Food4Transformation

At the network meeting "Partners for change - Transformation to a food secure, resilient and sustainable future" in Nairobi, Kenya, over 200 stakeholders and international partners from around the globe came together to discuss the transformation of our agricultural and food systems.

In this episode, we listen to moderator Kah Walla and Paul Garacuchea summing up the event. Kah Walla is an activist, entrepreneur, and political leader from Cameroon. In 2008, she was recognized as one of seven women entrepreneurs working to improve the business environment in Africa by the world bank. Paul Karagochea is the current director for sustainable...

No matter where we live or what we are doing in our daily lives – all of us are consumers of one thing or another. You might not realize just how many of the goods you consume are imported from other countries. This makes us dependent on global trade. Today we face many challenges in our established trading structures, such as price dumping, import dependencies and the exclusion of marginalized groups. How can we make our trade systems more just?

In this episode Katie Gallus talks to Ousmane Badiane (Akademiya 2063), Jonathan Hepburn (WTO) and Carin Smaller (Shamba Centre for...

In many countries, secure and documented land rights have proven to be essential, especially for smallholder farmers. The reasons for this are simple: land ownership can serve as an asset that facilitates access to financial services. This opens up new economic opportunities for farmers. At the same time, however, it must be ensured that difficulties with repayments do not lead to the loss of land.

In this month’s episode we delve into the challenges that affect smallholder farmers when it comes to land tenure and access to financial services. In this context, we also look at the aspect of gender...

Nowadays, we have a vast array of digital services at our disposal – weather its ordering groceries, checking the weather forecast, refreshing the news or social media to stay up to date on current events, or listening to this very podcast – it's hard to imagine what life would look like without technology in our lives.

Experts say: leveraging digital tools to support food and agricultural transformation offers great potential to transform the food system, work towards the goal of SDG 2 (zero hunger) and put less pressure on our natural environments while conserving more biodiversity. Let’s take a closer...