# The Periodic Table of Food

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Podcast: [Plant People](https://stenobird.com/podcast/plant-people-6889546)
Published: 2025-03-24T07:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Join Dr. Alex McAlvay, Assistant Curator at NYBG’s Center for Plants, People, and Culture, and Dr. John de la Parra, Director of the Global Food Portfolio at the Rockefeller Foundation, as they chat about the problems in modern agriculture (like monocrops!) that are threatening our food security worldwide. Together, they'll share some of the ways that historical farming methods might help solve these problems, diversifying our daily menu and making our food system more resilient against climate change.

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