VAM Talks

By United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) | Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping Service (VAM)

Food security analysis, also known as Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM), is a core function of the World Food Programme's (WFP’s) work. VAM analyses the food security situation and answers some... more

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How many episodes does VAM Talks have?

The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.

VAM Talks episodes:

March 31, 2017 VAM Talks: Episode 10
Alice Clough interviews the VAM team in the Afghanistan country office about why they’ve started using mVAM’s remote food security monitoring system.
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16min
February 24, 2017 VAM Talks: Episode 9
VAM’s Arif Husain and Jean-Martin Bauer travel to New York for a hackathon run by Nielsen where the participants try to build a food security surveying chatbot.
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12min
October 10, 2016 VAM Talks: Episode 8
Alice Clough interviews Gideon Shimshon from Leiden University’s Centre of Innovation about collaborating with WFP and how using Big Data analysis can help promote food security.
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8min
August 09, 2016 VAM Talks: Episode 7
Bienvenue au VAM Talks en français! Ce premier épisode présente mVAM et son utilisation au Burundi.
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8min
July 20, 2016 VAM Talks: Episode 6
The team heads to a Hackathon in Amsterdam where we challenged data scientists to apply their data science skills to humanitarian problems and ‘hack hunger’.
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10min
June 23, 2016 VAM Talks: Episode 5
Alice Clough interviews Sid Krishnaswarmy from WFP Uganda about why the country office is adding mVAM to its existing repertoire of food security surveys.
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8min
April 08, 2016 VAM Talks: Episode 4
Alice Clough interviews Elliot Vhurumuku, Eric Branckaert, and Eliana Favari, regional VAM officers, to learn more about the mVAM roll out in East Africa, West Africa and the Middle East.
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10min
April 08, 2016 VAM Talks: Episode 3
Professor Nathan Morrow, one of the authors of the mVAM Review, talks about mVAM’s achievements and challenges.
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9min
February 04, 2016 VAM Talks: Episode 2
Jean-Martin Bauer, live from Juba, talks about mVAM’s latest venture: preparing mobile data collection in South Sudan.
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5min
December 07, 2015 VAM Talks: Episode 1
Jean-Martin Bauer, WFP Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping (VAM) officer and founder of WFP's mobile VAM project, explains how mVAM works and how it's helping WFP collect data in dangerous places.
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20min

FAQs about VAM Talks:

How many episodes does VAM Talks have?

The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.