mizrahi - Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Jul 18, 2023
Allan Savory, Government policy is the cause of climate change
Jun 13, 2023
What is a good microbiome with Todd Callaway, University of Georgia
Jun 04, 2023
Driving Climate Change Policy with Zoe Daniel Member of Parliament (Australia)
May 13, 2023
It’s not rocket science, it’s not that we don’t know what to do, it’s that we haven’t figured out how to incentivise the necessary behavioural change with Britt Groosman – Environmental Defense Fund
Apr 24, 2023
Creating positive climate impact on the vast landmass under beef production with Ruaraidh Petre - Global Roundtable on Sustainable Beef
Mar 30, 2023
Rewriting the traditional dogma on metabolic disease with Lance Baumgard, Iowa State University
Mar 22, 2023
Agriculture is not just about food security, it’s about national and regional security with Air Vice Marshal (retired) John Blackburn, former Deputy Chief of the Royal Australian Air Force
Feb 27, 2023
Can a strategy of cheap food ever be wrong with Mary Shelman
Jan 30, 2023
Hydrogen warfare in the rumen - the source of livestock methane emissions with Sharon Huws, Queens University, Belfast
Nov 07, 2022
The good, the bad, and the ugly of food processing! Nutrient density and the relationships between food production systems, human health, and the health of our microbiome with Anneline Padayachee, University of Queensland
Oct 28, 2022
Humanities original recyclers, how small interventions can have big impact with Anthony Carrigan - Kyeema Foundation
Oct 21, 2022
Healthy Cells, Healthy Mind, the impacts of diet and lifestyle on our brains with Liz Head, UC Irvine
Oct 10, 2022
Livestock antibiotics, the soils microbiome, and climate change with Dr Carl Wepking - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Sep 22, 2022
Prof Richard Eckard talks - agriculture and climate change, carbon accounting, economics, policy, and farmers.
Sep 22, 2022
Livestock methane, collaboration, existing research, and student energy with Prof. Joe McFadden - Cornell University
Sep 22, 2022
Food quality, human health, farming systems and how closely these are connected, with Eric Jackson - Bionutrient Food Association
Sep 22, 2022
Sustainable farming is all about people with Anastasia Volkova - Regrow
Sep 22, 2022
Building a new city and food system from scratch with Ray Moule - NEOM
Sep 22, 2022
Learning from nature how to eliminate livestock methane emissions with Prof Athol Klieve - University of Queensland
Sep 21, 2022
Bridging the gap between consumer expectations and on farm/ranch productivity through listening to the next generation and challenging the current thinking with Harry Lawson – Lawson Angus
Sep 21, 2022
Feeding the half of world's people who are living on less than $6 a day with Tim Prewitt - The Hunger Project
Sep 13, 2022
Working with customers to reduce carbon emissions with Justin Webb - AgriWebb
Sep 06, 2022
Ruminant Methane Production with Dr Matthias Hess - UC Davis
Sep 06, 2022