IFPRI Podcast
Summary: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. Established in 1975, IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 50 countries. It is a research center of CGIAR, a worldwide partnership engaged in agricultural research for development.
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Big agriculture is getting, well, bigger. Thanks to recent mergers, 60 percent of the world’s seed supply and 70 percent of its agricultural chemicals could soon be controlled by just three companies. We learn about big farmers, small farmers, and everyone in between. Interviewee: • Danielle Nierenberg, Co-founder and President, Food Tank Credits: Interviewer: • Rina Hisamatsu Producers: • Natalie Manitius • Rina Hisamatsu • Andrew Jones • Zak Rosen • Sivan Yosef (executive producer) Editor: • Zak Rosen Music: • Free Music Archive
How do you get extra boosts of vitamin A, iron, or zinc to 20 million people, without a pill? It’s called biofortification, and the scientists behind it just won the World Food Prize. We talk with one of them about how biofortification could soon feed 1 billion people. Interviewee: • Howdy Bouis, Founder, HarvestPlus and 2016 World Food Prize Laureate Credits: Interviewer: • Hollie Kicinski Producers: • Grace Heymsfield • Hollie Kicinski • Andrew Jones • Zak Rosen • Sivan Yosef (executive producer) Editor: • Zak Rosen Music: • Free Music Archive
China’s economic growth during the past few decades has been stunning, pulling half of its undernourished citizens out of poverty and hunger. But what about the remaining 150 million people living in the countryside? We find out what the future holds for them. Interviewee: • Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Credits: Interviewer: • Bella Herold Producers: • Erika Shaver • Bella Herold • Andrew Jones • Zak Rosen • Sivan Yosef (executive producer) Editor: • Zak Rosen Music: • Free Music Archive
The year is 2002. Malawi is experiencing widespread hunger, and hundreds of thousands of children are malnourished. The country’s solution? Instead of taking kids to faraway health clinics, bring the treatment to them. Interviewee: • Regine Kopplow, Senior Nutrition and Food Security Adviser, Concern Worldwide • Meghan Anson, Nutrition Advocacy Officer, Concern Worldwide Credits: Interviewer: • Grace Heymsfield Producers: • Rina Hisamatsu • Grace Heymsfield • Andrew Jones • Zak Rosen • Sivan Yosef (executive producer) Editor: • Zak Rosen Music: • Free Music Archive
The planet is heating up, but what does climate change mean for our world’s food? We talk to a leading researcher who has bad news about what rising levels of carbon dioxide are doing to the nutrients in our most important crops. Interviewee: • Sam Myers, Senior Research Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health and Director, Planetary Health Alliance Credits: Interviewer: • Erika Shaver Producers: • Nathalie Lambrecht • Erika Shaver • Andrew Jones • Zak Rosen • Sivan Yosef (executive producer) Editor: • Zak Rosen Music: • Free Music Archive
For good and bad, private companies play a huge role in determining our nutrition and health, and they are teaming up more and more with governments. Is this a silver bullet to global malnutrition or a terrible development? We ponder the answer as we explore the world of public-private partnerships. Interviewee: • Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, GAIN Interviewer: • Nosheen Hayat Producers: • Hollie Kicinski • Nosheen Hayat • Andrew Jones • Zak Rosen • Sivan Yosef (executive producer) Editor: • Zak Rosen Music: • Free Music Archive
Women play a huge role in producing our world’s food but are still marginalized in many countries. We find out how to create opportunities for women and girls in agriculture. One solution? Keep them in school. Interviewee: • Catherine Bertini, Professor, Syracuse University and 2003 World Food Prize Laureate Credits: Interviewer: • Nathalie Lambrecht Producers: • Bella Herold • Nathalie Lambrecht • Andrew Jones • Zak Rosen • Sivan Yosef (executive producer) Editor: • Zak Rosen Music: • Free Music Archive
Entomophagy is the practice of eating insects. We talk to a scientist from Ghana who has one mission: to put edible insects on every dining table around the world in the next 10 years. Interviewee: • Jacob Anankware, Post-doctoral Scholar in environmental sciences and Founder and CEO, AnePaare Farms. Credits: Interviewer: • Isa Kujawski Producers: • Isa Kujawski • Andrew Jones • Zak Rosen • Sivan Yosef (executive producer) Editor: • Zak Rosen Music: • Free Music Archive
Can we really rid the world of hunger and malnutrition in under a decade? This podcast series reports on the successes that can get us there, like how one country recruited communities to locally treat child malnutrition or biofortification’s road to reaching 20 million people with healthy crops. It also explores exciting ideas, like putting insects on every dining room table or keeping every girl in school. Together, the episodes tell the story of how small and large movements—and everyday people—can help us achieve a food- and nutrition-secure world.
Presentation by Margaret McMillan, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI; Professor of Economics, Tufts University, at the IFPRI Book Launch, "Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth: A Framework and Case Studies", held May 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. About the book: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/structural-change-fundamentals-and-growth-framework-and-case-studies
Presentation by Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University at the IFPRI Book Launch, " Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth: A Framework and Case Studies", held May 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. About the book: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/structural-change-fundamentals-and-growth-framework-and-case-studies
