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FAO Podcasts

The FAO Podcasts, a multilingual audio series produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, addresses pressing global issues including hunger, poverty, agriculture, and sustainability. With content available in English, Spanish, and French, our dedicated audio team ensures these vital conversations are accessible to a global audience. Our three distinct formats - the concise FAO Brief, insightful FAO Talks, and the deeply human documentary pieces - serve as your gateway to

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TZH 13 - Turning black charcoal 'green'

FAO Podcasts ·

2017/05/02

Around the world, 3 billion people lack access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking. In Africa, charcoal production has doubled in the past two decades and demand is likely to keep growing as more people move to urban centres. It is cleaner and easier to use than firewood, and is often cheaper and more readily available than gas or electricity. But the surge in charcoal use is contributing to forest degradation and in some areas also to deforestation, especially around large urban

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25:29

TZH 12 - The listening revolution

FAO Podcasts ·

2017/04/10

In this episode, we asked FAO expert Christiane Monsieur to document her trip to a handful of villages in Niger. These villages organize Dimitra Clubs. In communities all throughout Niger, there’s been a quiet revolution going on through these clubs. Its protagonists are tens of thousands-strong. They organize in local groups of women, men and young people. Their goal? Mobilizing communities to find local solutions to local problems – from stray trash to malnutrition. Their method sounds simple –

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25:38

TZH 11 - A canal runs through it

FAO Podcasts ·

2017/01/26

In this episode, we explore the relationship between peace and food security. For today’s story, we gave FAO communications officer Karina Coates a recorder to tape her visits to two FAO projects in retaken areas of Iraq. We asked her to help us better understand the impacts conflict in the region has had on agriculture and how FAO is helping farming communities regain stability. Later in the episode, Lucca Russo, an FAO expert on resilience-building, gives some examples from around the world that

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27:14

TZH 10 – Trapped at sea

FAO Podcasts ·

2016/10/12

Follow us as we take a look at the darker side of seafood: slavery aboard fishing vessels. In this week's episode, we will hear from Rahat, a Thai fisherman who was caught at sea for years before he was finally rescued from an Indonesian island in 2015. We'll also talk with victim advocates and international experts pushing for decent labor standards and stronger inspections aboard these trawlers. Along the way, we'll explore why trafficking and forced work remain so pervasive in the global fishing

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31:35

TZH 09 - A race to save the banana

FAO Podcasts ·

2016/08/01

In this week’s episode, we’re doing something a little different. We sent one of our FAO officers into the field and asked him to document his week-long mission to help stem the spread of a crippling fungus troubling the world’s most-traded fruit. We follow FAO plant disease specialist Fazil Dusunceli to Mozambique and South Africa where he meets with banana farmers, disease experts and concerned government workers – who all share one interest: containing the disease. But what does that mean

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TZH 08 – Agriculture: the view from space

FAO Podcasts ·

2016/06/20

How can satellites benefit agriculture? That’s the central question In this week’s episode, in which we take a closer look at how remote sensing -- or earth monitoring from space – helps farmers and governments take smarter decisions regarding their agriculture, forestry and fisheries. We’ll hear about a new data partnership between FAO and Google, learn how agriculture experts use satellite data in the field, and how this technology has evolved with the switch from analog to digital.

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TZH07 -Drones, data, food security

FAO Podcasts ·

2016/05/23

What do drones have to offer to agriculture? That’s the central question in this week’s episode of TARGET: Zero hunger. We'll take you on a sonic journey to the Philippines, where FAO is using drones to gather detailed land and crop images for disaster preparedness, and then to the U.S. state of Kansas, where one team of researchers is zooming in on invasive bugs with the help of remote-controlled eyes in the sky.

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22:10

TZH 06- The power of pollinators: why more bees means...

FAO Podcasts ·

2016/05/04

In this week’s episode of TARGET: Zero Hunger we explore the power of pollinators. For centuries, bees and other pollinators have labored the world’s fields without winning much recognition for their many contributions to food production. You will hear from Barbara Gemmill-Herren. She spearheaded an FAO-led study into the connection between pollination and crop yield that has been published recently in the magazine Science. Then we will take you to Ghana, West Africa, where our team from the FAO

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TZH 05 - 500 Brazilian Cows & the Future of Food...

FAO Podcasts ·

2016/04/22

Brazil's Pantanal region is the world’s largest tropical wetland, with a biodiversity and local culture so rich that it’s a UNESCO World Heritage site. In this week’s episode we take you deep into this region to explore what conserving the genetic heritage of one local animal breed means for this special ecosystem, for local culture and traditions, and for food security on an increasingly harsher planet. Along the way, we hear from researchers at EMBRAPA and the State University of Mato Grosso

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25:56

TZH 04 - Pulses: Orphan Crop of the Super foods

FAO Podcasts ·

2016/03/29

In the fourth episode of TARGET: Zero Hunger we walk you through some fertile ground by digging into the ideas and perceptions concerning one of our world’s most powerful super foods. We explore why pulses have become an orphan crop and we’ll talk to some of the people trying hard to change that.In this episode, we hear Paulina Ceballos from the Global Pulse Confederation explain the trouble with the word "pulse" and why we should celebrate the international year; Food critic and writer Saúl Cepeda

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TZH 03 - Can biotech benefit smallholder farmers...

FAO Podcasts ·

2016/03/11

In this week’s episode of TARGET: Zero Hunger, we take a closer look at a set of tools that in many ways influence what the future of agriculture will look like. And that set of tools is biotechnology. What kind of biotechnologies are available today and how can they benefit smallholder farmers in the developing world? In February this year, some 400 scientist, farmers, policy makers and industry representatives gathered at the International Symposium on Agricultural Biotechnologies held at FAO

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TZH 02 - Catching food fraudsters through isotopes

FAO Podcasts ·

2016/02/26

In this second episode of TARGET: Zero Hunger we delve in to the $50-billion world of food fraud and the science used to expose it -- to discover that our food has finger prints. Our journey into the authenticity of food takes us from a small cheese shop in Italy to Austria where we explore how FAO and the International Atomic Energy Agency collaborate on nuclear technology for food and agriculture. We'll also hear stories about the rice fields of India and Pakistan. Along the way we talk to

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25:31

TZH 01 - Producing food in times of crisis

FAO Podcasts ·

2016/02/12

In this first episode of TARGET: Zero Hunger, we explore FAO’s work in emergencies and what it takes to help families produce food in some of the most difficult crisis regions in the world. FAO Communications officer Like Visser takes us deep into the Nyal region of South Sudan, where people have been struggling with severe food insecurity for months; and we speak to Etienne Peterschmitt, who leads FAO’s emergency response to the crisis in Yemen, about the day-to-day realities of supporting food

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