Shaping the future of food in 2025
In our first episode of the year, we look back at the rural success stories of 2024 – and set our sights on what’s to come in 2025.
Nutrition and malnutrition are the focus of our show this month. Ilaria Bianchi, IFAD’s Nutrition Expert Consultant, talks to us about the challenge of obesity. Our Lead Technical Specialist on Nutrition, Joyce Njoro, discusses how food inflation impacts diets. We then chat with IFAD’s Director for Food Systems Coordination Nadine Gbossa before joining Country Director Isabel De La Peña to discuss the nutritional challenges of Guyana’s indigenous communities.
Next, Recipes for Change Chef Walter El-Nagar highlights the importance of healthy diets before we end with a visit to Kenya where IFAD’s Moses Abukari talks about the benefits of sorghum.
Episode content
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Ilaria Bianchi |
Ilaria Bianchi discusses how to source evidence and resources to help create food systems for sustainable, healthy diets. And how this, in turn, can help minimise diseases and illnesses linked to obesity, particularly in East and Southern Africa.
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Joyce Njoro, Lead Technical Specialist (Nutrition) at IFAD |
Joyce Njoro explains what drives food inflation and how it impacts quality of life and nutritional standards for rural families and small-scale farmers in developing countries.
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Nadine Gbossa, Director for Food Systems Coordination at IFAD |
IFAD’s Director for Food Systems Coordination Nadine Gbossa gives tells us about the findings of the Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Moment and considers the importance of political leadership, societal awareness and the need to collectively address our planet’s challenges.
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Isabel De La Peña, Country Director (Latin America and the Caribbean Division) at IFAD |
Isabel De La Peña joins us from Latin America to talk about the indigenous communities in Guyana’s rural hinterland and the nutritional challenges they face.
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Chef Walter El-Nagar |
Despite his successes, Chef Walter El-Nagar has remained a dedicated activist at heart. He tackles social and political issues and the need to continue promoting healthy and sustainable diets. Take a look at his non-profit, Mater Cucina Democratica.
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Moses Abukari |
Moses Abukari works on IFAD’s Kenya Cereal Enhancement Programme - Climate Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Window (KCEP-CRAL). He helps us appreciate the importance of scaling up sorghum value chains for small-scale farmers in developing countries as well as its nutritional benefits.
Thanks to our producer, Francesco Manetti, and our reporters, Nour Bona, Rosa Gonzalez. Your hosts are Brian Thomson and Michelle Tang.
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Next month we’re celebrating rural women and women leaders in agriculture.
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