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Our Food, our Future - Episode 4

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Tom Heap examines the global food crisis and its impact on Britain. He asks what role technology can play in solving the problem. Can science provide the answers to food shortages, rising demand, drought and climate change and are scientists looking in the right places for solutions? Dutch scientists are experimenting with creating meat from pigs' stem cells, while their UK counterparts complain of underfunding.