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Without Livestock, I Would Never Have Gone to School, with Professor Appolinaire Djikeng (opens the original)
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In today's episode, I’m joined by Professor Appolinaire Djikeng, Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute and CGIAR Senior Director for Livestock-Based Systems. Recorded at ILRI's headquarters in Kenya, Appolinaire talks about growing up in a village in western Cameroon where the family's pigs, goats and chickens paid for his schooling, and the work he now leads for a sector more than 1.7 billion people still depend on. You'll hear why Appolinaire says he would probably
The African farmer isn't holding a begging bowl (opens the original)
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In today's episode, I’m joined by Alice Ruhweza, President of AGRA. Alice grew up in Uganda as the daughter of the country's first post-colonial chief game warden, and spent 20 years working in conservation before taking on the job of making African farmers prosperous. You'll hear why Alice says she worked in conservation for two decades without ever being a conservationist, what happened when the communities living around Uganda's last mountain gorillas were finally asked what they actually nee
Up to a fifth of our food never leaves the farm, with Leon Aarts (opens the original)
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In today's episode, I’m joined by Leon Aarts, co-founder and CEO of Ample, which buys surplus food from farmers at scale and turns it into plant-based meal components for schools and hospitals. Leon became a chef by accident at 19, built a fine food wholesale business and then walked away from it. You'll hear why between 15 and 20% of everything grown in the UK never leaves the farm, what happened on Leon's first day in the refugee camp in Calais, and why he thinks philanthropy has nothing to do
Calories are cheap, nutrition is expensive, with Ana Maria Loboguerrero (opens the original)
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In today's episode, I’m joined by Ana Maria Loboguerrero, Director of Adaptive and Equitable Food Systems at the Gates Foundation. Ana Maria grew up in Bogotá and now leads work that sits across three dimensions at once, climate, gender and nutrition, with most of it focused on sub-Saharan Africa. You'll hear what the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report found about the 2.7 billion people who can't afford a healthy diet, why FAO's analysis says supporting women farmers
Unpacking the 2026 SOFI Report, with Maximo Torero (opens the original)
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In today's episode, I’m once again joined by Maximo Torero, Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, on the day the 2026 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, or SOFI, is released. Each year, SOFI gives the clearest picture of where the world stands on hunger and nutrition. You'll hear why global hunger has fallen for a third year running even as official development assistance was cut by more than 25%, why Africa now has more hungry peo
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