The New Agriculturist

Episodes

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   The New Agriculturist podcast 2012-1

   Haven Ley explains how the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is focussing on support for women farmers, both in upstream research and in downstream interventions. Bolanle Adeyemo, who runs an NGO that empowers women in Nigeria, describes her excitement at being part of a plan to multiply Vitamin…

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   Jan 9, 2012

   10 min
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   The New Agriculturist podcast 2011-6

   As a tribute to Wangari Maathai, Kenya’s tireless campaigner for environmental protection who died in September this year, Francesca de Gasparis, Europe Director of the Green Belt Movement, reflects on Maathai’s message and the ongoing work to protect the forests of Kenya. We hear also from two...

   Nov 7, 2011

   9 min
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   The New Agriculturist podcast 2011-5

   My perspective writer, Simon Levine, explains how famine can be averted by responding to the right signals, so that interventions are done in time to prevent a crisis. Agnes Luo Laima, who represents small-scale farmers and marketeers in Zambia, describes the biggest challenge her association...

   Sep 8, 2011

   9 min
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   The New Agriculturist podcast 2011-4

   We hear from Zanzibar's east coast and from the coastal wetlands of The Gambia about two projects that are giving low status women a stronger voice in dealing with buyers and politicians. And a professor from the University of Ontario explains why she thinks the current spate of land deals cannot...

   Jul 4, 2011

   10 min