When you think about the coronavirus currently sweeping the globe, chances are that ‘food’ is not the first word to comes to your mind. Yet food has amplified the devastating effects caused by COVID-19 and exposed vulnerabilities across our food system.  How exactly is food related to the pandemic? And how can we redesign our food systems in a way that helps us avoid similar crises in the future?  In this episode Amanda Wood talks to professor Jess Fanzo at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute...

We are in the midst of a devastating pandemic. The coronavirus that leads to covid-19 is known to be a zoonotic disease - a virus that has spilled over from non-human animals to humans, and then rapidly moved across the world with devastating impacts on human health, economies and social stability.    What is the connection between environmental change and diseases such as coronaviruses? How strong is this connection, can we really blame bats, and what does the future of disease risks look...