IFA Podcasts

Achim Dobermann continues discussing soil health with his guests and why we need healthy soil for a healthy planet and environment. 

Join Achim Dobermann and his guests for a discussion on soil health and why we need healthy soil for a healthy planet and environment. 

 In this episode, Sarah and Bernard discuss what it means for soil to be healthy and which physical, chemical and biological parameters determine soil health. He further explains how soil health impacts the health of our population. 

In this episode, Sarah Wettstadt discusses with Patrick Brown and Fang-Jie Zhao how responsible plant nutrition can improve the health of people and alleviate hunger on our planet. 

Tom and Sarah discuss the essence and importance of Nutrient Use Efficiency and how this concept can help farmers improve their crop yields in a sustainable manner. Tom further explains how different indicators inform farmers to achieve positive nutrient use efficiency highlighting why these indicators are important for the different players in the food production chain - all the way to the food consumer. 

Phosphorus is an essential nutrient to support the growing global population's food needs. It has no substitutes. In this episode, Matt Lisley,  Fertilizer Consultant  at Argus Consulting Services, joins IFA Deputy Director-General, Patrick Heffer, to discuss the recent assessment of the world's phosphate rock resources and reserves. The podcast explores topics such as estimated lifespan, emerging technologies, and the significance of responsible management for a sustainable future. 

Open data offers exceptional innovation opportunities across almost every sector.

In this edition of the IFA Podcast, Ron Baruchi, President & CEO of Agmatix and Cameron Ludemann, Agronomic Data Scientist at Wageningen University & Research, spoke with IFA Chief Scientist Achim Dobermann talk about the importance of open access data sharing, specific to field data. The two speakers spoke of the data gap in the adoption of digital agriculture, bottlenecks to open access data, including interoperability and data connectedness issues, and shared examples of innovative open data platforms. 

Reduced fertilizer consumption in 2022 raises the risk of significantly lower crop yields in the next harvest. That means lower food production and ultimately more people at risk of hunger and starvation.

In this second part of our Securing food and nutrition in 2022 podcast, Ben Valk - Global Head of Food and Agri Partnerships for Rabobank - speaks with IFA CEO/Director General Alzbeta Klein about emergency measures to ensure resilience - including short-term finance for farmers and hotspot country interventions such as the Sustain Africa Initiative.

In part one of the podcast, featuring Dr. David Nabarro - the World Health Organization's Special Envoy on Covid-19 – Klein and Nabarro discussed the evolving nature of the food crisis and what is being done to bridge farmers’ access to fertilizers, seeds and nutrient use efficiency advice.

Global food systems are fragile and millions of people around the world are at risk of hunger, even starvation. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on incomes, supply chains and economic growth, plus the ongoing effects of climate change and the war in Ukraine have brought us to a point not seen since the 2008 food crisis. The most vulnerable countries are those facing balance of payments crises at the same time as their populations are struggling with rising costs and falling incomes. But efforts are underway to secure food and nutrition in 2022 and to build resilience. 

In this edition of the IFA Podcast, Dr. David Nabarro, the World Health Organization's Special Envoy on Covid-19  spoke with IFA CEO/Director General Alzbeta Klein about the evolving nature of the food crisis and what is being done to help – including, short- and medium-term measures to get fertilizers, seeds and nutrient use efficiency advice to farmers, especially smallholder farmers in poorer communities.