Table for 10 Billion
Table for 10 Billion is a podcast from the World Bank's Agriculture and Food team that explores the challenges and innovations in feeding a growing global population. Each episode delves into topics like sustainable agriculture, food security, and the role of technology in transforming food systems. The podcast features interviews with experts and practitioners working to ensure that everyone has access to nutritious food. It aims to inform and inspire action towards a more resilient and equitable food future.
Episodes
Unpacking AgriConnect: how do we reach 300 million farmers?
Agriculture's next leap: Artificial Intelligence
The episode explores how AI is beginning to reshape the agriculture and food sector – from diagnosing crop diseases with a smartphone photo to powering localized weather forecasts and enabling more efficient supply chains. While technological breakthroughs are advancing rapidly, their real-world impact depends on public goods such as digital public infrastructure and enabling regulation. The speak
Can bugs help end hunger?
In this episode, we dive into the fascinating world of insect farming—boosting children’s protein intake, turning waste into fertilizer, feeding livestock and new sources of revenue in the developing world. From fighting malnutrition to restoring soil and saving forests, these tiny creatures may hold the key to some of the world’s biggest challenges.
The Future of Rice: Viet Nam’s Million-Hectare Transformation
Viet Nam is growing rice better, and plans to expand it to one million hectares.
What kind of financing does agriculture need to create jobs and prevent climate change?
This episode discuses how better financing for farmers can help create better jobs along the food system's value chain, while at the same time reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Recipe for a Livable Planet
Climate change is threatening the world’s efforts to feed a growing population. But our food system is also part of the problem, contributing almost a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The global potential of seaweed market
With its ability to sink carbon, sustain marine biodiversity, employ women, and unlock value chains, seaweed farming demonstrates how development, climate, and nature work together to generate value and uplift communities. Seaweed farming can help build a world free of poverty on a livable planet and has enormous growth potential.
Countries prepare plans to mitigate food crises
Episode 9 • August 21, 2023 • Table for 10 Billion • World Bank Group - Agriculture and Food Global Practic
Food systems transformation
As the world continues to grapple with the food crisis, we need to remember that this problem didn’t emerge overnight. Resolving the situation we face today requires a sharper focus than ever on transforming our food systems to make them more sustainable while feeding a growing global population. A well running food system will help build human capital, lift communities out of poverty, and improve
One Health Approach Can Prevent the Next Pandemic
The number of emerging infectious disease (EID) outbreaks has grown to several hundred per year since 2000. What will it take for world leaders, countries, organizations, and communities to understand that prevention is better than cure? The World Bank’s latest flagship report, "Putting Pandemics Behind Us: Investing in One Health to Reduce Risks of Emerging Infectious Diseases," is a clario
Fertilizer volatility and the food crisis
Fertilizers provide crops with the nutrients to grow better,making them essential to the world’s food supply. As such, when shocks occur,such as when fertilizer prices increase or when supply is disrupted, the impactis felt by the global food system in its entirety. This explains what we areseeing today: the war in Ukraine, high-energy prices, and restrictive tradepolicies have caused fertilizer s
How Can Agriculture Help People in Fragile and Conflict Situations?
Food is often scarce in countries afflicted by fragility, conflict and violence. But solutions require more than feeding people for today. To truly help those caught in these often terrifying situations it’s important to look at how they will be able to eat tomorrow, too. That means agriculture. The World Bank’s Holger Kray joins host Jason Fields to discuss about this topic.
Farming the Future: Insects
When you think of the world's immense biodiversity, it's surprising people eat such a small variety of foods – a few grains, a few animal species. One of the main sources of protein in the animal kingdom remains largely uncultivated: insects. Farming them in an organized way presents an opportunity to make a dent in hunger and climate change while creating jobs.Dorte Verner, lead agriculture econo
How can the world feed itself as the planet heats up?
Global warming is forcing agriculture to change. Farmers are planting different crops, planting at night, and harvesting shade during the day. The World Bank's Erick Fernandes joins host Jason Fields to discuss the future of agriculture and the adjustments that need to be made to fight growing food insecurity as the world heats up.
Is Digital Agriculture Key to Food Security?
Where will digital agriculture lead? And why is it so important in the effort to reach zero hunger by 2030, as set out in UN Sustainable Development Goal 2? In this episode of Table for 10 Billion we speak with experts Jessica Fanzo of John’s Hopkins University and the World Bank’s own Julian Lampietti on their views of agriculture’s future.
Why Is Hunger Growing?
In the first episode of Table for 10 Billion host Jason Fields is joined by Hanane Ahmed, Senior Agriculture Economist, and Christopher Ian Brett, Lead Agribusiness Specialist, to discuss the issue of growing hunger around the world. The conversation touches on topics ranging from economic inequality to broken distribution systems to fragility, conflict and violence.
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