Corteva Agriscience
Building empathy through podcast storytelling.
Challenge
When most urban consumers think of farming, they think of pretty red barns, pastoral fields and smiling, multigenerational families. But there’s so much more to the story. Corteva wanted to find a new way to share stories about modern farming’s complexity in a way this audience would find compelling.
Solution
We created The Growing Debate podcast, to present how farming intersects with today’s most complicated and controversial issues. By exploring these topics using the sounds, voices and stories of modern agriculture, urban listeners developed a more emotional connection to today’s farmers.
Creating theater in the mind.
By recording on site and capturing the soundscapes of these rural locations, we transported urban listeners to America’s farmlands for 40 minutes at a time. And we kept their attention by discussing emotional topics intrinsic to modern farming: immigrant labor, gender and race equality, trade wars, climate change, suicide, food transparency and more.
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La Agricultura
Well over half of American farmworkers are undocumented immigrants. What would change without them?
The Front Lines of the Climate War
As extreme weather patterns become status quo, how can farming and food technology help us adapt?
The True (and Untrue) Story of Food
Consumer demand led to food labeling. But when does description stop and marketing start?
