27. The Importance of High Quality Seed with Wycliffe Ingoi from Advanta Seeds
Release Date: 11/07/2022
35. Directeur Général de l'AGRF, Pathé Sene et sa vision pour le Forum des Systèmes Alimentaires de l'Afrique
The AGRF Podcast
Pathé Sene, le Directeur Général de l'AGRF, est responsable de la croissance stratégique et de la gestion quotidienne de son secrétariat en tant que forum indépendant, panafricain et multipartenaire. Avant de rejoindre l'AGRF, Pathé était le principal spécialiste régional de l'environnement et du changement climatique pour le FIDA en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre, basé à Rome et plus tard à Abidjan. Il a également été directeur du bureau sous-régional du FIDA à Abidjan et directeur de pays pour la Côte d'Ivoire, le Niger et le Libéria. Avant de rejoindre le FIDA, Pathé...
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34. Célia Chabi, Fondatrice de Kiel bien-être et Gagnante du Prix de la Valeur Ajoutée de WAYA 2022
The AGRF Podcast
Dans cet épisode Tanya Alden-Zeter discute avec Célia Chabi. Elle est fondatrice de Kiel bien-être, une enterprise qui spécialise dans la production et la commercialisation de produits très nutritifs à base de baobab. Du café au baobab, jusqu'aux croquettes et des baumes et pommades fabriqués avec le baobab, ces produits sont adaptés pour tout le monde, y compris les femmes enceintes, les enfants et les personnes agées. Une psychosociologue, Célia est passionée par la nature et par la nutrition - deux passions qui l'ont motivé à créer son enterprise. Celle-ci a été fondée...
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33. Fatou Manneh, Founder of Jelmah Herbella, on Supporting Women in Agriculture
The AGRF Podcast
On this episode we speak to Fatou Manneh, founder of Jelmah Herbella, which was created to add value to products produce in the Gambia and to contribute to unleash the growth potentials of rural women and farmers. Fatou is the 2022 winner of the rising star award for young female agripreneur for The VALUE4HER Women Agripreneurs of the Year Awards (WAYA), awards which aim to create visibility for successful women and promote them as positive role models, trigger innovation, and spur ambition among women agripreneurs.Fatou has an inspirational story about her background, how she was inspired to...
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32. Tei Mukunya From Nature Lock Foods on Establishing an SME
The AGRF Podcast
An inspirational conversation with start-up founder Tei Mukunya, with Umuliza Njiru communication lead at the Rockerfeller Foundation’s Africa Regional Office, about how Tei was inspired by using healthy food products and watching her family trying to dry foods to start her own food brand. We discuss the challenges with getting products to the market as an SME, developing resilience, the importance of having mentors and advisors, the Good Food Innovation Fund and working hard to help make healthy food easier to access for busy people and their families.
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31. IDH’s Cyril Ugwu, Transforming Food Systems and The Success of the IDH Cassava Programme
The AGRF Podcast
Cyril Ugwu, Country Director for IDH Nigeria office and also leader of the IDH casava programme, talks to Elske Stevenson, Senior Communications Manager at IDH, about how IDH put ‘people, planets and progress’ at the heart of trade by levering the power of markets to create better jobs and opportunities for all with a focus on SMEs and farmers at the core of their support offerings. He tells us about the Cassava Progamme and the work they are doing to streamline and increase farming production and support and work towards the idea of zero hunger in Africa and indeed the world in an...
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30. Jack Kimani CEO of Climate Action Platform for Africa on Harnessing Africa’s Climate Champion Potential
The AGRF Podcast
UN Climate Champions' Fiona Napier talks to Jack Kimani, CEO Climate Action Platform for Africa (CAP-A) about looking at a different approach to how Africa approaches climate change. Kimani discusses moving away from the dominant narrative of the damage caused and towards the opportunities for the continent to benefit from tackling these issues, but in so doing being able to create an engine for economic growth and job creation. He suggests how a lot of Africa’s assets – energy, vast amounts of land, a larger energetic and youthful work force - could be used to competitive advantage to...
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29. Dr. Florence Wambugu on Scaling and Diversifying Farming Across Africa
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Dr. Florence Wambugu, Kenyan plant pathologist and virologist, is known for her advocacy of using biotechnology to increase food production in Africa. On this episode we talk about how life and work changed since she won the Africa Food Prize, her work with Africa Harvest, scaling and diversifying across Africa, partnering with development and doners, tissue culture, developing innovative seed systems to move from low productivity to high and changing the fortunes of farmers on the ground, the advice she would give to African governments to support growth and resolve hunger in Africa,...
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28. The Rockerfeller Foundation Schools' Feeding Program, with Betty Kibaara & Peiman Milani
The AGRF Podcast
On this episode we learn all about the fantastic Rockerfeller Foundation Schools' Feeding Program and discuss Regenerative Agriculture, diversifying crops, producing food and supporting the environment, how to feed a growing population during climate crises and droughts and other challenges, how to get farmers to understand that the food on the plate is an important as the money in their pocket, the best way to get nutritious food to everyone affordably and much more.
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27. The Importance of High Quality Seed with Wycliffe Ingoi from Advanta Seeds
The AGRF Podcast
Wycliffe Ingoi from Advanta Seeds, delivering farming solutions and technology to farmers spanning across 84 countries, highlights why seed quality is so important and how ultimately investing in quality seed will produce a higher yield, serve to protect farmers during a time of climate change and support the development of go-to market strategies. We also explore how governments, providers, farmers and indeed consumers can work together to try to solve the problems of food production.
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26. How Tech Can Transform Africa’s Food Systems, with Lilian Ndungu and Raj Singh from the Tony Blair Institute
The AGRF Podcast
Lilian Ndungu, leading agriculture tech adviser advising the government of Rwanda and Raj Singh, manager of global agriculture of food advisory at the Tony Blair Institute have an in-depth discussion about the exciting innovations in ag tech, how technology is changing all the way from how we go about our agriculture to even how we eat our food, what technologies should governments adopt that can be sustainability adopted, how to use this information to help farmers make decisions on their farms, putting the farmer at the centre of agricultural transformation, informing government and...
info_outlineWycliffe Ingoi from Advanta Seeds, delivering farming solutions and technology to farmers spanning across 84 countries, highlights why seed quality is so important and how ultimately investing in quality seed will produce a higher yield, serve to protect farmers during a time of climate change and support the development of go-to market strategies. We also explore how governments, providers, farmers and indeed consumers can work together to try to solve the problems of food production.