How food growers can think about climate change: Brent Clothier

This Climate Business - A podcast by Podcasts NZ / Vincent Heeringa

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If the rain that deluged the North Island is the ‘new normal’, how are hard-hit growersmeant to think about the future – and growing anything in the ‘normal’ way?Vincent Heeringa spoke to Brent Clothier, chief scientist with Plant &Food, about four ways to think about growing food in a warmer and (ironically)drier New Zealand.Note: this was recorded before Cyclone Gabrielle devastated Hawkes bay and Tairawhiti.