Catherine Nakalembe - Food in Stores Isn't Enough: Food Security in Africa - MBM #24

Dr Catherine Nakalembe is an Associate Research Professor at University of Maryland and the Program Head of NASA Harvest Africa. We talk about some of her work on using satellite imagery for Food Security in her home country of Uganda & how she got into this field in the first place.---Episode Sponsors:Element84Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast---About Catherine:TwitterLinkedInWebsiteShownotes:- NASA Harvest- Catherine’s Bio on University of Maryland’s websiteBooks & Recommendations:- The New Humanitarian- BBC Discovery- Africa Today- Little Stories for Tiny People- Catherine’s appearances on Science in Action- Leadership Journey- The Divide by Jason Hickel- Jason Hickel’s Twitter Time-stamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:04 Conversation begins: Catherine describes herself 00:08:19 Starting by wanting to play badminton 00:20:45 Wanting to work back in Uganda 00:24:32 How Catherine got into Food Security 00:32:15 What even is Food Security? 00:34:14 The Role of Remote Sensing in Food Security 00:37:58 Who benefits mapping food security? 00:44:23 How do people on the ground perceive insights from satellites? 00:48:54 Creating insights that actually get used 00:52:43 You can't improve what you can't measure 00:55:41 The Double-Edge Sword that comes with Remote Sensing at Scale 01:00:52 Not getting lost in the Maps 01:03:32 Incentives: Working from a University in the US, helping Uganda 01:10:40 The relationship between Private & Public sector in regards to Climate Change 01:13:13 The Government as the main Private Sector's Government 01:20:10 Story Telling as a Source of Change 01:27:02 Inspiring & Helping Others 01:30:53 Books & Podcast recommendations If you want to hear more about me & the podcast:My TwitterFor news about the podcastWebsite