Welcome to the Clipper Podcast. This time we will talk about climate change. And we will start with Martin Brook from Brook Farms in Australia who sounded very worried when I spoke to him on the phone…We will come back to Martin Brook who is a very special macadamia farmer, with his now famous macadamia gin and a rainforest on his farm. Our next topic is prunes and climate change.  The annual conference of the International Prune Association welcomed Dr Peter Johnston who is a climate scientist at the University of Cape Town. I wanted to know what the immediate consequences of climate change are for producers of dried fruit like prunes. I also talked to a company that is developing smart ways to understand water through satellite imagery at the huge agriculture technology fair Agritechnica in Hannover.

I would like to add a personal message about climate change: It affects all of us and we all can do our best to limit carbon emissions. As the publisher of the Clipper Magazine we are doing our part: By reducing air travel, using more sustainable materials and actually replacing car rides with public transports and our beautiful company bicycle we have been able to reduce our footprint by nearly 100 t of carbon this year. We encourage everyone to do their part for the future of the planet and the future of the nuts and dried fruit industry. Thank you for listening, you can subscribe to the Clipper Magazine at theclippermag.com or contact us via email, Linkedin or on our website. Talk soon!