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Thrive Podcast brings you interviews with experts in agriculture and the environment. We explore how farmers and researchers work together to make food supplies more sustainable in an era of large, fast-moving changes. Visit us at wle.cgiar.org/thrive/podcast

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems


    • Jul 18, 2017 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 16m AVG DURATION
    • 10 EPISODES


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    Trouble for tapioca: Cassava in Vietnam

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2017 11:52


    Cassava, or Tapioca as it is more popularly known, is a very important staple crop in Vietnam, as well as most of Southeast Asia. This robust crop is facing some serious threats, in the form of pests, depleted soils, and unsustainable farming practices.

    Reporting from Paris: Youth solve pressing landscape challenges

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2015 22:07


    One of the highlights of this year's Global Landscapes Forum in Paris was the Dragons Den session, hosted by the Youth in Landscapes Initiative. Eavesdropping from the workshop to the final pitches was Andrew Johnstone.

    A social science approach to agricultural dilemmas

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2015 16:34


    Why are many apparently simple, technical solutions to agricultural problems not widely adopted? Why don't people change their behaviour when provided with information that ought to be useful? In this episode of the Thrive podcast, Katherine Snyder from CIAT, shares her views on silver bullet solutions to dilemmas in agricultural development.

    Water rights re-examined

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2015 17:13


    On this Thrive podcast, we discuss water rights with Tim Williams and Alan Nicol of IWMI. What are the consequences of leaving water out of large-scale land acquisition agreements? And what about another type of human right: the right to water for crops? 

    Preparing for hotter, colder, wetter and drier

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2015 14:21


    Hovering over almost all of the discussions at Stockholm World Water Week was the question of climate change, and one of the few aspects of climate change we can be absolutely certain about is that things are going to become more variable. Claudia Ringler and Jeremy Bird join us on this episode of Thrive Podcast. 

    Working together for a better Kachin landscape

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2015 14:54


    Today we head to Northern Myanmar where filmmaker Douglas Varchol reports from the field. Varchol joins a research team from the project on "Working together for a better Kachin landscape.”

    Podcast: Bringing soils back to life: A conversation with Deborah Bossio

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2015 20:58


    On this episode of Thrive podcast, we sit down with CIAT's Dr. Deborah Bossio,  who has spent the last 20 years working at the nexus between soil and social sciences.

    Podcast: Restoring an invisible lifeline: soil

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2015 20:09


    The latest episode of the Thrive podcast takes a close look at the ground beneath our feet. Soil, on which terrestrial life depends, is often ignored precisely because it is everywhere and yet invisible. 

    Podcast: Andrew Noble on feeding the future

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2015 24:56


    It is no coincidence that we're launching the Thrive podcast today, World Environment Day. The theme this year is sustainable consumption and production, and that's exactly what drives the podcast's first guest: Andrew Noble, Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems.

    Re-thinking resilience in the Fogera region of Ethiopia

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2014 4:08


    During his time in north western Ethiopia, Dr. Steven Prager observed the complex relationship between upstream and downstream farmers in the Fogera region of Ethiopia. His results, he said, were unexpected. Dr. Prager discusses the relationship between farm plot location and resilience in this podcast.

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