Podcasts about feed the future

Summer Greetings Glocal Citizens! My guest this week, comes to us via fellow Glocal Citizen, Yana Fleming (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/yana-fleming). Like Yana, Emilly Okello-Juma is a seasoned communications and program management professional. Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Emilly's work has taken her to points near and far across around the world. She has 13 years of experience working in communications roles including on-continent support across all regions in Africa on projects funded by international actors such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, Feed the Future and Prosper Africa. She has demonstrated experience in development communications, including report writing, branding, client and stakeholder relationships, visibility growth, policy engagement, and prodding action towards key outcomes for beneficiaries. Emilly has also served as board member in charge of Communications at SlumChild Foundation (http://slumchildfoundation.org). This week's conversation is a great compliment or prelude to upcoming episodes featuring conversations from our second The Future of Work Solutionscape and Stretch Salon that took place last weekend in London which centered on agriculture. Curious about what these sessions are about? Check out scenes from our May Day Salon in Brooklyn, New York (https://youtu.be/H8AZkJKJiKM) and stay tuned for opportunities to engage with the Glocal Citizens community worldwide. Where to find Emily? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilly-o-5847b620/) What's Emilly listening to? Ginny Clarke's (https://www.ginnyclarke.com/) Fifth Dimensional Leadership Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/@5-DLeadership) The Moth Podcast (https://themoth.org/podcast) The LINK Cast (https://policylinkglobal.org/linkcast) What's Emilly reading? Women Who Run with the Wolves (https://a.co/d/0gTQKpyn) by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Other topics of interest: Economic vs. Commercial Diplomacy (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unveiling-distinction-economic-diplomacy-vs-commercial-sinisa-pepic/) Prosper Africa (https://www.prosperafrica.gov/resource/investment-and-partnership-opportunities-in-africas-creative-industries/) Vivo Fashion Group (https://vivofashiongroup.com) The Nation Media Group (linkhttps://www.nationmedia.com) The Malabo Declaration (https://www.resakss.org/sites/default/files/Malabo Declaration on Agriculture_2014_11 26-.pdf) African Union Agenda 2063 (https://au.int/en/treaties/1165) Rwanda's former Minister of Agriculture Gérardine Mukeshimana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rardine_Mukeshimana) Special Guest: Emilly Okello-Juma.

Over one-third of the world's food is lost or wasted, undermining efforts to end hunger and malnutrition while contributing 8 to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. In low- and middle-income countries, over 40 percent of food loss occurs before a crop even makes it to market, whether due to inadequate storage, pests or microbes, spoilage, spillage in transport or otherwise. Eliminating food loss and waste (FLW) would provide enough food to feed two billion people, as well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Addressing FLW is critical to global food security, nutrition and climate change mitigation, with digital technology and the reduction of household food waste playing an important role in these efforts. In order to raise awareness, exchange information and share success stories, USAID's Food Loss and Waste Community of Practice created the USAID Kitchen Sink Food Loss and Waste Podcast. Our goal is to share monthly, bite-sized episodes that highlight the approaches USAID and the U.S. government are taking to address FLW. We hope these episodes provide a valuable resource for those interested in why we should care about FLW and how we can reduce it. Each year, USAID joins our partners in celebrating World Food Safety Day on June 7th with a month-long focus on the importance of food safety and the work, resources and tools carried out by our food safety partners. In a world where 735 million people go to bed hungry every night and 420,000 die from unsafe food every year, we simply can't afford to lose food to contamination and spoilage. In times like these, we need to preserve every ounce of food we grow in a way that delivers on nutrition and helps mitigate climate change. This episode celebrates World Food Safety Day with three USAID activities: Feed the Future Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food (EatSafe), Feed the Future Business Drivers for Food Safety (BD4FS), and the Alliance for Inclusive and Nutritious Food Processing (AINFP). You can subscribe to receive the latest episodes of USAID's Kitchen Sink and listen to our episodes on the platform of your choice: Apple, Spotify, and more! Video recordings of the episodes are available on YouTube. Check in every month for new episodes as global experts discuss a range of issues about FLW and methane emissions - from the critical role of youth to the staggering economic costs - and learn about specific ways that USAID is tackling FLW around the world. If you have an idea for an episode topic you'd like to see featured or if you would like to participate in an episode of USAID's Kitchen Sink, please reach out to Nika Larian (nlarian@usaid.gov).

In this week's Podbite, Leticija Petrovic, local food policy lead at the Food Foundation tells us about how the Feed the Future campaign initiated in 2020 by Marcus Rashford comes to West Midlands this month. Please add your voice to our campaign - it only takes two clicks of a button: https://bit.ly/3rlmvWK Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This week, Dev looks back at the Food Foundation's Feed the Future event which promoted the super powers of free school meals to a hall full of MPs, campaigners and celebrity chefs.800,000 children live in poverty in the UK, but because they're not poor enough, they're not entitled to free school meals. The threshold is just £7400 per household after benefits, yet expanding free school meals to all children from households who get Universal Credit would reach all these children in poverty.As the influencer guests sat down for a Chefs in School dinner served by Tom Kerridge and Melissa Hemsley, and with young people who've experienced first-hand just how important free school meals are, the chat was enlightening for everyone.Write to your MP in seconds to ask for free schools for all children who need it by clicking on this link Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Free school meals should be given to 800,000 children living in poverty in England but who are not currently eligible to receive them, says a new campaign backed by famous chiefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver. The Feed The Future campaign claims expanding school meals to those households on universal credit has benefits which means the policy will pay for itself. The BBC's Nick Robinson spoke to Jamie Oliver about the benefits that would accrue from expanding the free school meal programme. (Image, Jamie Oliver, Credit, EPA, Will Oliver)

On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani speaks with Dr. Tarifa Alzaabi, Acting Director General of International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA). They discuss the importance of using resource-efficient crops and technologies to adapt to the climate crisis, and ICBA's engagement with youth and women, and the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP28) in the United Arab Emirates in 2023. While you're listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

Feed the Future For Life is an organization that is dedicated to planting vegetables & maintaining vegetable Gardens in local communities. Africa is joined by Geronimo De Klerk, Founder of the organization to talk about the work they do in rural communities and how you can help. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Farmers in Cambodia have started to grow more vegetables to meet rising consumer demand, supported by innovations from a team led by UC Davis researchers. With help from Cambodia's Royal University of Agriculture, farmers adopted "nethouses" to protect crops from pests without the use of chemical pesticides and packinghouses to better care for their crops after harvest. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 37826]

Farmers in Cambodia have started to grow more vegetables to meet rising consumer demand, supported by innovations from a team led by UC Davis researchers. With help from Cambodia's Royal University of Agriculture, farmers adopted "nethouses" to protect crops from pests without the use of chemical pesticides and packinghouses to better care for their crops after harvest. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 37826]

Farmers in Cambodia have started to grow more vegetables to meet rising consumer demand, supported by innovations from a team led by UC Davis researchers. With help from Cambodia's Royal University of Agriculture, farmers adopted "nethouses" to protect crops from pests without the use of chemical pesticides and packinghouses to better care for their crops after harvest. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 37826]

The idea of being more conscious about what we feed our children has grown immensely over the past several years. Add on issues with our food systems and you have what has been a topic of hot debate. Enter Blue Watermelon Project, a Slow Food Phx food program that features a team determined to change the way we think about school lunches. The effort is spearheaded by Chef Charlene Badman and her team of local chefs. Join in as we talk with Charlene about the project and their January 22nd signature event!

This holiday season, we're talking food security – where we are and how we need to get to where we need to be, globally. To kick off this series of discussions, we're visiting with Feed the Future Innovation labs focused on collaborative research on sorghum and millet. This network of innovation labs, across the U.S., are part of the U.S. government's global hunger and food security initiative – addressing the root causes of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition to transform lives around the world. We'll dig into how research coming out of this U.S. initiative is helping partner countries develop their agriculture sectors and helping people feed themselves and creating important opportunities for a new generation of young people, while building a more stable world. This will be a discussion that hits home, not just through the holiday season but every day. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/agisuretrack-coffee-talk/message

Guest: Geronimo de Klerk | Co-Founder at Feed The Future For Life See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Food security is at the forefront of Singaporeans’ minds, now more than ever before! And one such agri-tech company which tackling this issue is Urban Tiller. They deliver fresh, local produce within 8 hours of harvest! Jolene Lum, Founder and CEO, Urban Tiller Singapore shares how the company focuses on reducing food waste, food miles, and water use in agriculture and how their expansion plans to 30 cities within 6 years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alternative proteins have come a long way. With consumer demand rising for alternatives to meat for environmental, health and ethical concerns we take a look at the latest developments in the alternative proteins space. What is the future for plant-based substitutes, will consumers react positively to lab-grown meat, and where will the market grow in the future? Joining us to answer this and more is a panel of experts in the field including Peter Verstrate, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Mosa Meat, Neil Stephens, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Brunel University, London and Dr.-Ing Florian Wild, Food Tech Consultant, Food Tech Consulting. About our panel Neil Stephens, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Brunel University, London Dr Neil Stephens is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at Brunel University London. He is a sociologist who has been tracking the development of cultured meat since 2008. Peter Verstrate, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Mosa Meat Peter is the food technician behind the world’s first slaughter-free hamburger. He has worked in the processed meat industry for over 20 years in various senior positions ranging from R&D to QA to Operations. He beings a deep knowledge of the meat business developed at international food companies including Sara Lee, Ahold, Smithfield, Campofrio Food Group and Jack Links. He also served as Managing Director of Hulshof Protein Technologies, a leading producer of collage proteins. Peter holds a Master’s in Food Science from Wageningen University. He is passionate about the environment and food security, and highly driven to find a sustainable way to feed the world. Peter co-founded Mosa Meat (https://www.mosameat.com/) and as COO is focused on developing an affordable process for high volume production of cultured meat. Dr.-Ing Florian Wild, Food Tech Consultant, Food Tech Consulting Florian works in applied research and development of plant protein ingredients and their application in food. Main applications are plant meat products with a similar fibrous structure and bite as known from various known animal products. He is one of the pioneers using high moisture extrusion for this purpose. Florian Wild graduated as food technologist with a major in cereal technology from the Technical University Berlin in 2003. He joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging in Freising, Germany conducting more than 20 national or international research projects. Focus has always been in plant proteins, the development of functional ingredients such as from pulses, cereals and oilseeds as well as the application of such proteins in various foods. He formed the extrusion group and established research on premium meat alternatives using high moisture extrusion cooking to create meat-like fibrous structures. Since 2013, after founding an own business, he has been cooperating closely with companies in the field of food ingredients, meat and further plant based alternatives as well as pulses and cereal processors.

Episode 23 of the SUT Underwater Technology Podcast features Steve Hall interviewing Lou Cooperhouse, CEO of innovative San Diego company BlueNalu who aim to be one of the first to market with sustainable, tasty, real fish meat (not a vegetarian substitute) made from cultured cells - 'Cellular Aquaculture' rather than wild-caught fish. You're making fish muscle tissue, not the head, organs, scales so it's efficient and cruelty-free.The technology is scaleable, can be applied to many species of fish & shellfish, and will enable consumers to purchase a delicious and healthy fillet of fish, complete with omega 3 oils and other beneficial trace components, without the carbon footprint, environmental damage, or sometimes unsustainable efforts of wild fish capture. This offers the possibility for wild fish stocks to recover, for fishers to focus on small, high-value 'luxury food' catches, with the potential bulk of the market one day supplied from shore-based manufacturing plants. The implications for sustainable use of wild ocean resources are immense, & enable projected future 9 billion-plus human population to be fed without destroying wild ecosystems. In the interview Lou explains the technology and vision of the company, how far they are from market, and how the product is intended to help achieve the UN sustainable development goals to protect life under water, and ensure healthy food for human populations. Find out more about BlueNalu at https://www.bluenalu.com and for their corporate responsibility programme see https://eat.blueFind out more about SUT at https://www.sut.org, contact Steve Hall at steve.hall@sut.orgThanks to Emily Boddy for composing & performing the podcast theme music and creating the podcast artwork, thanks to Zapslat.com for ambient ocean sounds. We'll be back next week - please subscribe, rate and review - and contact Steve if you'd like to be featured in a future episode. Support the show (https://www.justgiving.com/soc-underwatertech)

Rob Saik, CEO of AgVisorPRO, believes that the next thirty years could be the most important in the history of agriculture, and he claims that in order to support the global population in 2050, agriculture will have to become infinitely sustainable. Listen in as he explains his vision of farming technology and how innovation is the key to sustainable agriculture.

This episode is the second part of our interview with Rob Saik about his latest book, Food 5.0 - How We Feed the Future. It it he explains how bioengineering, precision agriculture, automation, and big data are converging to make farmers more effective at producing food than ever before. Rob has forty years of experience as a professional Agrologist and an international consultant who's worked with everyone from Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture to Bill Gates. He has been hailed as an agriculture futurist with unparalleled insight into where the industry is headed. He is the founder of AGvisorPRO, a platform that "uberizes" knowledge and wisdom., enabling farmers to instantaneously connect with agriculture experts worldwide. You can learn more about Rob at robertsaik.com and follow him on Twitter @RSaik. Pick up Food 5.0 on Amazon or at your local bookseller.

In this episode, we chat with Rob Saik about his latest book, Food 5.0 - How We Feed the Future, in which he describes the history and future of agriculture. Rob has forty years of experience as a professional Agrologist and an international consultant who's worked with everyone from Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture to Bill Gates. He has been hailed as an agriculture futurist with unparalleled insight into where the industry is headed. He is the founder of AGvisorPRO, a platform that "uberizes" knowledge and wisdom., enabling farmers to instantaneously connect with agriculture experts worldwide. You can learn more about Rob at robertsaik.com and follow him on Twitter @RSaik. Pick up Food 5.0 on Amazon or at your local bookseller.

Technology and farming always have mixed well in the United States, but in many other countries, particularly in the underdeveloped world, it’s a different story. Why does it matter, and what can be done about it? Richard Miles interviews Gbola Adesogan, Director of the Livestock Systems Innovation Lab at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS). TRANSCRIPT: Intro: 0:01 Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We’ll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we’ll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace. Richard Miles: 0:39 Technology and farming always has mixed well in the United States, but in many other countries, particularly in the underdeveloped world, it’s a different story. Why does it matter and what can be done about it? I’m your host, Richard Miles, and today on radio Cade, I’m pleased to welcome Gbola Adesogan, a professor at the University of Florida and director of the livestock systems innovation lab at the university’s Institute of food and agricultural sciences, otherwise known as IFAS. Welcome to Radio Cade, Gbola. Gbola Adesogan: 1:05 Thank you. Richard Miles: 1:06 So, Gbola, you develop technologies that improve livestock production in eight African and Asian countries, and this is paid for in part by the U.S. government. So I think the first thing we need to explain to our listeners is why is a university in North central Florida working on improving agricultural technologies in African nation ? Gbola Adesogan: 1:25 Okay, thank you for that question. And thank you for this opportunity. I think we’re all aware about a growing global population, the problems of poverty and hunger, and in many countries, what many of us may not be aware of is the problem of hidden hunger, which is when people lack certain nutrients in their diets that prevent them from reaching their potential. And this malnutrition deficiency or stunting is something which is prevalent in many developing countries. And we have come to realize the research has shown that a deficiency of these certain key nutrients causes lifelong problems. It’s Tom’s physical development, as well as cognitive development. So children are less able to do well in school. Their test scores are much lower. Their IQs are much lower and more susceptible to diseases and so on. And we have come to realize that the nutrients which are missing in the diets of those children, which caused this problem are present in livestock products. And we have a longstanding department of animal sciences and a community at UF, a community of researchers who have experience in developing technologies that can help to prevent this problem, improve livestock production, improve the supply of these missing nutrients in the diet. So we, as a team of , uh , several faculty across different units at the University of Florida, most of us from IFAS, collectively submitted a proposal to manage this livestock systems innovation lab, which has at its core, a vision to sustainably intensify livestock production, so that we can improve the nutrition, the health, the incomes, and the livelihoods of the poor in these eight countries. Richard Miles: 3:14 If we could define livestock, is it just large animals are talking about or does go all the way down to say chickens? Gbola Adesogan: 3:19 Yes, it does include small animals. So chickens, pigs, sheep, and goats, and cattle, and even Buffalo in Nepali in one of our countries. Richard Miles: 3:30 So if I understand the concept, as you explain it Gbola, but it’s not necessarily that people are not getting enough calories and they’re literally starving, they may be getting enough calories, but they’re not getting enough nutrients. And that’s because they’re only eating presumably one thing, one crop, and they’re getting no protein. Do I have that right? Gbola Adesogan: 3:48 Yes, you do. It’s that in most rural areas in the countries where we work and in many developing countries, the diets of the poor and the vulnerable are usually starch base . So it could be yams or potatoes or pasta or rice. And they may have some vegetables with that, but they lack the main nutrients that are needed for preventing this cognitive problem that occurs as a result of stunting. And those would be things like zinc, vitamin B12, which is only present in animal products, iron IOD, a vitamin a on a number of others. And what is advantage yours from a livestock product standpoint is that they contain those nutrients. And in many cases, the livestock products are the only readily bioavailable sources of those nutrients. So something like B12, you can only get from animal sources, iron, you can get from spinach and other plant sources, but it’s not as bioavailable. And so for the small brains of infants, you need an dense and readily bioavailable source of these nutrients. Richard Miles: 4:56 Let’s talk a little bit about the broader concept of food security, which is something I think most people in United States or developed countries don’t really understand that because it’s rare, except in hurricane comes through that you can’t go to the store at any time of the day and basically get the food that you need or want for a reasonable price. But in other countries, that’s not the case at all. As you’ve illustrated, you simply can’t get certain types of food, but if over time, certain parts of the population cannot get over the long period, these type of nutrients, what happens to the stability of society or even the government. Can you explore that concept of food security a little bit? Gbola Adesogan: 5:31 Yeah. So if we, first of all, look at food security is broader there’s provision of food to address hunger. And then there’s hidden hunger as well. And the lack of the nutrients, this taunting itself not only affects the cognitive development of children and their physical development so that they never achieved their high potential. And these are things that are very difficult to reverse. In fact, someone said , says condemns children to a lifetime of underperformance and underachievement. In many of these countries, a child who does not perform well in school has a far lower chance of holding down or even getting a good job. And so their ability to care for the community is reduced substantially. And these are extended family systems where there’s a lot of dependency on an individual. So the negative effects spiral beyond the individual, into the community. Now with hunger itself, when communities lack the essential nutrients or lack access to food that can cause really, really terrible problems in some of the areas of the world, some of the terrorism problems , some of the migration problems that are occurring are relation to food access and food affordability, and people are migrating sometimes simply because they want to be able to provide for their family. Richard Miles: 6:52 So really this is a very insidious problem in that in the one instance, if there’s literally no food at all, then people may riot or move. But in what you’re talking about with the hidden hunger problem, it can be such that the real effects for the real dangers appear actually later as a cohort, age cohort goes up. And as you said, they’ve been stunted because they didn’t have, for instance, B12 and their entire lives, they’re not going to be as productive as they could have been. Gbola Adesogan: 7:19 That’s correct studies that I’ve shown that IQ’s intelligence quotient of children who are stunted is far less, sometimes five points, less, much higher than that. And then there’s a study that was done by World Bank Researchers that showed that if the workforce of a nation is made up of people who are stunted in childhood, the economic productivity of that nation is going to be reduced by 7% on average. But for African and Asian countries, the average value is 10% for certain African countries. The value is as high as 16%. So this is not just an individual problem or a societal problem is a national problem. And these are countries where poverty is very high and there’s a great need for economic development to provide jobs and so on and so forth. So that’s stunting has ripple effects that just go on and on and on . Richard Miles: 8:11 But one of the reasons that the United States government is interested in this type of developing partnerships is that it seems like as a country, there are cultural system becomes more sophisticated, not coincidentally. They tend to start buying more agricultural products or technologies from the United States for a country that is getting new systems in place. What sort of trade or economic relationships do they develop with say suppliers in the United States? What sort of products are they now starting to import from the U.S. that they weren’t importing before? Gbola Adesogan: 8:39 So there are several benefits that are accrued to the U.S. from these partnerships. And examples are sometimes some of our projects involve trying to tackle diseases like in Uganda and Kenya, we’re working on PPR or Pesta Patura now, which is a viral disease of sheep and goats that started from ivory coast and spread throughout Africa. A lot of the middle East, that nation, thankfully, it’s not here yet. And so we’re testing a Thermo stable vaccine for containing the disease. So that whole disease prevention aspect is something that our lab is working on as well as several other labs. Now, to answer your specific question, the soybean association of the U.S. has partnered with the soybean innovation lab for instance, and they are helping with supplying soybean to countries where soybean is needed. There are companies in the U S that are also developing new varieties of fodder or forages for animal feed that are drought tolerant, that the grain can be used for human food consumption. And then the straw can be used for animal consumption. And in certain cases, the whole plant can be fed to animals. So there are companies that are also involved at many of the big companies, big ad companies. We have how foundations that are also involved in these countries. The U.S. Sorghum Association has worked with the sorghum and millet innovation lab to help improve the capacity, to provide improved varieties in different countries across the world as well. Richard Miles: 10:07 So you’ve mentioned several times these innovation labs and indeed you’re the director of the livestock systems innovation lab. What do you think are some of the more interesting and successful projects that these innovation labs have done in these countries? If you could give us a few examples of what ideas did they come up that materially or dramatically improved the system in the country, in which they’re working, Gbola Adesogan: 10:28 I’ll give some examples of some of our work. Then I’ll talk about maybe a couple of other labs. And we in the livestock lab are funded by both USCID and the Gates foundation, but feed the future is a much broader initiative. It’s an across government initiative that was started in 2009 during the Obama administration and enacted into law with strong bipartisan support. And it’s been reauthorized twice since then, last time being last year with very strong bipartisan support as well. And these labs try and address issues of poverty and hunger in the developing world. And they use agricultural led economic growth as one of the methods of alleviating the problems in this country. And also trying to enhance the resilience of the individuals. Now, some specific technologies that have been developed that we have developed , i’ll give maybe two or three examples. One of them was a smartphone app for formulating balanced rations or livestock for cows and Buffalo in Nepal. So this app allows us to match the nutrient needs of cattle with what the diet is supplying . So we are able to determine how much corn, how much soybean, how much vitamins and so on to mix into a ration for a cow. And that avoids a lot of wastage. And it means that meeting the nutrient needs of the cow and 94% of those who tried this in Nepal, saw that the milk production from their cows was improved. Another example from Nepal, we tried some technologies for reducing mastitis. Mastitis is when the utter of the cow gets inflamed. So bacteria get into the teat canal and release a toxin, and that can reduce milk production severely, and it can also pose a food safety hazard. It makes the milk less suitable for processing and so on. And so we deployed some technologies which are commonly used here in the U.S. in Nepal. And we reduce mastitis in Buffalo from 78 to 18%. So the prevalence was very drastically reduced. And one of our partners Heifer International is now scaling that to thousands of farmers in Nepal. Other labs have also developed several innovations. In fact, I think there are about 900 technologies that have been developed by these Feed the Future innovation labs. And another example that has been successful is developmental a moisture testing device, which is very useful. And this was done by the post-harvest innovation lab in partnership with some colleagues in garner and a young man named Ceci , Mr. Ceci in Ghana, he won to one of the MIT on the 35 innovator awards last year. And he got that award because of his work with this lab. And this moisture meter is very, very useful for determining how much moisture is in green samples. And if we store greens with too much moisture, then they become moldy and they can produce the toxin, which is carcinogenic. So these technologies can have really beneficial effects in many parts of the world. Mr. Ceci has now established a company, and he’s now selling some of these moisture meters. And he got that knowledge through his interaction with the post-harvest innovation lab at Kansas State University. Richard Miles: 13:44 That’s amazing the success rates that you were citing and the adoption rates, this technology is really pretty spectacular. How is it that these innovation labs are so successful in getting the farmers in these countries to adopt the new technology? Because I think there’s this preconception or stereotypes , certainly United States say, well, all the tech savvy people are the ones who work in the high tech firms and the people who are still in the agricultural sector or more traditional, but in this case, and certainly I know in the United States, farmers are actually the ones who are very early adopters of new technologies because they see these results in your experience, working in the countries, you’ve worked in, how exactly do you connect with the farmers on the ground and say, here’s a new process, whether it’s a smartphone app or another thing you really should use it is the reaction skeptical is enthusiastic? What do they say? Gbola Adesogan: 14:30 So in the developing world, you have the same type of range of perceptions about new technology. As we have here, you have the early adopters, you have those who are very slow to take on anything new, but I think it’s a question of looking at the whole process of behavior change as something to be approached strategically and carefully. And I would also say that it’s not something that we’ve nailed down within the livestock innovation lab. We continue to work on this, but understanding the context is very important. Understanding the social cultural context in many of these countries, women play a very vital role in livestock within agricultural practice and production and involving the women is often critical to the success of technologies. Understanding the context is very important on working alongside the farmers, understanding their needs, first of all, and then try to figure out what matters to them. So I’ll give one more example. One of my colleagues here at UF, Sarah McCune, led one of our 45 projects in Burkina Faso in West Africa in the area they raise poultry, but egg consumption is very low, particularly among children. So what she was trying to do was to increase egg consumption by children and she used education. So she had a control group of villages, where there was no intervention. She had another group where there was training on the importance of eggs in the diet, the nutritional benefits of consuming eggs. And then there was also a training on raising poultry properly. So that was the educational intervention, but the full intervention was that educational intervention plus gifting of chickens to the families. Now, what was unique was that she not only gifted chickens, but she elicited the help of village elders and ask the village elders to talk to the parents and get them to commit, to feeding one egg a day to a child. And that was successful. So at the end of the 10 month study, what we found is those children on the control group was still eating no eggs. Those in the education group, the partial intervention, they were now eating two eggs a week. Those in the full intervention were eating six eggs a week, a tremendous breakthrough, and this made the national news in Burkina Faso. And what was very striking was that the children in the control group got more malnourished. Monitoring scores, including on the weight and wasting worsened and wasting is associated with childhood mortality. But in the full intervention group, those calls were decreased. And people who visited the children in the different villages said, you could tell immediately where you go to a full intervention village because the children were more active and playful and it looked bright and so on and so forth. And that was just from giving them an egg a day. Richard Miles: 17:16 So for a researcher, this is like a dream come true, get all the results you want from your various control group and full on intervention and so on. Well , let’s talk a little bit about you now. Uh , personally, you have somewhat of an advantage, as you’d said, understanding the cultural context cause you yourself are from Nigeria. And so you obviously have a strong personal connection to your work, particularly in that region. So, I understand your father was a chemistry teacher. Your mother was a nursing instructor, tell us a little bit, and our listeners, what your childhood was like and what led you ultimately to animal science. Gbola Adesogan: 17:46 So I had somewhat of a privileged upbringing because my parents were both educators in Nigeria. And so I had a great childhood. It was probably quite similar to a middle class childhood here in the U.S, But this specific influences that led me to animal science is kind of interesting. My best friend in elementary school was from Germany. His dad was a visiting professor from Germany who came to spend some time in Nigeria at the University of Ibadan where my dad worked. And because this young person Mark was my best friend, we hung out a lot together. And every now and again, his dad would take us to the farm, to the animal science farm. And we would see the animals and look at what he was doing and so on and so forth. And I think that with maybe an innate love for animals is what drove me to the animal science career. And in 2013, when I learned about stunting and I learned about the fact that animal products contain the nutrients that are lacking in fact was a specific presentation. I listened to one in which someone presented some information from a research project published in American journal where feeding just a little bit of meat to children in Kenya, increased their test scores, average over five school semesters and all school subjects improve their test scores by 45% that got my attention, just the thought that improving the diet or these children could improve their lives and therefore improve society, improve the country as a whole. That is a very strong motivating factor for me, as well as my faith. I’m a Christian. And so this all really dovetails with the teachings of Jesus. Richard Miles: 19:26 That’s fascinating Gbola. What is next for you? And do you have research projects, new ones that you intend to embark on, or have you thought about other areas in what you’d like to do in terms of an intervention what’s next for you? Gbola Adesogan: 19:37 So we’re now in the fifth year of a five year project from USCID. The Gates project goes on for another two years after this. So we’re now working with USCID on our next tension and early indications are that we will be able to get one. So we are gearing up for the next five years. We’re thinking about how can we continue to do innovative work, develop new technologies? How can we make sure we have even greater impacts? So yesterday for instance, we had a discussion with some of the folks at USCID about engaging the private sector strategies for even more effective engagement of the private sector, because we don’t want to just do research. That shows something is beneficial, but the true test of the success of our work is to what extent is it adopted? And to what extent does it have long lasting and sustainable impacts? So that’s something we’re gearing up on with strategizing on. We have a lot of faculty across UF who work with us and they are really the secret of our success. And we’ve had discussions on this already this year and we continue to do so. Richard Miles: 20:44 Well. I have to admit to a little bit of envy because I spent most of my career in foreign affairs. Some of it doing development work and some of the countries I was in. And I got to tell you, a lot of people put a lot of effort into designing certain programs of democracy, building and education, and rarely if ever do they get the results that you’re talking about working in solving the problems of hidden hunger and so on and really profound. It’s hard to see how these won’t help these countries longterm, because if what you’re describing is successful. And as you said, it’s sustainable over the longterm , talking about a benefit and a gain for really everyone. It’s not just that kid who got the B12 and they needed, it’s the entire society that benefits from more productive individual and stable society and so on. So I really commend you on your work. Look forward to having you back on the show at some point to give us an update on what’s going on and wish you all the best. Gbola Adesogan: 21:31 Thank you so much. Thank you. Richard Miles: 21:33 I am Richard Miles . Outro: 21:35 Radio Cade is produced by the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention located in Gainesville, Florida. Richard Miles is the podcast host and Ellie Thom coordinates inventor interviews, podcasts are recorded at Heartwood Soundstage and edited and mixed by Bob McPeak. The Radio Cade theme song was produced and performed by Tracy Collins and features violinist, Jacob Lawson.

Technology and farming always have mixed well in the United States, but in many other countries, particularly in the underdeveloped world, it’s a different story. Why does it matter, and what can be done about it? Richard Miles interviews Gbola Adesogan, Director of the Livestock Systems Innovation Lab at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS).

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How will we feed the world in the future when we are doing such a poor job of it now? Many of us are fortunate enough to not worry that our own families will get enough to eat. And some are fortunate that they can do something to improve the prospects of feeding the world. One of those fortunate enough to make a difference is Dr. Gbola Adesogan, Director of the Feed The Future Innovation Lab at the University of Florida. Dr. Adesogan joins Farm To Table Talk and explains the current and future state of the world. Animal-source foods are commonly lacking in the diets of the poor and vulnerable in developing countries, particularly children and women who need them most. Due to their high content of quality protein and bio-available micronutrients, increased consumption of animal-source foods can improve the nutritional status as well as the growth, psychomotor functions, cognitive development, and health of children--especially infants under the age of two. Dr. Adesogan’s work focuses on sustainably improving livestock productivity and marketing and animal-source food consumption using appropriate improved technologies, capacity development, and policies, in order to improve the nutrition, health, incomes and livelihoods of vulnerable people while reducing the environmental impact of livestock systems "Regenerative agriculture" will change the conversation about livestock and climate change. Progress will improve household nutrition, food security, and incomes, in addition to the competitiveness of smallholder livestock systems—feeding the future. .      

Andrew Bracken and Partnerships Andrew’s work takes him all over the globe to more than 20 countries.  He is the partnership manager for “Feed the Future, Partnering for Innovation.” "My inspirational word is “partnerships” because it’s in my job title but it means, for me, bringing together those who normally don’t work together." Andrew in Kenya - improved sorghum seed "I create public and private partnerships to invest in sustainable agriculture for small farmers across the globe." "My job helps to provide real income to farmers and not just for subsistence living.  Farmers also learn new farming practices and new technologies." "I speak English, Spanish and Portuguese.  It’s important to speak the farmers’ language because they need to be able to get across their needs and their dreams.  It’s more important for me to listen and to understand those needs.” Hybrid cabbage seedlings planted in Zambia “For post-harvest loss it is important to help the farmers learn ways to keep crop quality edible.  Examples are improving transportation or using different sacks based on the temperatures.” “In Zambia we’re working on a tomato seedling project.  Many times we work with universities within the country.  They do research on which seed is appropriate for specific areas within a country.  Altitude, climate and insects play a role in the research.” Hybrid tomato seedlings planted in Zambia “I like to see the product in action which means getting back in the bush.  It’s valuable to see the people who are the ones intended to receive the help.  I like to learn the cultures.  In Malawi the culture is very alive with the Chewa ethnic groups and traditional clothing.” “In Guatemala we’re working on a potato seed production project.  I was there in the highlands and my Spanish skills weren’t helpful as the Mayan culture is well alive.  It is so interesting.  I love the different cultures I experience.  I enjoy sharing those cultures with others as well.  It’s important.” “With the funds we’ve reached over a million farmers world-wide.  My own projects have reached about 500,000 farmers.” “It’s a joy to know that I’m in this position where I have the resources to make an impact like this.  It’s humbling.” “This work has shown me new and collaborative ways to work with people.” Andrew's positive imprint is global. When Andrew is in the USA he runs marathons.  He ran his first Boston Marathon in 2018. Listen to the podcast and learn more about Andrew and his positive imprint.  What’s Your P.I.? Listen to other episodes after listening to this one: https://yourpositiveimprint.com/episodes/ (https://yourpositiveimprint.com/episodes/)   Livestock insurance for herders in Kenya Partnering for Innovation builds partnerships with private sector agribusinesses in emerging markets that sell products and services to smallholder farmers. Partnering for Innovation’s approach creates the conditions for sustainable success by: Carefully selecting projects for their potential impact and profitability. Providing in country expertise and connections with local agribusinesses. Identifying and engaging the best partners in every link of the supply chain. Addressing barriers to commercialization through acceleration services such as in country trainings and workshops. Supplying business and technical support such as market research, affordability and financing options, and networking opportunities. You can learn more about this foundation at:   Website: partneringforinnovation.org/about-1/ (https://www.partneringforinnovation.org/about-1/) Please enter your name. Please enter a valid email address. Sign up for email updates Something went wrong. Please check your entries and try again.

In the fifth episode of the Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation podcast, program staff and Zambian-based companies Stewards Globe and Good Nature Agro discuss strategies and good practices for commercializing improved seeds to smallholder farmers. Questions or comments? Write us at Innovation@fintrac.com.

In the fourth episode of the Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation podcast, we build off the first three episodes to look at how we operationalize private sector partnerships for achieving food security goals. We hear from Partnering for Innovation staff and a Malawian business partner, Rab Processors. Have questions or comments? Write us at innovation@fintrac.com.

Panelist: Beth Dunford, Assistant to the Administrator, Deputy Coordinator for Development for Feed The Future , USAID The Global Report on Food Crises provides food security and nutrition analyses from countries that are chronically vulnerable to food crises and have large populations facing acute food insecurity. The Report draws attention to rising levels of food insecurity and malnutrition, particularly associated with conflict and the impact of extreme climate events. The 2018 Report provides the latest estimates of severe hunger in the world. Conflict and insecurity continued to be the primary drivers of food insecurity in 18 countries, where almost 74 million food-insecure people remain in need of urgent assistance.

The third episode of the Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation podcast explores how Partnering for Innovation selects companies to invest in, weighing a company's potential for both development impact and profitability. Narrator Aviva Kutnick of USAID and Partnering for Innovation staff members Elisa Burrows and Matthew Krause explore why one partner in Nigeria, Babban Gona, was selected and how investing donor dollars in Babban Gona to help it expand its work is good for smallholder farmers' livelihoods. Listen and learn how development organizations can partner with private companies to increase development impact through improved profitability.

The second episode of the Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation podcast dives into two direct partnerships with private sector companies that are increasing food security and improving livelihoods. Popoyán in Guatemala and Universal Industries in Malawi share how their businesses are working with and benefiting smallholder farmers and how working with USAID through Partnering for Innovation de-risks and accelerates their entry into base of the pyramid markets. Aviva Kutnick of USAID narrates us through the stories, including clarifying points where audio from Malawi was less clear. Listen and learn all about the exciting work USAID is doing through Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation with Fintrac. Stay tuned for our next episode, coming soon, and learn more about Feed the Future at feedthefuture.gov.

The pilot episode of Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation's podcast delves into how to attract rural youth into the business of farming. The podcast chats with youth and others involved with the AgriJoven project in Guatemala, which is connecting youth farmers to markets and innovative technologies and services. For more episodes, look for Partnering for Innovation: The Podcast in the right hand sidebar! Learn more about Feed the Future at feedthefuture.gov.

Humans have been producing food using the same paradigm for 10,000 years. But the burden of a growing population and the impacts of an industrial approach to farming threaten the entire enterprise. The Land Institute is working on a solution. In this episode, we talk with Fred Lutzi, President of The Land Institute, about their unique approach to transforming current destructive agricultural practices. The Land Institute is a science-based research organization based in Kansas, US, that is developing perennial crops as an alternative to current unsustainable practices in agriculture. Instead of relying on and tweaking extractive industrial systems, the institute focuses on perennial grains grown using regenerative agricultural practices. “Agriculture must understand and mimic sustaining natural systems if we hope to feed a growing world population”.   In the episode we discuss: What Fred thinks are the major problems of agriculture today What the Land Institute means by transforming agriculture by developing a ‘Natural Systems Agriculture’ What perennial crops are, what they promise, and how they differ from annual crops The Land Institute’s Kernza® wheatgrass crop and the road to commercialization Why perennial crops are currently not the norm: what’s holding us back? What Fred thinks we can all do as consumers to work towards a common goal A pilgrimage to the beer of the future: Long Root Ale – a Kernza®-based beer by Patagonia Provisions Links The Land Institute website More about Perennial plants Great video about Long Root Ale - A Kernza®-based beer by Patagonia Provisions The Land Institute's global research partners  

With an ever growing population some high-tech approaches for sustainable agriculture are being tested. Join Kristen Simoes as she explores the world of crops and agriculture science. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 32150]

With an ever growing population some high-tech approaches for sustainable agriculture are being tested. Join Kristen Simoes as she explores the world of crops and agriculture science. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 32150]

With an ever growing population some high-tech approaches for sustainable agriculture are being tested. Join Kristen Simoes as she explores the world of crops and agriculture science. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 32150]

With an ever growing population some high-tech approaches for sustainable agriculture are being tested. Join Kristen Simoes as she explores the world of crops and agriculture science. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 32150]

We explore the latest innovation transforming one of the world's oldest industries: farming

An overview of how programs at the University of California are striving to meet the challenge of feeding an ever-growing global population with sustainable practices. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 30780]

An overview of how programs at the University of California are striving to meet the challenge of feeding an ever-growing global population with sustainable practices. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 30780]

An overview of how programs at the University of California are striving to meet the challenge of feeding an ever-growing global population with sustainable practices. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 30780]

An overview of how programs at the University of California are striving to meet the challenge of feeding an ever-growing global population with sustainable practices. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 30780]

In a world of advanced technology, science, and environmental concern we talk to students who have a vision for the future of farming and are working to create high-tech tools to help make agriculture more precise. We also take a look at plant genetics, biotechnology, and a unique couple - an organic farmer and a plant geneticist –both of whom work at UC Davis and strongly believe that the two traditionally opposing sides actually have the same goals. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24297]

In a world of advanced technology, science, and environmental concern we talk to students who have a vision for the future of farming and are working to create high-tech tools to help make agriculture more precise. We also take a look at plant genetics, biotechnology, and a unique couple - an organic farmer and a plant geneticist –both of whom work at UC Davis and strongly believe that the two traditionally opposing sides actually have the same goals. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24297]

In a world of advanced technology, science, and environmental concern we talk to students who have a vision for the future of farming and are working to create high-tech tools to help make agriculture more precise. We also take a look at plant genetics, biotechnology, and a unique couple - an organic farmer and a plant geneticist –both of whom work at UC Davis and strongly believe that the two traditionally opposing sides actually have the same goals. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24297]

In a world of advanced technology, science, and environmental concern we talk to students who have a vision for the future of farming and are working to create high-tech tools to help make agriculture more precise. We also take a look at plant genetics, biotechnology, and a unique couple - an organic farmer and a plant geneticist –both of whom work at UC Davis and strongly believe that the two traditionally opposing sides actually have the same goals. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24297]

There’s no question agriculture has a considerable environmental footprint. In this episode, you’ll see how UC Davis researchers are working with farmers across the state to find ways to reduce that impact. We’ll talk about water, soil, and air and we’ll take a look at the “Bovine Bubbles” that brought one UC Davis researcher international attention and “cleared the air” when it comes to how much gas cows really produce. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24296]

There’s no question agriculture has a considerable environmental footprint. In this episode, you’ll see how UC Davis researchers are working with farmers across the state to find ways to reduce that impact. We’ll talk about water, soil, and air and we’ll take a look at the “Bovine Bubbles” that brought one UC Davis researcher international attention and “cleared the air” when it comes to how much gas cows really produce. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24296]

There’s no question agriculture has a considerable environmental footprint. In this episode, you’ll see how UC Davis researchers are working with farmers across the state to find ways to reduce that impact. We’ll talk about water, soil, and air and we’ll take a look at the “Bovine Bubbles” that brought one UC Davis researcher international attention and “cleared the air” when it comes to how much gas cows really produce. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24296]

There’s no question agriculture has a considerable environmental footprint. In this episode, you’ll see how UC Davis researchers are working with farmers across the state to find ways to reduce that impact. We’ll talk about water, soil, and air and we’ll take a look at the “Bovine Bubbles” that brought one UC Davis researcher international attention and “cleared the air” when it comes to how much gas cows really produce. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24296]

Agriculture isn’t just about sowing the land; it’s about finding solutions to modern problems facing our food supply. With farmland shrinking and a hungry population growing, what is UC Davis doing to ensure an abundant food supply that will be healthier, last longer, taste better? We’ll learn about the “100-year experiment” and meet the first graduates of a brand new major: sustainable agriculture and food systems. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24295]

Agriculture isn’t just about sowing the land; it’s about finding solutions to modern problems facing our food supply. With farmland shrinking and a hungry population growing, what is UC Davis doing to ensure an abundant food supply that will be healthier, last longer, taste better? We’ll learn about the “100-year experiment” and meet the first graduates of a brand new major: sustainable agriculture and food systems. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24295]

Agriculture isn’t just about sowing the land; it’s about finding solutions to modern problems facing our food supply. With farmland shrinking and a hungry population growing, what is UC Davis doing to ensure an abundant food supply that will be healthier, last longer, taste better? We’ll learn about the “100-year experiment” and meet the first graduates of a brand new major: sustainable agriculture and food systems. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24295]

Agriculture isn’t just about sowing the land; it’s about finding solutions to modern problems facing our food supply. With farmland shrinking and a hungry population growing, what is UC Davis doing to ensure an abundant food supply that will be healthier, last longer, taste better? We’ll learn about the “100-year experiment” and meet the first graduates of a brand new major: sustainable agriculture and food systems. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24295]

California agriculture is a $37.5 billion industry with the golden state being home to nine of the nation’s top ten producing counties. We’ll take a look at innovation born at UC Davis that has changed the way farmers do their jobs, and see how agriculture experts of the future are preparing to meet the many challenges ahead. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24294]

California agriculture is a $37.5 billion industry with the golden state being home to nine of the nation’s top ten producing counties. We’ll take a look at innovation born at UC Davis that has changed the way farmers do their jobs, and see how agriculture experts of the future are preparing to meet the many challenges ahead. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24294]

California agriculture is a $37.5 billion industry with the golden state being home to nine of the nation’s top ten producing counties. We’ll take a look at innovation born at UC Davis that has changed the way farmers do their jobs, and see how agriculture experts of the future are preparing to meet the many challenges ahead. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24294]

California agriculture is a $37.5 billion industry with the golden state being home to nine of the nation’s top ten producing counties. We’ll take a look at innovation born at UC Davis that has changed the way farmers do their jobs, and see how agriculture experts of the future are preparing to meet the many challenges ahead. Series: "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 24294]