Around the World in Eight Commodities delves into some of the planet’s most critical commodities, exploring the complex challenges they face and the innovative solutions being implemented around the globe.

In this episode, we’re taking a look into wheat, a cereal crop that’s been cultivated in numerous countries for thousands of years. It remains a staple for many people today in the form of bread, pasta, cereal and many other foodstuffs. 

Featuring:

• Abate Feyissa Senbeta, doctoral student studying wheat, Ethiopia
• Takayuki Hagiwara, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), India

Around the World in Eight Commodities delves into some of the planet’s most critical commodities, exploring the complex challenges they face and the innovative solutions being implemented around the globe.

In this episode, we’re taking a look at rice, a food staple for more than 3.5 billion people around the world.

Featuring:

• Sarida Khananusit, project director, Agriculture and Food team, GIZ, Thailand
• Seno Apriyanto Cahyadi, commodity advisor, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Takayuki Hagiwara, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), India

Around the World in Eight Commodities delves into some of the planet’s most critical commodities, exploring the complex challenges they face and the innovative solutions being implemented around the globe.

In this episode, we’re diving into coffee, the second most traded commodity in the world – which is little surprise when you consider that we drink an estimated 2.25 billion cups every single day. 

Featuring:

• Melissa Salazar, program specialist, Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems team, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Raina Lang, senior director of sustainable coffee, Conservation International
• Annette Pensel, Executive Director of the Global Coffee Platform (GCP)

Around the World in Eight Commodities delves into some of the planet’s most critical commodities, exploring the complex challenges they face and the innovative solutions being implemented around the globe.

In this episode, we take a closer look at cocoa, one of the top 10 most traded commodities in the world. It’s most famously consumed as chocolate, but it’s also used in everything from cosmetics to alternative medicine, and it plays a vital role in many spiritual rituals in South and Central America.

Featuring:

• Mawuli Coffie, country director, World Cocoa Foundation, Ghana
• Robert Yapo, agricultural economist, Côte d'Ivoire
• Hannah Ward, director of environment, World Cocoa Foundation
• Solomon Charles Kalon, monitoring, evaluation, and learning manager, GEF/FOLUR, Liberia
• Isaac Charles Acquah, Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana

The final episode of our five-part miniseries looking into transformative projects in the Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program (FOLUR).

In this episode, we talk with Seema Bhatt, Biodiversity Expert, FAO India, about nature-based farming, the resurgence of traditional agricultural techniques, and taking a region-specific approach to landscape use projects.

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Episode four of a five-part miniseries looking into transformative projects in the Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program (FOLUR).

In this episode, we talk with Nguyen Dinh Tho, Director, Institute of Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam. We discuss rice production, Vietnam’s commitment to greenhouse gas emissions, and striking a balance between “nature and use of nature; the relationship between the farmer, the forest and the food system.”

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Episode three of a five-part miniseries looking into transformative projects in the Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program (FOLUR).

In this episode, we talk with Inna Hoch, National Technical Analyst, UNDP Ukraine, about balancing solutions for people and nature, the impact of war, and some of the challenges and opportunities of implementing their FOLUR project in Northern Ukraine.

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Episode two of a five-part miniseries looking into transformative projects in the Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program (FOLUR).

In this episode, we talk with Kay Kalim, Director of Special Environmental Projects for the Conservation and Environment Protection Authority, Papua New Guinea. We discuss the role of agriculture in Papua New Guinea including challenges and opportunities in their FOLUR project.

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Episode one of a five-part miniseries looking into transformative projects in the Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program (FOLUR).

In this episode, we talk with Aziz Nurbekov, National Project Coordinator, FAO Uzbekistan, about the challenges, progress and opportunities of implementing the Uzbekistan FOLUR project.

From combating solid degradation to implementing community-level mills, find out how landscapes in Uzbekistan are set to be transformed.

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