Podcasts about agriculture organisation

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, 800 million people are going to bed hungry every night, but 2 billion people in the world are malnourished. Farmers across the globe produce enough food to feed 10 billion people, yet there are only 7.6 billion of us. We know there is enough food to go around, but filling tummies is only the start – we also need a varied diet. CrowdScience visits Nairobi during GGIAR Science Week, a hub for agricultural scientists. They are meeting to discuss the changes needed to get the right crops into the soil and the right food on the plates of those who need it. Presenters Anand Jagatia and Alex Lathbridge are joined by a live audience and a panel of experts Lindiwe Sibanda, Sieglinde Snapp and Alex Awiti. Together they explore questions from our listeners in Kenya and around the world: whether we can restore natural habitats whilst promoting food security; why human waste isn't used more commonly as a fertiliser; and what impact empowering women in agriculture will have on our ability to feed the world. Recorded at CGIAR Science Week at the UN headquarters in Nairobi. Image: Drone view of tractor ploughing a field Image Credit: Justin Paget via Getty Images Presenters: Anand Jagatia & Alex Lathbridge Producer: Harrison Lewis Editors: Martin Smith & Cathy Edwards Production Co-ordinators: Ishmael Soriano & Josie Hardy Studio Managers: Gayl Gordon, Andrew Garratt & Sarah Hockley

Tatiana Antonelli-Abella is joined by Feras Ziadat, who is currently a Land and Water Officer with a specific focus on land resource management and planning at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation. Mr. Ziadat played a pivotal role in coordinating the FAO flagship report titled The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture, SOLO, and he also updating the FAO Guide on integrated land use planning. In this episode, he talks about fostering participatory and integrated land use planning, combating land degradation and desertification, and the dangers of sand and dust storms.  Prior to this role, Mr. Ziadat held the position of Senior Scientist at ICARDA and served as an Associate Professor at the University of Jordan. He has also served as the chair of the United Nations Coalition on Combating Sand and Dust Storms. This episode is part of Our Land, Our Future, a special mini-series of Forward Talks by Goumbook focused on land restoration and combating desertification. This special series is brought to you in partnership with Saudi Awwal Bank. Find out more at: https://www.sab.com/esg/.

Around 100 countries have official dietary guidelines, and more are on their way. But who is following them? Ruth Alexander asks how realistic healthy-eating advice is as she explores how official recommendations are developed, what they're trying to achieve, and the obstacles standing in our way. We hear from Fatima Hachem, Senior Nutrition Officer at the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation, about how her team offers support to countries designing dietary guidelines.Chiza Kunwenda, senior lecturer in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Zambia, tells us how he and a team of others drew up the latest dietary guidelines for Zambia and other countries in Africa.In Argentina, as well as advice, the government has issued black octagonal warning labels on foods high in salt sugar, saturated fats and calories. Are people taking notice? And can people around the world afford to eat according to guidelines? Dr Anna Herforth co-directed the Food prices for Nutrition project at Tufts University in the United States, tells us what she found. We also hear from shoppers at a community food outlet in the North West of England, about how cost is barrier to healthy eating.(Image: a plate of food showing suggested dietary guidelines. Credit: Getty Images/BBC)If you'd like to contact the programme, email thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk. Producers: Hannah Bewley and Izzy Greenfield.

President Higgins has been chosen by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) to be the recipient of the organisation's Agricola Medal. The medal, which bears the Latin name for farmer, is conferred upon international figures who have undertaken outstanding efforts in advancing the cause of global food security, poverty alleviation and nutrition. President Higgins,the first Irish recipient of the medal, received the award from the Director-General of the FAO, Dr Qu Dongyu at a reception in Áras an Uachtaráin. https://president.ie/en/diary/details/president-receives-the-united-nations-agricola-medal-from-dr-qu-dongyu-director-general-of-the-fao

Cows emit greenhouse gases when they eat, which contributes to global warming. But is it possible to produce meat in a climate-friendly way? Grace Livingstone visits a carbon neutral certified ranch in Uruguay, where farm manager Sebastian Olaso shows her around. She also meets Javier Secadas, a small farmer who raises cattle on natural grasslands, and agronomist Ignacio Paparamborda, from the University of the Republic in Montevideo.Grace hears from Pete Smith, Professor of Soils and Global Change at the University of Aberdeen, and Dominik Wisser, Livestock Policy Officer, from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation. She tries to find out if it is possible to produce meat in a way that is both good for nature and the climate. Or whether we need to stop eating meat to cut emissions.Presenter/Producer: Grace Livingston (Image: Cows grazing in Uruguay. Credit: Getty Images)

According to a 2022 UN report, there is fresh evidence that the world is moving in reverse, away from the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) of ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms, by 2030, which is just six years away. The Food and and Agriculture Organisation says attaining the SGD 2 target by 2030 would be difficult, unless agrifood systems are transformed and made more resilient. Densely-populated countries like Singapore have been adopting new technologies to maximise organic production of foods and vegetables using minimum land. In this episode of Mind Your Business, we speak with a pair of “young” farmers, James Yin, CEO & Co-founder, V-plus Agritech and Nelson Tan, CTO & Co-founder, V-plus Agritech, who aim to empower communities and individuals with their smart technology in sustainable farming to reshape agriculture.    Presented by Emaad Akhtar This podcast is produced and edited by Anthea Ng (nganthea@sph.com.sg) She produces Mind Your Business, Biz-How-To and Breakfast Special segments on the Breakfast Show. Do contact her for topics: C-Suite, SME, Startups, Sustainability, Property, Intergenerational Family Business, Industry Outlook, Fintech and trending businesses in town.   Music credits: pixabay & its talented community of contributors  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BOOK LAUNCH Food Systems Transformation in Kenya: Lessons from the Past and Policy Options for the Future Co-organized by IFPRI, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD), and CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies (NPS) JAN 8, 2024 - 4:30 TO 5:45PM EAT Food systems transformation offers a promising avenue to achieve the goals Kenya has set out in the Bottom-Up Economic Agenda (BETA). The new book Food Systems Transformation in Kenya: Lessons from the Past and Policy Options for the Future, edited by Clemens Breisinger, Michael Keenan, Jemimah Njuki, and Juneweenex Mbuthia, takes a critical look at Kenya's whole food system, including food supply chains, the food environment, consumer behavior, external drivers, and development outcomes and considers the system's history and experiences from other countries. With chapters authored by Kenyan and international experts, this collaborative work presents both a bird's-eye view of the Kenyan food system and in-depth analyses of its components. Rigorous economic research provides unique insights into both broad policy themes and specific actions that can position Kenya as a global leader in tackling the challenges of food-system-led transformation. Join us for this hybrid book launch at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Nairobi campus and online. Speakers from academia, Kenyan research institutes, policy institutions, and CGIAR will discuss the recommendations. A light reception will follow the presentations. For in person attendance, please contact Ann Mureithi (a.mureithi@cgiar.org). Welcoming Remarks Ismahane Elouafi, Executive Managing Director, CGIAR Johan Swinnen, Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR; Director General, IFPRI Hon. Jonathan Mueke, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) Gideon Obare, Executive Director, Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development Overview of the Book Juneweenex Mbuthia, Research Officer, IFPRI and co-editor Clemens Breisinger, Program Leader, IFPRI/CGIAR and co-editor Reflections on the Book and Panel Discussion Jane Ambuko, Professor, University of Nairobi Michael Keenan, Associate Research Fellow, IFPRI Rose Ngugi, Executive Director/Board Secretary, Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) Nancy Laibuni, Associate Member, President's Council of Economic Advisors Anne Chele, Agriculture and Rural Development Partner Group (ARDPG) Representative; National Policy Specialist, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO-Kenya) Closing Remarks Appolinaire Djikeng, Director General, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); Senior Director, Livestock Based-Systems, CGIAR and MD Resilient AgriFood Systems, CGIAR Moderators Esther Waruingi, Research Officer, IFPRI Joseph Karugia, Principal Scientist, Agricultural Economist and Policy Expert, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Links Food systems transformation in Kenya: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/food-systems-transformation-kenya-lessons-past-and-policy-options-future More about this Event: https://www.ifpri.org/event/food-system-transformation-kenya-lessons-past-and-policy-options-future Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

Het World Meat Congress vindt dit jaar plaats in Maastricht, en Studio Plantaardig is er bij. Het thema is ‘Meeting society and consumer'. Dus we zijn benieuwd: leeft bij deze mensen ook het besef dat ons voedselpatroon meer plantaardig zou moeten worden? Hoe is het eigenlijk gesteld met de wereldwijde vleesconsumptie en hoe kijkt de sector zelf naar de toekomst van vlees? Esther volgt de presentaties en interviewt diverse sprekers. Een reportage vanuit het hart van de vleesindustrieIn deze aflevering dag 1 van het congres. Hierin hoor je: Guillaume Roue, President van het International Meat Secretariat (IMS)Luc van Loon, hoogleraar bewegingswetenschappen aan de universiteit van Maastricht over dierlijke vs. plantaardige proteïnen Thanawat Tiensin, de Director Animal Production and Health Division van de Food and Agriculture Organisation, de FAO. Over de ‘Sustainable Livestock Transition'Chen Wei, vice president van de China Meat Association over de groeiende vleesconsumptie in ChinaIgnasi Pons Agrimon, secretaris generaal van de branchevereniging van de spaanse vleesindustrie over de dalende vleesconsumptie in Spanje en hoe deze weer omhoog te krijgenPeer Ederer van GOAL Sciences - over hoe de cijfers over de milieu impact van vlees niet zouden kloppenMaciej Golubiewski, kabinetshoofd van de landbouwminister van de Europese Unie, verzekert de branche dat de EU geen plannen heeft om de vleesconsumptie te verminderenFernando Batoz Costa, minister van Veeteelt uit Uruguay. Over hoe de veeteelt onterecht in een kwaad daglicht wordt gezet Laurens Hoedemaker, voorzitter van de Centrale Organisatie voor de Vleessector (COV) beantwoordt de vraag of de vleesconsumptie wat minder zou moeten zijnDag 2 van het congres publiceren we in de volgende aflevering.Meer info:Website World Meat Congress: https://www.wmc2023maastricht.com/programme/programme/De pro-vlees websites waar spreker Peer Ederer de sector naar verwijst, met publicaties die de vermeende milieu-impact van vlees zouden weerleggen:https://aleph-2020.blogspot.comCredits:Presentatie: Esther Molenwijk, Stichting The Food RevolutionAudio en design: Marlon van der Pas, Nothing BlankHelp ons het plantaardige nieuws te verspreiden: deel deze podcast. Enorm bedankt! Web: https://www.studioplantaardig.nl Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/studio_plantaardig Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/studioplantaardig YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@studioplantaardig TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@studioplantaardig X: #StudioPlantaardig

Dr. Juan Lubroth takes us on his journey from becoming a wildlife Veterinarian to being Veterinary Chief Officer at FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation). As a wildlife Veterinarian, Dr. Juan Lubroth attended and is a co-author of the "Manhattan Principles", which formalized the One Health concept in 2004.His knowledge in Public Health and One Health is immense and his perspectives on the global challenges that we're are currently facing bring a great understanding of what needs to be improved in order to bring the One Health approach more into live.During this interview we cover different topics ranging from antimicrobial resistances, to waste management, wet market regulations and the role of Veterinarians during the Covid-19 pandemia.Enjoy!Links mentioned on the episode:12 Manhattan Principles:http://www.wcs-ahead.org/manhattan_principles.htmlFAO World Livestock 2013 - Changing Diseases Landscapeshttp://www.fao.org/3/i3440e/i3440e.pdfConnect with Sara Perestrelo (host):https://www.linkedin.com/in/saraperestrelo/If you like today's episode, then please subscribe and leave a review so more people can learn about the podcast. Thank you!

[This show is produced in Somali only; English caption of the show context is down below] Todobaadkaan #TubtaNabadda, waxaan diiradda ku saareynaa isbadalka cimilada iyo saameynta ay ku yeelatay Soomaaliya, iyadoo dalka uu la tacaalayo daadad dhiibootyin ku haya guryaha magaalada Baladweyne, oo ay ka barakaceen kumanaan qoys. Qaybta hore ee barnaamijka, la taliye sare oo dhanka deegaanka, kana tirsan Qaramada Midoobay Chris Hodder, ayaa ka hadlaya saameynta isbadalka cimilada iyo waxa ay dowladda iyo QM sameynayaan si wax looga qabto saameynta isbadalka cimilada. Qaybta labaad Paolo Paron, oo ka tirsan hay'adda Cunnada iyo Beerada ee FAO, ayaa ka sheekeynaya cawaaqibka isbadalka xilli-roobaadka, gaar ahaan saameynta bulshada beeraleyda iyo xoola dhaqatada. Paron ayaa sidoo kale sharxaya waxa loo baahan yahay in la sameeyo si loo hirgaliyo qorshaha ka hortagga fatahaadaha iyo abaaraha. Barnaamijka waxaa daadihinaaya, Cali Guutaale iyo Fatxi Max'ed. Nala wadaag aragtidaada ku aadan sheekooyinka bulshada waxa aay sameynayaan si looga hortago daadadka Soomaaliya iyo la qabsiga isbadalka xilli roobaadka. Fadlanw wac idaacada aad ugu jeeshahay xilliyadaan. Radio Mogadishu (2.30 p.m., 8.30 p.m.) Radio Kulmiye (2.30 p.m., 8.30 p.m.) Radio Baidoa (1.30 p.m., 9.00 p.m.) SBC Radio (1.20 p.m., 7.30 p.m.) Radio Garowe (2.30 p.m., 8.30 p.m.) Radio Cadaado (1.30 p.m., 8.30 p.m.) Radio Risala (2.30 p.m., 9.00 p.m.) Radio Dalsan (2.30 p.m., 8.30 p.m.) Radio Hiranweyn (1.15 p.m., 8.15 p.m.) Radio Galgaduud (2.30 p.m., 9.00 p.m.) Radio Kismaayo (2.30 p.m., 7.00 p.m.) Waamo Radio (8.00 p.m.) Isnaay Radio (7.00 p.m.) Sanguuni Radio (8.00 p.m. Axad) Beerlula Radio (8.30 p.m. Axad) Arlaadi Radio (8.00 p.m. Axad) Radio Daar-Dheer (8.30 p.m. Talaado) Waxaad sidoo kale ka helikartaa Podcast qaybtaan iyo qaybaha kaleba: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../tubta-nabaada.../id1373615264 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/tubta-nabaada-path-to-peace TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Podcasts/Tubta-Nabaada-Path-to-Peace-p1120872/ ------------------ Si aad wax badan uga ogaato wararka iyo warbixinada Howlgalka Kaalmaynta QM ee Soomaaliya, booqo: Website: https://unsom.unmissions.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UNSomalia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNSOMALIA Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/unsom/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/unsom-somalia/... Vimeo: https://www.vimeo.com/unsom ------------------- ------------------- This week on #TubtaNabadda, we focus on climate change and the toll it takes on Somalia as the country grapples with flooding that continues to wreak havoc on homes in Belet Weyne, displacing thousands of families. In the first part of the programme, the UN Environmental Advisor to Somalia, Chris Hodder, discusses the impact of climate change and what the government and UN agencies are doing to address the effect of changing weather patterns. Our second guest, the Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) Senior Land and Water Advisor for Somalia, Paolo Paron, tells us about the consequences of changing rainfall patterns, especially for the farmers and agropastoral communities. Mr. Paron also explains what needs to be done to implement flood and drought protection solutions. The programme is presented in Somali by Ali Gutale and Fathi Mohamed. Share your stories about what communities are doing to prevent floods in Somalia and adapt to changing rainfall patterns. Call in your favourite radio station during the show today.

Fishing is believed to be one of the oldest professions in the world, with evidence of this activity dating back to prehistoric times.According to the European Commission, in 2018 more than 150,000 people worked in the fishing industry in the European Union, but this number is declining. An ageing workforce, lack of investment, safety concerns, and sustainability challenges are just some of the difficulties that this sector is facing. In this episode, Euronews science reporter, Jeremy Wilks, discusses the future of European fishing communities with Anna Carlson, Fishery Officer for Socio-economic Issues at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN and the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean. Our second guest is Esben Sverdrup-Jensen, President of the European Association of Fish Producers Organisations.And at the end of the episode, Captain Peter Hammarstedt, the Director of Campaigns for Sea Shepherd, shares a personal and moving story of saving a pilot whale. Thanks to Melvin van der Niet and Ton van Duijn from the STC scheepvaart en transport college, in Katwijk aan Zee in the Netherlands, and to Vicente Alfonso, from Gandia in Valencia, Spain, for talking to us about their experience as fishermen. Hosted by Euronews science reporter Jeremy Wilks. Produced by Naira Davlashyan and Natalia Oelsner.Sound design and mixing are by Jean-Christophe Marcaud and Matthieu Duchaine. The theme music is by Gabriel Dalmasso. Our production coordinator is Carolyne Labbe and our editor-in-chief is Sophie Claudet. The Ocean Calls podcast is made possible by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feeding the world has always been a challenge - but doing it amid a changing climate is only going to get more difficult. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates we'll need to produce 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed the world's population of 10 billion. ZeaKal is a biotech company with roots in New Zealand and California which has been working on how to increase crop yields without sacrificing nutrition, while also creating a smaller environmental footprint. Its PhotoSeed technology modifies gene traits to increase a plant's ability to capture carbon and light. This in turn, boosts yield, nutrient density and also increases carbon capture. Han Chen is the CEO of ZeaKal and joins Kathryn to explain more. He'll also be speaking as part of E Tipu, the Boma Agri Summit taking place next month.

Today on the podcast we have a different kind of guest! We have the incredible Dr. Roswitha Baumung who currently works at the Division for Animal Production and Health of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).Roswitha has always had a passion for animals. She studied Agriculture and completing her pHD on Animal breeding and genetics.  "I was especially interested in the genetics of small populations".  After a scientific career at University, she began a helping farmers in her home country, Austria, set up breeding programmes for rare breeds.  Now she works for the FAO, working with all of the breeds around the world. Roswitha works in a team of three and is responsible for looking at the diversity of our livestock breeds.In her role she supports countries by implementing breeding plans to preserve the genetic diversity of the population amongst many other things. Mark and Roswitha discuss the importance of maintaining a native population to deal with shifting climate conditions. She says in some developing countries, she has seen a shift in species that specialise in harder conditions, aka going from sheep farming to camel farming! "We need animals that are resilient, that recover fast after a [weather] event." And it's not just an environmental shift, it's also a consumer shift. Mark asks is there is a secret gene bank full of the worlds animal genetics, like there is with seeds, but alas there is not. Roswitha does mention "cryoconservation" though, which you can read more about hereThis podcast is a fantastic insight of the bigger picture thinking when it comes to the future of livestock breeding. Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited, we help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best - info@nextgenagri.com.Thanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, and Heiniger Australia and New Zealand.These companies are leaders in their respective fields and it is a privilege to have them supporting the Head Shepherd Podcast. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.Check out Heiniger's product range HERECheck out the MSD range HERECheck out Allflex products HERE

This week on The New Arab Voice we're joined by journalist Ali Abbas Ahmadi to examine the deadly floods that hit Pakistan six months ago. The rains started to fall in June and would not stop until August, during which time, the might Indus River would flood, spreading devastation ; particularly in the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan.The floods killed 1,700 people and left tens of millions of Pakistanis homeless. The flood waters would also wash aways the livelihoods  of millions; laying waste to farms, killing livestock, and destroying stores of grain and seeds.This week, we speak with one of the farmers who lost their land and livelihood, and ask what are the major challenges facing those affected? How has Pakistan dealt with food shortages, and how has the political instability added to the failure to provide support. We speak with Dr Zaffar Mahmood (@DrZaffarMehmoo1), an independent expert on food safety and food security, who has worked as a consultant with the Pakistani government and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. And Marvin Pervez, the regional director of an NGO called Community World Service Asia (@communitywsasia). Him and his team work with people on the ground in Pakistan.Sign up for our newsletter here.This podcast is written by Ali Abbas Ahmadi and produced by Hugo Goodridge.Theme music by Omar al-Fil. Other music by Blue Dot Sessions.To get in touch with the producers, follow then tweet us at @TheNewArabVoice or email hugo.goodridge@newarab.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Refiloe is joined by Resident Chef and Food Anthropologist, Dr Anna Trapido exploring the fascination of millet following United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation's big party in Rome and declaring 2023 the International Year of Millets. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the final episode of this podcast series, we reflect on the learnings gathered from our conversations with food systems experts and leaders of civic food networks, and ask how policy can help scale up fairer food systems in Australia. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Nora McKeon, professor at the Rome Tre University, who has worked extensively at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation on food systems governance and rural peoples' movements; Maggie Carter, Research Analyst at the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD); and Dr. Kiah Smith, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and project leader of the Fair Food Futures Project. Our guests explore the connections between local food justice initiatives and food policy making, both at global and national levels, and discuss different governance pathways to reconfigure food systems. Our experts highlight the importance of establishing networks of collaboration between all stakeholders across the food system, the need to work in partnership with policy makers, and the current challenges that civic food networks face in the Australian food policy space. The podcast concludes with reflections on the actions that listeners can pursue to actively participate and influence food policy making in Australia and globally.   Important links: More information about the Fair Food Futures Project and the scenarios for food justice HERE.     UNRISD Research and Action Network for a New EcoSocial Contract People's Consultation on grassroots impacts of COVID19Civil Society and Indigenous People's Mechanism (CSM) for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) UN Sustainable Development Goals Green Economy CoalitionCare AustraliaFarmers for Climate ActionCo-Building a New Eco-Social World – Online Global Conference, 29th June to 2nd July 2022  Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance The New Economy Network Australia Like and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more updates about fair food systems in Australia ---The Fair Food Futures project is led by Dr Kiah Smith from The University of Queensland and funded by The Australian Research Council (DE190101126). This podcast is produced by Dr Kiah Smith, Dr Daniel Cruz, Joanna Horton and VMP Studio, and funded by the Future Earth's Pathways Initiative. Visit our website at: https://fairfoodfutures.com/

The United Nations announced that it had reached an agreement with the Federal Government to develop tools for monitoring public spending in agriculture. The agreement also covers monitoring the effects of public policies on prices for farmers and producers in Nigeria. It says the agreement was reached between the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. The UN says both parties had renewed their collaboration for the next five years and signed the first work plan to help repurpose budgets, incentivize producers, and speed up inclusive agricultural transformation. The UN agency stated that it was time to rethink, repurpose and rethink the agriculture sector of the Nigerian economy.

Charlottte Dufour is founder of Narayan, a retreat space which followed years of work in humanitarian aid and international cooperation (LinkedIn, Twitter). She is a nutrition expert, having worked in Afghanistan in the early 2000s on child malnutrition before moving to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (a UN agency), where she specialised in Food Security, Nutrition and Livelihoods. She is also a qualified yoga instructor.The key theme of our conversation was Charlotte's hard-won perspective that challenges we face are invitations to not look for happiness in the fulfilment of our material desires, but to have the wisdom to find the stillness within. From that deep place we can work on what is very important:the quality of relationship between humans, and between humans and nature.You'll hear me say a couple of times that the perspective can sound fluffy. But if you read Charlotte's book on her time in Afghanistan, then you would know the tough and grounded experiences from which that perspective has grown. We recorded the interview in early Sep 2022. Worth knowing that Charlotte and I were at university together, and she introduced me to my late wife in 1999.LinksAnand yogaListening Inspires, which Charlotte co-founded, "brings together a rich  network of individuals committed to inspiring creative solutions to modern-day challenges through deep listening – to ourselves, each other and Nature."4SD on engaging thousands with Food Systems Summit DialoguesPowerful Times interview with David NabarroLand of Eternal Hope: Ten Years of Lives Shared in Afghanistan, Charlotte's book which tells the story of her time in the country, and also gives voice to her Afghan friends on their stories.Polly Higgins' Earth is our Business.TaizeConscious Food Systems AllianceThe Art of Possibility by Zander and ZanderTimings0:50 - Q1 What are you doing now? And how did you get there?10:15 - Q2. What is the future you are trying to create, and why?18:23 Q3. What are your priorities for the next few years, and why?28:25 - Q4. If someone was inspired to follow those priorities, what should they do next?31:39 - Q5. If your younger self was starting their career now, what advice would you give them?33:04 - Q6. Who would you nominate to answer these questions, because you admire their approach?33:44 - Q7. Is there anything else important you feel you have to say?More here.Twitter: Powerful_TimesWebsite hub: here.Please do like and subscribe, to help others find the podcast.Thank you for listening! -- David

The United Nations through its Food and Agriculture Organisation has described rice production by smallholder farmers in Nigeria as a fantastic job. It stated that though there was still a lot that should be done in the agriculture sector in Nigeria, the country had made considerable progress in rice production. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa, Abebe Haile-Gabriel, disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja. Haile-Gabriel and the FAO Deputy Director of the Office of Emergencies and Resilience, Shukri Ahmed, are in Nigeria on a high-level mission to strengthen solidarity and amplify the voice of humanitarian actors in advocating support to stem food insecurity across the country.

As the world's leading soil scientists gather in Glasgow, we hear calls for a total re-think of how we measure soil health. According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, a third of agricultural soil is “moderately” to “highly” degraded, threatening global food supplies, increasing carbon emissions and reducing its capacity to hold water. But how do scientists evaluate the health of soil - and is the way they've been using the best one? As the Environment Agency declares July to have been the driest in England on record since 1935, two farmers in Suffolk tell us how their farms are affected. Is planting into dry ground worthwhile, and should they invest in new irrigation systems? And all this week we are talking about the issues faced by tenant farmers. Today we're in Gloucestershire with pig farmer Helen Wade, who would like to share her tenanted land with a new farmer. Presented by Caz Graham Produced in Bristol by Natalie Donovan

Sadhguru is a world-renowned yogi who is currently turning the world's attention to the quality of our soil. And it's the final week to enter Miss Tourism Giuseppe Catellaneta tells us more. Netty Thines talks about the Luxilux app to discover the city, and Sasha Kehoe gives us a round-up of the week's news. Sadhguru Sadhguru, 64, is a busy man. A man who only needs a first name. Perhaps you know of him due to his lifetime's work as a yogi and spiritual leader. Or you may have become more recently acquainted with his beneficent face as he travelled across 27 countries on his motorcycle: 30,000km in 100 days; raising awareness of his Save Soil campaign, generating the world's largest people's movement. In this interview he talks of the urgent action required in order to feed our soil, otherwise we in turn cannot be fed. Sadhguru has been talking to policy makers and farmers for over 30 years about the state of the soil, and says that no one took action. "30 years of soil degeneration - a good pillow to sleep on." Save Soil is a global response to this crisis. Across the world soil is dying. 52% of agricultural soil is already degraded. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation says we may have only 60 years of agriculture left if soil degradation continues, inevitably resulting in a global food crisis. Sadhguru's educational track did not follow what we, today, might consider to be the 'intellectual' path. And yet he always observed, listened and remains curious. His travels and ability to work with people all over the world means his observations are global. On education he says: "The biggest mistake we have made in the process of creating human societies is the way we have structured education. We have made people misunderstand that memory is intelligence." Sadhguru founded the Isha Foundation in 1994, which is a yoga and spiritual non-profit organisation. He is also the guide and inspiration for the Sadhguru Center for a Conscious Planet established by Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Center. Discover Luxembourg with Luxilux Netty Thines, a communication's expert and co-founder of Mediation, has recently launched Luxilux, a city app to discover Luxembourg's heritage with trails and tresure hunts, challenges and cultural highlights. There's even vouchers for free drinks and restaurant reductions. Today you can explore Luxembourg city and Esch Sur Alzette with, with Schifflange coming very soon. https://www.luxilux.lu/en/ Miss Tourism Luxembourg There's still one week to go to enter Miss Tourism Luxembourg: calling all females, 18-35 years old, 1.65 metres tall or above. You can apply online or by emailing miss@misstourismeluxembourg.lu Giuseppe Castellaneta tells us more. Get in touch I love to hear your feedback. You can get in touch on social media and please do subscribe, rate and review my podcast on Apple, and Spotify

Nearly 670 million people worldwide will be undernourished in 2030 according to The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, which published its annual assessment of global food security this week. The Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine are making things worse. We catch up with a Dutch man who farms in Ukraine. He's just begun this year's harvest but says they're running out of storage space for the grain and thinks yields will be affected by lack of fertiliser and seed. He warns that in some parts of the region, there may not be a harvest at all next year if the conflict continues. Leaving the European Union means the subsidy system for farmers is now a devolved decision. The Welsh Government has just announced more details of their new scheme. Farmers in Wales will have to cover at least 10% of their land with trees in order to qualify for public funding in future. Ministers insist they don't want to see widespread land use change, away from farming. All week on Farming Today we've been talking about rural tourism which brings in £4.5 billion to the UK economy every year, according to Visit England. We look at a herd of heritage animals in Northumberland. The Chillingham Wild Cattle Association is opening a new visitor centre to tell the story of the beasts which have never been farmed and used to be hunted. We look at the problems and solutions of too many tourists on Skye and visit a Devon farmer who opened a campsite under lockdown and says it's made a big difference to the farm business.

After making the necessary switches in agricultural practices, keeping a close watch on soil carbon content, ensuring you've got the right kind of investments and a foot in the door of the voluntary carbon market, what next? That's what this season finale of the Soilify Podcast is all about. Our guest today is Kirti Prasanna Mishra, co-founder of business consulting firm Ecociate. He talks to us about connecting with the right market for organic produce and finding an entrepreneur within the farmer. Shownotes: A survey of American consumers from the US-based International Food Information Council found that in 2020, 85% of those surveyed reported changes in their food habits. The number fell to 72% in 2021. Read more about it here. A list of abbreviations: FAO: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN FPO: Farmer Producer Organisation ICAR: Indian Council for Agricultural Research IFAD: International Fund for Agricultural Development KfW: Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (Credit Institute for Reconstruction) Music: This Science by Coma-Media

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 The Russia-Ukraine war has sent commodity prices soaring across the world. While some countries are halting exports to bring down the inflation, others are mulling rethinking their agricultural strategies.   India put a ban on wheat export to contain domestic prices, just a few days after Indonesia placed a similar ban on palm oil, only to relax it later. Some even call it “de-globalisation”, as food protectionism has been rising across the world. And it may further fuel global inflation.   So, is the world's food production keeping pace with the rising population?   Let us begin with a 1798 essay by Englishman Thomas Malthus. Malthus had said that population growth would outpace food production to cause shortages and famine.   Though not the first grim theory on population, “Malthusian catastrophe” was widely debated, and criticised too. Two years later, in 1801, the UK government went on to conduct the first census.   Malthus was proven wrong. But the theory again found resonance during the 1960s when newly independent countries wanted to be self-sufficient in food.   Their reason was not as much population sustenance but freedom from the shackles of dependence. India's green revolution was a step in that direction.   But times changed. Decades of peace and globalisation prompted most countries to liberalise trade rules for food commodities.   For instance, the rice trade increased 22 per cent between 2014 and 2022. Trade in wheat is expected to increase between 2017-18 and 2021-22 (July-June period), without any change in production over these years.   As the old world order is challenged, countries again fear running out of food grains. Europe is being criticised for its farm-to-fork strategy promoting sustainable farming.   A Business Standard analysis found food insecurity -- the number of people with insufficient access to food-- is a problem that was piling up for years when the Russia-Ukraine crisis accentuated it.   Data from Food and Agriculture Organisation's ‘The state of food security and nutrition in the world' report shows that worldwide, the number of moderat

The catastrophic consequences of global climate change have gone on way too far. Meanwhile, the demand for carbon is on the rise, and it's a market that's predicted to grow There is no sign of slowing down, and if continues to be credited a number of new grant programs could benefit farmers all over the country. Proper soil carbon management can not only retain more water, but can also restore the landscape, increase your yield, and give you access to necessary resources. Let's dig deeper into this as Louisa Kiely shares with us everything we need to know about carbon farming.   Who is Louisa Kiely? Louisa, Director of  Carbon Farmers of Australia, obtained her Bachelor of Agricultural Economics from the University of New England. She worked in the market research industry as a field supervisor while bringing up her 3 children. Together with her husband Michael, in 1991-2003 Louisa established and grew a city-based marketing agency from zero to 55 employees. In this business, she was Director and General Manager of Boomerang! Integrated Marketing & Advertising. Intent on following her first choice of career, she studied for the Advanced Diploma of Farm Management at Sydney University (Orange), trained in Holistic Management, and from 1998 to 2017 she was a woolgrower in the Wellington NSW district, growing fine Merino Wool. She was selected by the Central Western Catchment Management Authority as one of 10 highly innovative landholders in the Catchment, to be trained in farm planning and soil restoration. Through this training, she and Michael became convinced that soil carbon could solve many agricultural, environmental, and climate change problems. She co-founded the Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming in February 2006 to lobby for the right of Australian landholders to trade on the emissions offset market the credits they can earn by sequestering carbon in their soils. She has since traveled throughout Australia and internationally meeting scientists and farmers and spreading the word about Carbon Farming. She was invited to be a delegate at a Climate Change and Conservation Farming Conference in LaFayette, Indiana, organised by the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation. She was also a delegate at the National Carbon Offset Coalition Conference in Bozeman, Montana. She is co-founder of Carbon Farmers of Australia Pty Ltd (CFA). CFA also published the world's first Carbon Farming Handbook. Seeking to build bridges with the scientific community, she organised two Soil C Summits between Scientists and Farmers, in Dubbo and Orange NSW. And as co-founder of CFA, she organised and ran the world's first Carbon Farming Conference & Expo in November 2007. In 2019 the 9th National Carbon Farming Conference & Expo, the biggest yet with delegates from every state in Australia and from all over the world, was held. She developed the “CarbonCredited™” brand for wool and recruited woolgrowers into this emissions reduction program. Louisa has been recognized for her work and was chosen as runner up in the 2008 NSW Rural Woman of the Year. She has also sat on the board of the Regional Development Australia Committee – Orana Region. This intergovernmental committee was set up to ensure the future strength and development in rural and regional Australia. As director of Carbon Farmers of Australia Pty Ltd, she was a part of a consortium of 3 companies that developed the first Soil Carbon Methodology submitted to the Carbon Farming Initiative process. Carbon Farmers of Australia also offers farm-ready training in Carbon Farming and Trading. ---------- Website: https://carbonfarmersofaustralia.com.au/   Dig Deeper Club: https://soillearningcenter.com/digdeeper See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In its first episode Fearonomics: can we fix the looming food crisis? Jonathan Charles, EBRD's Managing Director, Communications, will be discussing the most pressing issues with Sergei Guriev, EBRD former Chief Economist and professor of economics at Science Po and Beata Javorcik, EBRD's Chief Economist (current) and also professor of Economics at Oxford University. They will explore a wide range of economic fears from global famine to energy security and the death of globalisation. In its first episode Fearonomics will be exploring whether the looming food crises is avoidable. Even before the war on Ukraine and the pandemic according to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation, 690 million people or 9% of the world's population, were already facing food insecurity and hunger. Now with Food Price Index reaching highest levels of all time, the consequences could be stark: from price hikes to social riots. Is there any way to avoid the catastrophe? Listen to the first episode of the Fearonomics on iTunes, SoundCloud or wherever you get your podcasts from. Review us podcast on iTunes or tweet us @EBRD #Fearonomics

Three more confirmed cases of Japanese encephalitis have been found in South Australian piggeries, UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation in Indonesia is working with the Indonesian government to contain an outbreak of lumpy skin disease in cattle and COVID has changed the nature of the job market and now a university study hopes to explore how small producers can make the most of the changing market.

Three more confirmed cases of Japanese encephalitis have been found in South Australian piggeries, UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation in Indonesia is working with the Indonesian government to contain an outbreak of lumpy skin disease in cattle and COVID has changed the nature of the job market and now a university study hopes to explore how small producers can make the most of the changing market.

Beef analyst Simon Quilty says Australian cattle producers may have been out manoeuvred by their United States competitors in the lucrative Japanese market after an announcement made overnight for the trans-pacific partnership trade deal and UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation in Indonesia's Dr Luuk Schoonman explains the Indonesian government has launched a major effort to contain an outbreak of lumpy skin disease and has started vaccinating thousands of cattle in an attempt to slow its spread.

While the Ukraine crisis has undoubtedly destabilised markets, they were already fragile. Inflation has been the key driver for this uncertainty, with CPI in the US tipping over 7%. For the first time in 40 years, investors need to contend with central banks tackling a sharply rising cost of living by raising interest ratesFood and fuel remain the key areas of rising prices. Labour shortages, rising processing costs and delivery concerns have pushed the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's price index up by nearly 50%. At the same time, energy prices have spiked in response to the Ukrainian crisis. Having initially considered inflation to be transitory, central banks are now starting to act. All eyes are on the Federal Reserve, which may raise rates for the first time since 2018 in its March meeting. This change of mood has delivered higher bond yields and may prompt a significant rotation in markets in the year ahead.SUBSCRIBEStay up to date with our latest insights, subscribe to our mailing list here and choose the topics you're interested in: https://bit.ly/2SKomDqGET IN TOUCH:Have any feedback? We're listening, email us at: podcast@smithandwilliamson.comFOLLOW US:Twitter - @SmithWilliamsonLinkedIn - @Smith&WilliamsonThis episode was recorded on 01/03/2021Capital at risk. Please remember the value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and investors may not receive back the original amount invested. Past performance is not a guide to future performance.This S&W The Pulse podcast is of a general nature and is not a substitute for professional advice. No responsibility can be accepted for the consequences of any action taken or refrained from as a result of what is said. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the presenter or of Smith & Williamson or any of its affiliates. No reproduction of this podcast may be made in whole or in part for professional or recreational purposes. No action should be taken based on this podcast and we accept no liability if we change your views on any of the subjects mentioned.Smith & Williamson Investment Management LLPAuthorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered No 580531 

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), small farmers produce a third of the world’s food. But despite that, farmers are still finding it difficulties to sell their crops. Shaad Hamid, General Manager, GrowthOps Singapore shares why agritech companies are facing challenges in the marketing front and the role GrowthOps have in helping a business through complex challenges.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's episode, I chat with Dr Juli-Anne Russo! An Aquaculture Scientist specialising in aquaculture biosecurity and nutrition for aquatic animals. She was an aquaculture Consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of United Nations (FAO) in the Aquaculture branch, and has also consulted for USAID, IDB and Compete the Caribbean. She volunteers with USAID, Farmer to Farmer and Winrock International to provide technical services to fish farmers in developing countries. Her interests are capacity building for fish farmers, women in aquaculture, aquaculture biosecurity, environmental sustainability and rural development. She is currently developing and delivering presentations on aquaculture production, fish health, biosecurity and disease prevention of cultured aquatic species to farmers in the Caribbean. Together we take a deep dive into Aquaculture in the Jamaica and the potential it has to grow as a sector across the region. To learn more about Dr Juli-Ann be sure to visit her website.

The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation has said that eating insects can help us fight hunger and malnutrition. This is considering they are rich in protein, and farming them can be more sustainable and environment-friendly. Now, even though the idea can invoke disgust, perhaps even shame, in many people, insects have been part of the human diet for centuries.In this episode, host Sandip Roy is joined by Srishtaa Aparna Pallavi and Tansha Vohra to talk about the past, present and future of eating insects in India. They discuss what insects are the most popular as food, why certain foods are considered inferior, the concerns around popularizing this practice, and their favourite insect recipes. Shrishta Aparna Pallavi, writes about indigenous people and their traditions and foods, and has given an acclaimed TED talk on what food our ancestors loved.Tansha Vohra is a permaculture designer, and runs the Boochi project, which explores insect eating in India.

Gabriella D'Cruz, from Goa, wants to improve diets, transform livelihoods, and protect the planet using an often-overlooked marine vegetable - seaweed. Ruth Alexander speaks to the ocean famer about her big plans for the underwater crop, and her hope that it could bring lasting economic and environmental change to India's coastal communities. Gabriella's passion and her project's potential saw her chosen by a panel of international judges as the winner of The Food Chain Global Youth Champion Award 2021. If you would like to get in touch with the show please email thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk. Producer: Simon Tulett Contributors: Gabriella D'Cruz, founder of The Good Ocean; Ismahane Elouafi, chief scientist at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. (Picture: Gabriella D'Cruz in the sea holding a basket of seaweed. Credit: Gabriella D'Cruz/BBC)

In this new episode of Defence Deconstructed, David Perry is joined by Julia Tasse to discuss how other countries are greening their armed forces. This episode is made possible thanks to the support of the Department of National Defence's MINDS program Defence Deconstructed is brought to you by Irving Shipbuilding and Boeing. Participant's Bio: Julia Tasse is a research fellow at IRIS, where she heads the Energy and Climate Program. She is the co-director (with François Gemenne) of the Observatory of Climate Change Impacts on Defense and Security of the French ministry of Armed Forces.   Her research focuses on the ocean, security and climate nexus from a geopolitical perspective. She has a specific approach linked to her background in climate sciences (Master in Environmental Sciences) and her experience in the maritime field for various organisations, among which the World Ocean Council, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN and the French development agency (Agence française de développement).   Sharing the academic management of the first year cursus of  IRIS Sup', she is also part of the editorial board of La Revue internationale et stratégique.   Julia Tasse holds a master in international relations and environmental policies from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), a master in environmental sciences from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and a bachelor in life sciences, major in genetics. Host Bio: Dave Perry (host): Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (www.cgai.ca/david_perry) Recording Date: 4 Oct 2021 Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on LinkedIn. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips

French Polynesia's president has announced amendments to the territory's vaccination law; Its Niue language week and we take a look at what you can do to get involved online; And we hear from the Food and Agriculture Organisation about work to improve the life of cocoa growers in PNG.

We are heavily assuming if you are reading this article you are already well educated on the nutrition and climate science that supports grass-fed, pasture-raised beef and lamb from New Zealand. But to also go on to assume that just because consumers may be wealthy and educated, doesn't necessarily mean they will choose to purchase red meat as often as they once did. They have been afforded the privilege of having a food identity. You can throw all of the complex science at the human health vs planetary health debate or the plant vs meat debate, but it will mean nothing without cohesive global storytelling as this week's guests from around the world highlight. Over the course of 3 months, Sarah Perriam has been collecting interviews from experts across the globe for this very special Opinion Maker episode to try and answer the burning question for New Zealand's sheep & beef farmers, "How does meat compete with the negative narrative globally?" This episode features : Prof. Frederic Leroy, Professor of Food Science and Biotechnology Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, presented at both the 2019 Red Meat Sector Conference (NZ) and presented at Multiscapes, the international virtual conference in 2021 (NZ) and explains the complex, binary discussion surrounding meat.  Fiona Windle, Head Nutritionist at Beef + Lamb NZ who highlights the ever-evolving narrative towards meat that lacks nutritional importance when discussing climate change off the back of the Barnsley report published in 2021 that illustrates substituting meat from the average diet would lead to only a 3-4% decrease in an individual's lifetime global warming impact. Anne Mottet, Sustainable livestock development at United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation, France, discusses balancing the Sustainable Development Goals of nutritional needs as discussed at the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit with the climate needs on the table at 2021 UN COP26.   Kate Gower-James, Aitkens Ranch based in San Francisco about the US Wholefoods consumer, the trends of food identity, trusting your meat marketer to keep up with the latest consumer trends, and how positioning accredited storytelling on meat is important. Laura Ryan, the co-founder of the Global Meat Alliance, has rallied the global red meat community to work together on the common challenges, collaborating through COVID in the lead-up to COP26. Dave Courtney, Silver Fern Farms chief customer officer discussing their research and pilot for carbon-neutral meat and regenerative agriculture and how NZ sheep & beef farmers can prepare themselves for these trends.

The importance of securing and ensuring sustainable use of the regions agricultural commodities, fisheries resources and forests was the underlying focus at the Seventh Regional Meeting of the Pacific Heads of Agriculture and Forestry Services (PHOAFS) held earlier this month. With a focus on food systems security, the region prepares to present a united voice at the inaugural UN Global Food System Summit and showcase how in the midst of the global pandemic the pacific people have and continue to persevere. The forum was hosted and chaired by the Government of Fiji in partnership with the Pacific Community (SPC), Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the Fiji Ministries of Agriculture and Forestry.

South Africa's tobacco farmers have been through hell and back since Covid-19 first hit. Yet, many experts believe that growing tobacco it still a viable option for new farmers. In this week's episode of Farmer's Inside Track, we share an exclusive tobacco farming guide. FarmSol boss Aron Kole shares his top farming tips for new farmers in Mzansi in our farmer development segment. Ever thought about the media's role to transform the global food system? Dr Brave Ndisale, South Africa's representative to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, unpacks this big question. This, as the countdown begins to an independent dialogue on the media's role ahead of the United Nations Food Systems Summit. Gauteng pig farmer Nthabiseng Mathebula encourages women who want to farm to go as big as they can, right from the beginning! She's been crowned as this week's #Soil Sista powered by Food For Mzansi and Corteva Agriscience. On the top of our book pile, is a global bestseller on how scientists, farmers and foodies are healing the soil to save the planet. And our farmer tip comes from Erasmus Sefoloshe, a Limpopo tobacco farmer.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Diego Von Vacano, a Bolivian political analyst . He discusses the protests in Cuba over a lack of Covid-19 vaccines, medical supplies and shortages in goods, the causes of Cuba's hardships and why the US economic blockade is the largest cause, mainstream media focus on anti-revolution Cubans in Miami, many of whom are descendants of those that benefited from the US-backed Batista regime, the chances of US intervention in Cuba and Bolivia, Bolivia's approach to accepting foreign investment, the country's turn to green energy, and much more! Finally, we speak to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation's chief economist, Maximo Torero. He discusses the large increase in chronically undernourished people around the world, how coronavirus lockdown-fuelled economic recessions have reduced incomes dramatically and fuelled the food security crisis, the role of climate change and conflicts in exacerbating world hunger, why the FAO 2021 report doesn't focus as much on hunger and poverty in Western countries, Cuba's successful elimination of hunger before the pandemic, and much more!

A major food and drink organisation has warned that food prices could rise by more than ten percent, owing to worker shortages caused by a combination of Brexit and Covid-19. And the effects of Covid-19 can be seen on access to food across the globe, a new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation reveals. It's agricultural shows week, but the pandemic has meant the Royal Welsh has been cancelled and moved online for the second year running, and for some farmers this leaves a huge hole in their calendar. Presenter: Anna Hill Producer in Bristol: Toby Field

"Rethinking Food & Agriculture" feat. Laila Kassam Laila Kassam has been involved in social change for most of her career. She has worked in the international development sector since 2003, conducting research on poverty and food security for rural development projects in the Global South. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and by international organisations including the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO). Laila has an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Development Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is a co-founder of the Veterinary Vegan Network, Ethical Globe and Animal Think Tank. She co-edited the anthology, "Rethinking Food & Agriculture: New Ways Forward," which features a number of well-known writers and activists including Rupert Sheldrake and Vandana Shiva. The volume contains three articles co-written by Laila, and discussing these was the bulk of our conversation. We talked about the role of animal domestication in the neolithic revolution; the concept of "misothery;" the so-called "green revolution" in 20th Century agriculture; alternative paradigms including conservation agriculture, organic agriculture, agroecology, and regenerative agriculture; how the question of either chemicals or animal inputs is a false choice; and the myth of food scarcity. We spent the last third of the interview talking about solutions: how we can make agriculture sustainable and just, which involves not just farming methods but also systemic economic and social changes. Excerpts from the book: inclusiveresponsibility.earth Episode introduction music is "Cool Swing" by frankumjay: https://freesound.org/people/frankum/sounds/320500/ RADIO FREE SUNROOT: Podcasting by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume https://radiofreesunroot.com KOLLIBRI'S BLOG & BOOKSHOP: https://macskamoksha.com/ ONE-TIME DONATION: http://paypal.me/kollibri https://venmo.com/Kollibri KOLLIBRI'S PATREON: Get access to members-only content https://www.patreon.com/kollibri Support Voices for Nature & Peace by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/voices-for-nature-and-peace This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-a50345 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Voices for Nature & Peace.

Herbal medicine has increasingly become more accepted in the west in recent years. Numerous studies have continued to show the therapeutic benefits that herbs have on the human body. In 2002 the Food and Agriculture Organisation estimated over 50,000 different types of medicinal herbs were used around the world. With so many medicinal herbs out there, knowing what herbs work for you and why can be a daunting endeavor to embark on. In this episode of The Sauna Show, we talked to Elvian Drysdale, an Australian naturopath, and owner of Mullum Herbals. Elvian explains the top 5 medicinal herbs that she supplies to her local region, what each of these medicinal herbs are used for, why they're important, and the common reasons why they're are prescribed. Elvian also speaks on the power of native herbs to regions and provides some social commentary on the industry of Chinese Medicine in the west. A fantastic episode that explores the powerful healing modalities native herbs can play in supporting a long and healthy lifestyle.

PARTICIPATORY MAPPING OF ANIMAL MOBILITY PATTERNS USING FAO'S EPIDEMIOLOGY VALUE CHAIN PLATFORMIntroductionStudies relating to animal movement patterns and are often conducted by academic authors, with dissemination of findings limited to grey literature and scientific journals. Consequently, objectives and outcomes may not incorporate the priorities of surveillance system actors or communicate results to stakeholders. The Food and Agriculture Organisations has developed a digital and interactive medium to facilitate and empower capacity building efforts related to market profiling and animal movement under its Epidemiology Value Chain (EVC) Platform, enabling users to maintain a live, online, and dynamic tool that can store, analyse, and display a magnitude of different data.Materials and methods ‘Open-source' electronic collection systems (e.g.EpiCollect5) allow national veterinary services to enter value chain locations and movement patterns. Data is continuously collected through interviews, expert opinion, or retrospectively via the collation of movement permits. Various ‘plug-in' applications allow for the visualisation of data via maps, statistics, or graphs. These are created in conjunction with national epidemiology units to ensure relevance for selecting and planning intervention options. Lastly, the application allows for dissemination of data to engage key stakeholders. Results Over 1000 bird markets and network connections were identified, profiled, and analysed across Viet Nam, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, and Mozambique. Data collection in Ghana continues in conjunction with the national epidemiology unit, including expansion to livestock markets and other value chain nodes.Discussion The mapping of epidemiological significant locations such as markets, abattoirs, and border points along with seasonal and quantified animal movement flows can be utilised by veterinary services to plan and run prevention and control interventions. The tool can rapidly increase country capacities to identify high risk locations, i.e. those in need of urgent biosecurity improvements or those that need to be targeted through surveillance. Furthermore, data can be updated in real-time to maintain the cost efficiency and effectiveness of interventions. R. Aguanno1,2, S. Von Dobschuetz1, S. Khomenko1, A. Tripodi1, W. Kalpravidh1, K. Sumption11Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Roma, Italia, 001532 Royal Veterinary College, University College London, 4 Royal College St, London, United Kingdom, NW1 0TUEuFMD Open Sessionwww.eufmdvirtual.com

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit - global trade ground to a halt. Around the world people were scrambling to buy essentials as supermarket shelves emptied. But the UAE, a country that relies on imports for more than 90% of its food supermarkets, appeared to have more than enough. The government repeatedly assured people there would be no shortages. This week, we hear from Maximo Torero Cullen, the chief economist of the Food and Agriculture Organisation at the UN, and Kyle Wagner, Head of Operations at Madar Farms, about how the UAE began preparing for a food crisis over a decade ago. We also hear from Nicole Rogers, founder and CEO of Agripocity, a UAE-based company that connects farmers directly to the international marketplace.

PKN Managing Editor & Publisher Lindy Hughson is joined by Karli Verghese and Nerida Kelton. Karli is the Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow in Industrial Design at RMIT and the Reduce Program Leader at the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). Nerida is the Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), and project lead for the Save Food Packaging project in the Fight Food Waste CRC.We start the episode by noting that food waste is a major environmental problem that was recently highlighted by the UN's Food & Agriculture Organisation which held the first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste on the 29th of September. Here in Australia, over 7.3 million tonnes of food is wasted annually across the supply and consumption chain with 34% of that waste being in the home.Karli provides an overview of the Fight Food Waste CRC and her role there along with a summary of the insights being gained from the various projects currently underway within the CRC. After this, Nerida describes how the AIP is involved with CRC, establishing guidelines to help packaging technologists minimise food waste across the chain, including in the home. This leads to a discussion about awareness of packaging's ability to reduce food waste and how there can be no solution to food waste without collaboration between all parties involved in the chain.The discussion then moves on to the importance of design and the use of active and intelligent packaging to prevent damage and spoilage, extend shelf life and preserve and enhance product appeal while still providing convenience and also communicating to consumers how to handle, store, prepare and reuse food products. We also discuss the changes in packaging to accommodate the shift in home sizes, where many people now are cooking for only one or two people, not a whole family. Examples of innovative designs include Woolworths' new recyclable meat packaging and Hazeldene Chicken's recyclable, freezer-ready packaging that extends shelf life and which won the WorldStar Packaging that Saves Food Award this year.The concern is raised that accommodating smaller portion sizes can lead to more packaging but this can be balanced through innovative design that better accommodates recycling and a reduction in food wastage. This highlights the importance of taking a holistic view of the entire chain to determine the trade-offs between packaging and reduction of waste.We wrap up the episode with a view of the current status projects within the CRC and AIP along with the plans they have for the short to medium term, including activities associated with next year's International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste.------------------------------The PKN Podcast is produced by Southern Skies Media on behalf of PKN Packaging News, owned and published by Yaffa Media.The views of the people featured on this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of PKN Packaging News, Yaffa Media, or the guest's employer. The contents are copyright by Yaffa Media.If you wish to use any of this podcast's audio, please contact PKN Packaging News via their website www.packagingnews.com.au or send an email to editor@packagingnews.com.au.MC: Grant McHerronHost: Lindy HughsonProducer: Steve VisscherPKN Packaging News - © 2020

The Zimbabwean government is busy with extradition processes to bring home former President Robert Mugabe’s allies who fled during the November 2017 coup. South Africa's Co-Operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Department confirms that the summer male initiation custom will be permitted, but under strict conditions. The Food and Agriculture Organisation has described the Democratic Republic of Congo's food insecurity situation as very critical.

What is Amazon deforestation? Thanks for asking!Situated in South America, the Amazon tropical rainforest is home to somewhere between 50 and 70% of the world’s biodiversity, according to the World Wildlife Fund.It stretches across Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Ecuador, Bolivia and most of all Brazil, which contains 60% of the Amazon alone.Huge fires are currently ripping through various parts of the rainforest, which could end up being even worse than the 2019 outbreak. This is closely linked to the issue of deforestation.After more than a decade of downward trajectory, Amazon deforestation has risen abruptly in the last two years. We’ve been talking about deforestation in the Amazon for a long time; when did it actually start? Deforestation began in the 1960s, but went up considerably between 1991 and 2003. Several local, national and international factors are to blame. There have been huge peaks in deforestation over the years, while measures taken by former Brazilian President Lula had some impact in slowing the rate in the first decade of the 21st century. In 2009, a Greenpeace report claimed that 80% of the deforested area in Brazil was being used for cattle farming. Soy plantations were also cited as a key problem. Trees are cut down for timber, then the cleared land is used for grazing cattle or cultivating soybeans.In the first six months of 2020, 3000km2 of forest have been cut down.The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation has stated that Brazil is the country where the most forest has been lost in the last decade.What has happened since Jair Bolsonaro became head of state in Brazil? Unfortunately, it’s had a real negative impact. When Bolsonaro became President in January 2019, deforestation immediately increased by 54%. And that trend has continued since. Bolsonaro encouraged cattle farmers and miners to ramp up operations in the Amazon. Their deforestation is often illegal, with many accused of deliberately starting fires to free land for their activities. In 2019, exports of beef from the region went up 32%.In addition to destroying biodiversity, deforestation threatens the lives of native tribes living in the Amazon. In 2020, the Brazilian government proposed a draft bill allowing mining and farming to take place on indigenous lands.Human activity and global warming are pushing the situation to a point of no return. Scientists say it may already be too late for the Amazon rainforest to regenerate. A few different scenarios have been outlined. The World Bank claims that 40% of the Amazon will have disappeared by 2050. Meanwhile, the WWF believes it could be as much as 55% by 2030. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Genevieve Leveille, Founder and CEO of AgriLedger, a blockchain solution built on  R3’s Corda which has been used to support fruit growers out of Haiti. In this podcast, Genevieve shares with us how their solution enables supply chain through the use of value chain – value transfer and value retention throughout. She also shares how AgriLedger has helped farmers in Haiti get a 750% increase in revenue per kilo of quality mangos sold.   What is blockchain? For Genevieve, blockchain is an infrastructure technology. Blockchain is a mechanism to allow different parties, with different needs, to collaborate and create information exchange. It’s about capturing data in a fashion that is known to be true at the moment of capture. Genevieve is interested in the application of blockchain technology for the food industry. She explains that having food poisoning is usually due to the fact that you don’t know where the food came from, if it had the right refrigeration and other factors which blockchain could address.   Challenges of the Agro-Food Industry According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO): “An estimated 30% of the food produced for human consumption globally is lost or wasted somewhere along the food supply chain.” the world’s population is predicted to reach 9.1 billion by 2050 and this will require an increase of 70% in food availability. “Smallholders provide up to 80 percent of the food supply in Asian and sub-Saharan Africa.” At the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced a new global challenge for world leaders and individuals from all sectors: create a world where no one is hungry. He emphasized that there is enough food in the world to feed our population, so the challenge comes from making sure that everyone has access to the food they need to live happy, healthy lives. Ban called this initiative the Zero Hunger Challenge.   The Zero Hunger Challenge has five pillars: 100% access to food and nourishment all year round Ending stunting among children under two years of age Making all food systems more sustainable Doubling productivity and income for smallholder farmers Reducing food waste and post-harvest losses In spite of efforts to meet the zero hunger challenge, global hunger has been increasing even before the coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations has warned, putting its Zero Hunger 2030 target in doubt. An annual study estimates almost 690 million people went hungry in 2019 – up by 10 million from 2018 and by nearly 60 million in five years according to the latest edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI).Across the globe, the Covid-19 crisis could tip over 130 million more people into chronic hunger by the end of 2020, the report predicts. According to Oxfam: “COVID-19 is deepening the hunger crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots and creating new epicentres of hunger across the globe. By the end of the year 12,000 people per day could die from hunger linked to COVID-19, potentially more than will die from the disease itself.” With classrooms closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two UN agencies are urging governments to act now to shore up the futures of the 370 million children worldwide who depend on school meals. Genevieve disagrees with the point that 30% of the food produced is wasted as this only measures food going from the farm to the table. It doesn’t measure the amount of food that goes into the fridge and that is ultimately thrown out. In her opinion it isn’t that we’re not producing enough food to feed everybody, it is that we’re wasting so much of it, or we don’t know where it is and it isn’t going to the right places. She believes that if we change and we reduce the amount of ways we handle food we can get closer to zero hunger. In addition to those challenges as there is a drop-in remittance coming in,

In the natural carbon cycle, only 1% of carbon enters back to the soil and rest 99% of carbon goes to the atmosphere during decomposition of plant waste. We all know that carbon is the key element of all life forms but at the same time CO2 emissions are one of the factor for climate crisis. Additionally, the world depends on the top soil for food and the fact is soil degradation is rapidly becoming the biggest challenge of humankind. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation calculated that we have about 60 years of harvests left. What do we do then?Join me in listening to Henrietta Kekäläinen, co-founder and CEO of Carbo Culture who is working on a technology producing bio-carbon. She talks about how bio-carbon/biochar can be used to capture the carbon in the soil and replenish the degraded soil. Cleaning the air and making healthy soil!Carbo Culture - https://www.carboculture.com/Join Carbo Collective - https://carboculture.typeform.com/to/tglAui

Does farming as we know it have a future? We hear from those who argue biotechnology is about to disrupt agriculture for good. Shifting diets and food sources will put one million US farming jobs at risk, according to futurist Tony Seba of the think-tank Rethink X. But cattle farmers are not about to give up their livelihoods so easily. We hear from British farmer Andrew Loftus and Danielle Beck of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association in the US. Manuela Saragosa also speaks to Henning Steinfeld at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation. Producers: Laurence Knight and Szu Ping Chan. (Photo: a cow in a field. Credit: Getty Images)

Asian Insider Ep 35: Crash in global remittance deepens poverty in Asia 21:57 mins Synopsis: Every Friday, together with our stable of 30 correspondents based around the world, The Straits Times gives an Asian perspective on the global talking points of the week. In this episode, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh hosts Aziz Elbehri of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and Kunda Dixit, editor of Nepali Times, to discuss the risks ahead as migrant workers across Asia are badly hit. Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh Edited by: ST Video team and Penelope Lee Follow Asian Insider Podcast series and rate us on: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWaB Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sgSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Asian Insider Ep 35: Crash in global remittance deepens poverty in Asia 21:57 mins Synopsis: Every Friday, together with our stable of 30 correspondents based around the world, The Straits Times gives an Asian perspective on the global talking points of the week. In this episode, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh hosts Aziz Elbehri of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and Kunda Dixit, editor of Nepali Times, to discuss the risks ahead as migrant workers across Asia are badly hit. Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh Edited by: ST Video team and Penelope Lee Follow Asian Insider Podcast series and rate us on: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWaB Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How has the pandemic affected the global food supply? That's the subject of a recent report by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. Their message is that while there have been a few industry issues so far - overripe fruit left unpicked, spoiled batches of milk left undelivered - that's only a taste of what's to come if there's a huge global recession around the corner. Chris Smith and spoke to Maximo Torero - the organisation's chief economist - as well as University of Cambridge land economist Shailaja Fennell... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

How has the pandemic affected the global food supply? That's the subject of a recent report by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. Their message is that while there have been a few industry issues so far - overripe fruit left unpicked, spoiled batches of milk left undelivered - that's only a taste of what's to come if there's a huge global recession around the corner. Chris Smith and spoke to Maximo Torero - the organisation's chief economist - as well as University of Cambridge land economist Shailaja Fennell... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic efforts to counter massive swarms of locusts across East Africa have continued. In many places this has been very effective, killing up to 90% of locusts. However, the threat of repeated waves of locusts remains says Cyril Ferrand, who leads the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's Resilience Team in East Africa. Conversely West Africa is unaffected by locusts and with a block on imports local producers have seen demand grow for their produce, an unusual positive effect from the pandemic according to Sandrine Dury from the French agricultural research agency CIRAD. We examine the potential for a second wave of coronavirus as many countries relax lockdown measures, businesses reopen and mass protests take to the streets. Epidemiologist Carl Bergstrom is interested in working out which of these movements is likely to have the most impact. And from South Africa, how radio telescope engineers there have turned their hands to developing new ventilators appropriate for regional needs. And we were bowled over by a question from one CrowdScience listener in Australia wants to know how likely it is that the atoms in his body have been used in someone else’s body? We all like to think we are unique; no one is quite like us. But is that really true? Presenter Marnie Chesterton tackles Moshe’s question with help from every area of science. From geologists helping us work out how many atoms are on the Earth’s surface to biologists helping us work out how many atoms each body uses. Perhaps we are much less special than we think.

Dr. Juan Lubroth takes us on his journey from becoming a wildlife Veterinarian to being Veterinary Chief Officer at FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation). As a wildlife Veterinarian, Dr. Juan Lubroth attended and is a co-author of the "Manhattan Principles", which formalized the One Health concept in 2004. His knowledge in Public Health and One Health is immense and his perspectives on the global challenges that we're are currently facing bring a great understanding of what needs to be improved in order to bring the One Health approach more into live.During this interview we cover different topics ranging from antimicrobial resistances, to waste management, wet market regulations and the role of Veterinarians during the Covid-19 pandemia. Enjoy!Links mentioned on the episode:12 Manhattan Principles:http://www.wcs-ahead.org/manhattan_principles.htmlFAO World Livestock 2013 - Changing Diseases Landscapeshttp://www.fao.org/3/i3440e/i3440e.pdfConnect with Sara Perestrelo (host):https://www.crackingonehealth.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/saraperestrelo/If you like today’s episode, then please subscribe and leave a review so more people can learn about the podcast. Thank you!

What are desert locusts?Desert locusts are a type of insect which have been threatening agricultural production in Africa, Asia and the Middle East for centuries. They are phytophagous, which means they feed on plants. In early 2020, these locusts have invaded several countries in East Africa, destroying vegetation everywhere they go. Experts fear the risk of famine, in a part of the world where many already live with food insecurity. To really understand what’s brought about the current upsurge, you have to go back to May 2018 and the Empty Quarter desert in the Arabian Peninsula. A cyclone and heavy rains created a warm, wet climate, which was ideal for desert locusts to breed and flourish. This area has no roads and is therefore not closely monitored by humans. A second cyclone later the same year enhanced this problem, with three generations of breeding occurring undetected. The locusts started migrating towards Yemen, where a civil war prevented any intervention, and then onto the horn of Africa. Just as countries were trying to contain the breeding in late 2019, Tropical Cyclone Pawan struck. The situation was already becoming out of control and it has only gotten worse since.Somalia has declared a state of emergency, while several other countries are already facing their worst infestation for decades. There were six major locust outbreaks in the 20th century, with the last taking place between 1987 and 1989. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, desert locusts appeared at the border with South Sudan and Uganda at the end of February 2020. That was the first time since 1944, when the insects caused a famine. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation has already confirmed this is the worst locust outbreak to hit the Horn of Africa for 25 years. Many are already referring to the current situation as a plague, and there’s no telling how much worse it could get. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr Sophie Chao spoke to Dr Natali Pearson about her anthropological research in West Papua, reflecting on the challenges of conducting anthropological research, her transition from activist to academic, and the palm oil industry's impact on the Marind communities of West Papua, Indonesia. About Sophie Chao: Sophie joined the University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in History in 2019. Her research interests include human-plant relations, multispecies ethnography, race and human difference, ontological anthropology, biocapitalism, colonial and postcolonial studies, post-humanism, phenomenology, and the senses. Sophie previously worked for international indigenous rights organization Forest Peoples Programme in the United Kingdom and Indonesia and has published over thirty works on human rights and the palm oil sector in Southeast Asia. She has also undertaken consultancies for United Nations bodies including the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the United Nations Working Group on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises. Sophie's postdoctoral project will weave together social science methods (including history), science and technology studies, and biomedicine to examine the nutritional and health impacts of agribusiness on humans and their environments in Indonesia. Sophie is also interested in research development more generally and looks forward to engaging in inter-disciplinary collaboration on food, culture, and nutrition with members of the Department of History, the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, other departments in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences more generally, and the Charles Perkins Centre. You can follow Dr Sophie Chao on Twitter @Sophie_MH_Chao

Over the last decade, indigenous Marind communities in the rural district of Merauke, West Papua, have seen vast swaths of their forests and savannas razed to make way for monocrop oil palm plantations. These developments are promoted by the Indonesian government as part of efforts to achieve national self-sufficiency in basic commodities, including palm oil, sugar, and rice. On the ground, however, agribusiness expansion is undermining the local food and water security of Marind communities, who have traditionally relied on the forest for their subsistence. Dr Sophie Chao spoke to Dr Natali Pearson about the interconnections between processed food, hunger and Indigenous sovereignty in West Papua. About Sophie Chao: Sophie joined the University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in History in 2019. Her research interests include human-plant relations, multispecies ethnography, race and human difference, ontological anthropology, biocapitalism, colonial and postcolonial studies, post-humanism, phenomenology, and the senses. Sophie previously worked for international indigenous rights organization Forest Peoples Programme in the United Kingdom and Indonesia and has published over thirty works on human rights and the palm oil sector in Southeast Asia. She has also undertaken consultancies for United Nations bodies including the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the United Nations Working Group on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises. Sophie's postdoctoral project will weave together social science methods (including history), science and technology studies, and biomedicine to examine the nutritional and health impacts of agribusiness on humans and their environments in Indonesia. Sophie is also interested in research development more generally and looks forward to engaging in inter-disciplinary collaboration on food, culture, and nutrition with members of the Department of History, the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, other departments in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences more generally, and the Charles Perkins Centre. You can follow Dr Sophie Chao on Twitter @Sophie_MH_Chao View the transcript here: https://bit.ly/3b8Ha37

In order to limit global temperatures to 1.5C, greenhouse gas emissions must fall 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 and to net zero by 2050, according to the IPCC. This reduction is required at a time of rapidly expanding food production. It is estimated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation that food and feed production will need to increase by 70% by 2050 to meet the world's food needs. To meet climate targets and avoid the impending climate catastrophe, food companies must radically adapt practices. And with the clock ticking, the next 10 years will be critical. In this webinar, an expert panel discusses: What leading food brands are currently doing to reduce climate impacts The real-world practicalities: Science based targets are fine, but how can we actually reach them? How to effectively scale up initiatives that absorb carbon, such as land restoration and increasing biodiversity Assess how brands can map the route to 2030 for effective implementation. Panel: Christine McGrath, vice president and chief of global impact, sustainability, and well-being, Mondelēz International Jon Hixson, vice president of government relations and global citizenship, Yum! Brands Anna Turrell, head of sustainability, Nestlé UK and Ireland Hosted by Ian Welsh

During the Presentation of the Warwick project on development of the simulation model for FMD control in endemic areas held in Rome at the FAO HQ on November 22nd , 2019, we spoke with Dr Michael Tildesley and Glen Guyver-Fletcher. We discussed the challenges of developing models for FMD endemic settings.. Mike Tildesley is an Associate Professor in the Mathematics Institute and the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick. Dr Tildesley works upon the development of mathematical models of livestock and zoonotic infectious disease and their utility as predictive tools. He worked extensively on FMD in the aftermath of the UK 2001 outbreak, developing a model to determine optimal strategies for disease control in the event of future outbreaks. More recently, he has worked on model development in situations where precise demographic and disease incidence data are not available, with a focus on diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, avian influenza, bovine Tuberculosis, rabies and lumpy skin disease. Dr Tildesley works closely with national policy makers and non-government organisations having previously advised the UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Department of Agriculture, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) upon strategies for disease control.. Mr. Glen Guyver-Fletcher is a current PhD student working with Dr Mike Tildesley at the University of Warwick. Previously he completed an undergraduate degree in biology and worked as an intern at EuFMD, assisting in the organization of the 2018 Open Session. Currently he is modelling the spread of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the Republic of Turkey, in an effort to compare and contrast control measures for the disease.

Each year it is estimated that a staggering 1.6 billion tonnes of food worth approximately $1.2 trillion USD goes to waste. This equates to around one third of the food produced globally. At the same time, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation states that around 815 million people – 10.7% of the global population – are suffering from chronic undernourishment. Addressing the problem of food sustainability and unnecessary waste is likely to become even more pressing in future, with the earth's population predicted to rise to approximately 9 billion by 2050. This increase, accompanied by a steady trend towards urbanisation, will place enormous demands on the global food supply. So, what role can we play in terms of addressing the social and environmental impact of unsustainable food practices and the waste that can result? In this episode of the QMS Good Business Podcast, Dr Laura Steele is joined by Kerry Melville, of the Belfast Food Network and Jilly Dougan, author, activist, and entrepreneur for a wide-ranging discussion around these issues. It just might inspire you to pick up a trowel! Links & Resources Belfast Food Network on Facebook: www.facebook.com/belfastfoodnetwork Belfast Sustainable Food Cities Award Bid: www.sustainableni.org CCEA 'Growing for the Future': www.ccea.org.uk/growing/september.php ‘Sow, Grow, and Munch' by Jilly Dougan (PDF Book): www.eefni.org.uk/cmsfiles/Sow_Grow-Munch.pdf Guests: Kerry Melville, Belfast Food Network and Jilly Dougan, Jilly Dougan Edible Gardens Host: Dr Laura Steele, Queen's Management School Sound Engineering: John Woods, Queen's Management School

Plant pathogens are just as much of a risk to crop production as the effects of drought or climate change.In this episode, Professor Mark Gibberd, from the Centre for Crop and Disease Management, explains how scientists are combatting these pathogens to ensure food security now and into the future.What's being done to combat plant pathogens? (2.35)What role do fungicides play? (6.57)How does the grains industry need to prepare for the future? (10.35)Will we be able to sustainably feed everyone? (14.27)LinksCentre for Crop and Disease ManagementFood and Agriculture Organisation of the United NationsGrains Research and Development CorporationSubscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle PodcastsRSSCurtin University supports academic freedom of speech. The views expressed in The Future Of podcast may not reflect those of the university.Music: OKAY by 13ounce Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 Music promoted by Audio LibraryYou can read the full transcript for the episode here.

With a growing global population we hear about technology that will help feed the world. Lorenzo Giovanni is senior economist at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome, and outlines the challenges farmers around the world are facing. Ben Crowther, co-founder of agriculture startup LettUs Grow, explains how their novel indoor growing scheme could benefit agriculture. And Sam Watson-Jones, co-founder of Small Robot discusses how micro robots could help make farming more efficient. Also in the programme, China is marking 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic. We hear about some of the country's economic challenges and opportunities from Shirley Yu, senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics. Plus, a spying operation at Swiss bank Credit Suisse has led to the resignation of one of its top bankers. David Crow is banking editor at the Financial Times, and tells us the background.

Over recent years, concerns about Indonesia's food security have seen a sharp increase in industrial-scale agriculture across the country, including into the forests of West Papua. At the same time, the environmental and social ramifications of monocropping, particularly palm oil, are becoming well-known. Are the customary rights of indigenous peoples being respected in negotiations over land for agribusiness? What exactly is "sustainable palm oil"? And what are the impacts of palm oil plantation expansion on the forests and peoples whose culture and livelihoods are inextricably linked to the forests? In Talking Indonesia this week, Dr Jemma Purdey speaks to anthropologist Dr Sophie Chao, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Sydney’s School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and an honorary postdoctoral fellow at Macquarie University, about her research with the indigenous Marind peoples of Merauke district in West Papua. Dr Chao previously worked for indigenous peoples rights organisation Forest Peoples' Programme and has undertaken consultancies for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation and the United Nations Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations. In 2019, the Talking Indonesia podcast is co-hosted by Dr Jemma Purdey from the Australia-Indonesia Centre, Dr Dave McRae from the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute, Dr Charlotte Setijadi from the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore and Dr Dirk Tomsa from La Trobe University. Look out for a new Talking Indonesia podcast every fortnight. Catch up on previous episodes here, subscribe via iTunes or listen via your favourite podcasting app. Photo: David Gilbert/RAN

We need to transform the way we grow food if we are to head off disaster - so say leading agronomists. But can it be done? The modern agricultural industry, borne out of the Green Revolution that has multiplied crop yields since the 1960s, has contributed to multiple new crises - obesity, soil degradation, collapsing biodiversity and climate change. To address this "paradox of productivity" a whole new revolution is needed, according to Professor Tim Benton of the University of Leeds and think tank Chatham House. The BBC's Justin Rowlatt travels to the world's longest running scientific experiment, a collection of wheat fields dating back to the 1840s at the Rothamsted agricultural research centre just outside London, to ask resident scientist John Crawford whether our past success in staving off global hunger can be sustained in the coming decades. Plus what role should the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation play, especially as that body prepares to appoint new leadership? Justin speaks to the former UN Rapporteur for the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter. Producer: Laurence Knight (Picture: The Broadbalk research wheat fields at Rothamsted; Credit: BBC)

Choosing when to harvest as well as storage poses big problems for African farmers. The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that around a third of food is wasted globally every year. In Africa, that number can be as high as 50%. This is of major concern given the continent’s population increase. The problem begins the minute farmers have harvested. This is because choosing when to harvest, as well as storage, are big problems. In this week’s edition of Pasha, Jane Ambuko, a senior lecturer and head of horticulture at the University of Nairobi, takes us deeper into the issue of post harvest losses and why they’re such a big issue. Read more: Why reducing post-harvest losses is a priority for Africa Photo: African farm worker is scattering corn kernels from a gunny bag, onto tarpaulins, for drying in the sun. Other farm workers and machinery are in the background. By Jen Watson. Shutterstock Music “Happy African Village” by John Bartmann found on FreeMusicArchive.org licensed under CC0 1. Sounds “Kenya roadside market” found on Youtube licensed under Creative commons. “Naiwasha Lake flower factory Kenya” by Peterkotrha found on Freesound licensed under creative commons. “Naiwasha Lake water pumps Kenya” by Peterkotrha found on Freesound licensed under creative commons. “Mbira” by Strongbot found on Freesound licensed under creative commons.

When I was over in Copenhagen last year for a few days, I got in touch with Selina Juul – founder of the organisation Stop Wasting Food - to see if she would be willing and able to be interviewed, and she very kindly said she was. The day we arranged to meet Selina was being interviewed and participating in a panel discussion at a national radio station, which I was able to sit in on. After which we found a suitable space to conduct this interview. Those people who keep an eye on all things food waste will no doubt be aware of Selina and the work she does. She has achieved an incredible amount both as an individual – from speaking in front of the European Parliament and the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, to being awarded Dane of the Year in 2014 – and through the Stop Wasting Food movement, which Selina started in 2008, which itself has won many awards and contributed significantly to raising awareness and reducing food waste in Denmark, by engaging politicians, supermarkets and households. The organisation has also been a key contributor to the EU’s own resolutions against food waste. This episode is also available as a video, which you can watch on YouTube at foodiswasted.com/youtube If you would like to read about and see what I’ve witnessed while documenting the issue over the past few years – in cities and on farms across Europe, then visit the Food Is Wasted website at foodiswasted.com You can find out more about the work Selina and her organisation does at stopwastingfoodmovement.org

IntroductionStephen Wiedemann is a leading expert on Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) for livestock systems. In this podcast interview, he shares the latest research results on the LCA for wool. He gives details on research conducted on different areas of the wool supply chain including the manufacturing stage and consumer use stage. Stephen also talks about the importance of the wool industry engaging with retailers and brands to explain why the Life Cycle of wool is different and how brands need to take this into account when calculating their product footprints. About Stephen WiedemannSteve is an agricultural systems scientist and principal at Integrity Ag Services. Steve's professional experience is focussed on livestock production and supply chains, resource management, sustainability and environmental regulation. With over 30 peer-reviewed publications and 17 focussed on life cycle assessment, Steve is a science leader in the fields of greenhouse gas, water assessment, energy, nutrient and land management in livestock systems. Steve is an advisor to the Australian Government Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Emission Reduction Fund teams. Steve is also a technical advisory member of the Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) partnership, a global initiative coordinated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. Steve has been working on sheep and wool related life cycle assessment projects over the past 10 years and has six major LCA publications in this area. Steve comes from a family farming background with sheep and wool, cattle and cropping in northern NSW, where he now owns manages a small farming operation. Connect with Stephen Wiedemann hereWebsite of http://www.integrityag.net.au/ (IntegrityAg)http://www.iwto.org/work/wool-LCA (IWTO LCA Technical Advisory Group) IWTO LCA Guidelines IWTO Fact Sheets SIFO Wool use review SIFO microplastics  Key Time Stamps[spp-timestamp time="00:53"] About Stephen Wiedemann [spp-timestamp time="01:47"] About Integrity AgServices [spp-timestamp time="02:24"] About the IWTO LCA Technical Advisory Group [spp-timestamp time="03:09"] About Life Cycle Assessment? [spp-timestamp time="05:26"] Why is it important for the wool industry to undertake LCAs? [spp-timestamp time="06:38"] Do other textile fibres do LCA research? [spp-timestamp time="07:39"] What topics did the LCA TAG work on recently? [spp-timestamp time="09:59"] LCA on the wool processing stage [spp-timestamp time="13:15"] The use and reuse phase of the wool life cycle [spp-timestamp time="19:35"] How to apply the research results [spp-timestamp time="22:00"] Why is it important to engage with brands and retailers on LCA? [spp-timestamp time="23:04"] Can wool make a difference in the LCA space? [spp-timestamp time="26:43"] What other LCA research needs to be done?  Similar podcast episodes you may likehttp://elisabethvandelden.podcastwebsites.com/015/ (#015 Beverley Henry from the Queensland University of Technolgy about LCA)http://elisabethvandelden.podcastwebsites.com/020-dalena-white-iwto/ (#019 Kjersti Kviseth from 2025 Design from Norway about the circular economy)http://elisabethvandelden.podcastwebsites.com/030-ingun-klepp/ (#030 Ingun Klepp from the Consumption Research Norway about wool sustainability)http://elisabethvandelden.podcastwebsites.com/036-dave-maslen/ (#036 Dave Maslen from New Zealand Merino about research on sustainability)http://elisabethvandelden.podcastwebsites.com/041-graham-ormondroyd/ (#041 Graham Ormondroyd from the BioComposites Centre at Bangor University in the UK about bio-composites)

Dan Saladino looks at ideas that could make an impact on our food future featuring America's Impossible Burger, a Sardinian maggot infested cheese and mussels being grown in downtown Copenhagen. Most people are aware of the challenges that lie ahead linked to predictions of population growth peaking at 9bn by 2050 but who is coming up with ideas of how we can feed more people with a finite amount of land, water and other resources? Dan looks at three ideas that provide an insight into work underway to find solutions. The expert on the science of cooking Harold McGee, author of On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, tells the story of The Impossible Burger, a decade long endeavour, based in California, to find a plant based replica of beef and burger patties. Impossible Foods was founded by a bio-chemist Professor Patrick Brown. Because he was approaching the problem of rising global meat consumption from outside of the food industry he was forced to ask some very basic questions, most important of which was "why does meat taste like meat"? One of the answers Pat Brown discovered was a molecule called heme. He also knew heme could be found in plants. The outcome of years of work and millions of dollars of investment is The Impossible Burger. It's aimed not at vegetarians or vegans but meat lovers and has been designed to have the meaty, bloody juiciness of a real burger. Harold McGee describes the science behind the burger and the experience of eating one. By the way, listen out for the traditional Sardinian music "Su Cuntrattu de Seneghe" performed by Antonio Maria Cubadda who is from Seneghe town. The next future food story has its origins in Sardinia and a cheese called Casu Marzu. As the cheese ferments a fly called the Cheese Skipper is attracted by the aromas being released and lays its eggs inside the cheese. The larvae then hatch and start to digest the proteins and turn a hard textured cheese into a soft one. The cheese is then eaten while the wriggling maggots are still alive within the cheese. A researcher working for the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation's Edible Insect project, Afton Halloran went in search of the cheese as a rare example of a European food involving edible insects. In Sardinia she met a chef Roberto Flore . They eventually married and since, have travelled the world in search of other examples of edible insects that could provide a clue to future foods. They tell Dan the story of the cheese and the conclusions they've reached so far when it comes to the potential of insects in feeding the world. The final story comes from Copenhagen where Joachim Hjer is attempting to get people in the city to grown their own mussels in the heart of the city. In the studio with Dan is Dr Morgaine Gaye, a "Food Futurologist" who explains which of the three stories she believes will be the one to watch in 2018. Presented and produced by Dan Saladino.

In this episode, I talk about my beef with Veganism. I explain why, after a 30-day vegan challenge, I remain a sceptical vegetarian. I talk about: How Vegan-endorsed health hypes and food fads create their own ethical dilemmas which vegans need to confront How the ‘Go Vegan, save the planet’ discourse is unhelpful for the movement, and factually questionable. How Veganism needs to move away from a self-understanding as the movement, and instead embrace its place as a movement among many (imperfect) dietary movements that support a move away from factory farming and industrial food production Links: UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (2013) ‘Tackling climate change through livestock’  Springman, A., Godfray, C.J., Rayner, M., Scarborough, P. (2016) ‘Analysis and valuation of the health and climate change cobenefits of dietary change’ Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences Vol. 113, No. 15  Blythman, J. (2016) ‘Can hipsters stomach the unpalatable truth about avocado toast?’ The Guardian (Opinion) Gray, Margaret (2013) Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic. University of California Press. Lawrence, Felicity (2011) ‘Spain’s salad growers are modern-day slaves, say charities’ The Guardian  World Economic Forum (2016) ‘What would happen if everyone in the world suddenly stopped eating meat?’ Fairlie, Simon (2010) Meat: A benign extravagance. Chelsea Green Publishing. Southan, Rhys (2011) Book Review: Meat: A benign extravagance Morbiot, George (2010) ‘I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat – but farm it properly’ The Guardian (Opinion)  You may also like:  Article: ‘What Vegans can learn from Trump’  FFS 015 - From A to Veganism  FFS 008 - Edible Insects: the diet of tomorrow?  FFS 001 - The Climatarian Diet 

Since 2015, more than 150 cities around the globe have come together to rethink the way we feed our cities. As signatories to the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, they share a commitment to developing sustainable food systems that are inclusive, resilient, safe and diverse. The city of Valencia, the 2017 World Sustainable Food Capital, is leading by example.  In this episode, we discuss: The history and vision of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact The role of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation in helping to realise this mission  Why Valencia is the 2017 World Sustainable Food Capital Why cities truly matter in the fight for sustainable food and food justice We interview: Guido Santini - United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UN FAO) Dorothee Fischer - International Press and Communications Manager - Valencia World Sustainable Food Capital 2017 Vincente Domingo - Commissioner of Valencia World Sustainable Food Capital  Links: Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Website  Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Text  UN FAO Food for the Cities Programme  Valencia World Sustainable Food Capital 2017 Website United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025   You might also like: FFS 017 - When Farms go Vertical  FFS 011 - Transforming Agriculture to Feed the Future  FFS 005 - Learn by Doing: a 100-Mile Diet in Paris    For #HortAttack Valencia Campaign Visuals, visit the For Food's Sake website episode post FFS 019 - World Sustainable Food Capital 

This article critically assesses the increasing cross-fertilization between international environmental law and international human rights law... Abstract .. with regard to fair and equitable benefit-sharing, as an inherent component of the human rights of indigenous peoples and local communities related to natural resources. The article aims to explore the extent to which a fully-fledged mutually supportive interpretation of benefit-sharing may contribute to a progressive shift away from international law’s historically western-centric understanding of sovereignty towards the recognition and integration of different worldviews in nature resource use and conservation. The article thus examines the increasing references to benefit-sharing in international human rights processes with regard to the negative impacts of development and conservation of natural resources traditionally used by indigenous and tribal peoples (Part I). It then contrasts these developments with the evolution of fair and equitable benefit-sharing from the use of natural resources traditionally used by indigenous peoples and local communities under international biodiversity law (Part II). This preliminary juxtaposition serves to illuminate the degree of reciprocal influences of the areas of law, as well as respective blindspots. The central section of this paper (Part III) explores the full potential for a mutually supportive interpretation between international biodiversity and human rights law. It does so by piecing together existing sources of authoritative interpretation that are implicitly compatible and originate from these two areas of international law with a view to advancing understanding of how they contribute to address the respective blindspots in international environmental and human rights law. The combined reading of these international legal materials leads – it will be argued – to three normative clarifications. First, benefit-sharing should be understood as having a substantive dimension (right-holding communities’ choice and capabilities), as well as a procedural one (right-holding communities’ agency as part of a concerted, culturally appropriate and iterative dialogue). Second, benefit-sharing should expand dramatically the scope and approach of impact assessments and consultation/consent practices, moving from a defensive approach to ensure respect and protection of human rights towards a more proactive approach supporting also their full realization. In other words, benefit-sharing should not only be seen as a procedural “safeguard” to the substantive human rights related to natural resources, but rather as an integral component of these rights that should be realized. Third, benefit-sharing should be seen as part of a general, self-standing obligation to respect, protect and realize human rights related to natural resources. It should thus be distinguished from compensation as a secondary obligation of reparations that is dependent upon a violation of the right. The extent to which such interpretation has been applied, and should be applicable, to the creation and management of conservation measures, in addition to extractives, is also explored, as questions of negative impacts on human rights of conservation initiatives have only recently received more sustained attention. Accordingly, a reflection is offered on the relevance of these and related international law developments on benefit-sharing for better understanding business responsibility to respect human rights related to natural resources in the extractive sector, as well as for non-State actors in the conservation sector. Bio Elisa Morgera is Professor of Global Environmental Law at Strathclyde Law School in Glasgow and Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance. She is leading the ERC-funded BENELEX project on fair and equitable benefit-sharing at the crossroads of international human rights law, international environmental law (biodiversity, climate change, watercourses, land and agriculture) and the law of the sea. Elisa has served as a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO), IUCN, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the European Commission and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In addition, Elisa has participated as an observer in international environmental negotiations, including under the CBD and on marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction, since 2005. Prior to joining academia, Elisa served as a legal officer for FAO, advising over fifty countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the South Pacific on improving domestic legislation on natural resources; and as an environmental management officer for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Eastern Caribbean.

We have more choices for our Thanksgiving meal than the Pilgrims could have dreamed of. But did we make the right choice when we decided to breed traits like herbicide resistance into some of our most common crops? And should we have the right to know when we’re buying foods made with genetic engineering? We hear from both sides of the GMO debate. Later, we visit an innovative policing program that changes the relationship between police and people with opioid addiction. Plus, a reporter interviews one (in)famous pilgrim, and a tribe welcomes visitors to a new cultural district on Martha’s Vineyard. Sweet corn that you buy at the farm stand or supermarket in the summer is not genetically modified. But genetically engineered corn is used as an additive in processed foods and included in livestock feed. (Credit: United Soybean Board) Engineered Writer Caitlin Shetterly suffered for years with a series of  puzzling symptoms: constant colds, tingling and numbness, rashes, and all-over pain and weakness. She tried every treatment she could find, with no relief. That's until an allergist recommended she tried eliminating GMO corn from her diet. She managed to do so, and her health improved. That's what set Shetterly off on a journey — interviewing farmers, scientists, and activists — that led to her recent book, Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future.  It’s difficult for consumers to make informed decisions on the safety of GMOs, because most of the research is either carried out by or funded by companies like Monsanto, which manufacture the modified seeds, says Shetterly. A report published this May from the National Academies of Sciences found GMO foods to be safe. However, the report recommended testing GMO crops for residue from glyphosate, the main ingredient in the herbicide Roundup (which is routinely sprayed on GMO crops, since they are bred to be immune to the weedkiller). The WHO’s cancer agency last year classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic.” This year, though, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation and a different WHO body declared glyphosate “unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans” through our food. Campbell’s says it wants to be transparent about the GMO ingredients used in its foods, regardless of legal requirements. (Credit: Kathleen Masterson/ VPR) With all of this confusing information, you might want to play it safe by avoiding genetically modified ingredients. Vermont, Connecticut, and Maine all have GMO labeling laws on the books. But federal legislation signed by President Barack Obama in July nullified the state laws. And advocates complain the federal law does not go far enough. To break down the politics and economics of the GMO debate, Vermont Public Radio reporter Kathleen Masterson joins us. Something Totally Different John Rosenthal, left, co-founded the Police Assisted Addiction Recovery program in Gloucester, Mass. Steve Lesnikoski, right, was his first client. (Credit: Kristin Gourlay/ RIPR) “You have to be in this absolute desperate state and just devoid of humanity to really change. And that's where I was. I was dead inside. And I saw this beacon of light all the way across the country, and I was like, why not?” – Steve Lesnikoski, former heroin user The opioid addiction crisis in New England has physicians, community care-givers, and addiction treatment professionals scrambling to respond. Police departments are responding as well. Many have added the overdose rescue drug, Narcan, to their tool belts. Others have stepped up efforts to prosecute heroin dealers. But in Gloucester, Massachusetts, there's a program that flips policing on its head to help addicts find treatment. Rhode Island Public Radio's Kristin Gourlay has the story. Find more of her reporting on RIPR’s health blog, The Pulse. Legacies Tourists walk through the Shops at Aquinnah, part of the newly established Aquinnah Cultural District on Martha’s Vineyard. (Credit: Andrea Shea/WBUR) Aquinnah Wampanoag tribal member Berta Welch is owner of the Stony Creek Gift Shop in Aquinnah, on Martha’s Vineyard. The shop originally opened 75 years ago. (Credit: Andrea Shea/ WBUR) Even though the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe has lived on Martha's Vineyard for more than 10,000 years, tourists who flock to the island don't always know about or get to experience the rich history. But now people from the tribe and the town of Aquinnah are working together to tell that story — and to boost the local economy — with a new, state-designated cultural district. WBUR reporter Andrea Shea takes us there. Find a text version of Andrea’s report along with photos at WBUR’s ARTery. Buddy Tripp, a Myles Standish reenactor at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Mass. “I am afraid of nothing but God,” Tripp tells reporter Annie Sinsabaugh, in character. (Credit: Annie Sinsabaugh/ Transom Story Workshop) Whether it's civil war generals depicted in town square statues in the South, or the controversy over Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, Americans are grappling with the complicated history of iconic figures. The Myles Standish Monument in Duxbury, Mass. (Credit: Scott Christy) New England is no exception. At Yale University, students have protested a dorm named after John C. Calhoun, a former U.S. Senator, Vice President, and supporter of slavery. In the state of Vermont and the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Columbus Day is now Indigenous People's Day. Reporter Annie Sinsabaugh wonders if the same scrutiny should be applied to a man seen as a hero to the pilgrims: Myles Standish. Her story was reported as part of the Transom Story Workshop. About NEXT NEXT is produced at WNPR. Host: John Dankosky Producer: Andrea Muraskin Executive Producer: Catie Talarski Digital Content Manager/Editor: Heather Brandon Contributors to this episode: Kathleen Masterson, Kristin Gourlay, Andrea Shea, Annie Sinsabaugh Music: Todd Merrell, “New England” by Goodnight Blue Moon, “Mr. Farmer” by the Seeds Get all the NEXT episodes. We appreciate your feedback! Send praise, critique, suggestions, questions, story leads to next@wnpr.org, and tell us what you’re thankful for.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pulses are little marvels - protein packed lentils, peas and beans are cheap, good for health and help the soil. They're central to many food cultures including Italy and France but as a nation we eat very few other than baked beans. Now the Food and Agriculture Organisation has announced the 'Year of the Pulse' to encourage us to eat more but they may be met with reluctance from some quarters. Sheila Dillon's panel will kick off any tarnished reputation of wind and worthiness with tips on how to prepare pulses with ease and how to choose them. Chef Sanjay Kumar and cookery expert and author Jenny Chandler get cooking in the studio with a breakfast sambhar from Goa and 'black badgers and bacon' - a traditional Black Country dish better known as grey peas and bacon which tastes far better than the name would suggest. Farmers across the UK grow fava beans to help enrich the soil yet most of them are exported or fed to animals. Nick Saltmarsh was so shocked when he learnt this that he set up a company to market British beans to consumers and he's now asking farmers to grow other varieties especially. In addition to dried and tinned pulses he's selling them as snacks and flours and looking into pastas and other uses for them. Sheila's also discovered a beer made from British fava beans and now chocolate covered pulses are hitting the shelves. It's a hard job but someone's got to try them for you. Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock.

Dan Saladino discovers the world of the gut microbiota, the vast array of microbes within us all. From East Africa to the White House, it's a story that'll change the way you eat. Dan is joined by Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King's College London, and author of The Diet Myth - The Real Science Behind What We Eat. Tim tells the story of how he became fascinated by the gut microbiome and our diet. The programme also features a Dutch draper named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, co-founder of the American Gut Project Jeff Leach, evolutionary biochemist Dr Nick Lane, and Alexandre Meybeck - a Senior Officer at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation. Presenter: Dan Saladino Producer: Rich Ward.

How does a country feed itself following an earthquake, flood or drought? The Food Chain looks at the role of food in disaster relief - from the emergency response to the longer-term efforts to restore devastated farmland. We speak to Nepal's farmers to hear how they coped in the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake. An aid worker scrambled to Kathmandu tells us how the World Food Programme hired 25,000 mountaineers to deliver food to remote communities cut off by the disaster. We go behind the scenes at a leading supplier of emergency food, Nutriset, which makes peanut paste and milk products for malnourished children and adults around the world. Plus, how agriculture bears the brunt of the economic damage caused by natural disasters, but receives a tiny proportion of aid funding - the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations tells us the balance must be redressed. And when food aid can do more harm than good - we hear how farmers in Haiti are angry about US plans to send 500 tonnes of surplus peanuts to help the country recover from a three-year drought, and how prime agricultural land was lost in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. (Photo: A Nepalese earthquake survivor in front of a destroyed farm. Credit: Philippe Lopez, Getty Images)

In 2009, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations produced the Aquacrop model software. Developed by a team consisting of international experts, FAO and the IAEA, the Aquacrop model is used to calculate the yields of herbaceous crops, and is particularly suitable where water is scarce.

Highly regarded for its health benefits, people living by the shore have been eating seaweed for millennia. In Ireland, it was part of a prehistoric diet, and taken to ward off illness. In New Zealand, seaweed was a Maori delicacy. In Iceland, it was served daily, dried with fish, butter and bread. And seaweeds in many forms continue to be a major part of day to day cooking in China, Japan and Korea.According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, the harvesting of seaweed for food is worth upwards of 5 billion US dollars every year.Yet many of us still associate the greens with Asian food, or experiments in haute cuisine.But now a new generation of wild food entrepreneurs, are asking us to change our habits, and to rethink seaweed as something that can be enjoyed in every meal, for every occasion.Sheila Dillon hears stories of finding food from the sea. People harvesting and cooking with seaweed. And as seaweed enters the mainstream, she hears how age old harvesting traditions, could be under threat.This programme includes the fifth instalment from the Ark of Taste series.Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury.