Future Fork with Paul Newnham

In today’s episode, I’m joined by Enock Chikava, Director of Economic Opportunity, Africa at the Gates Foundation. Enock grew up as one of 11 children on a two-hectare smallholder farm in Zimbabwe, where his mum is still farming today.You’ll hear why chickens in Africa survived the kind of heat that was killing chickens in France, why chicken costs $7 a kilo in Nigeria and $2 in Brazil, and how Enock’s mum swapped maize for sorghum and millet, got 10 times the price, and ended up with Starlink on the farm.Resources and links:Enock on LinkedInGates Foundation profileConnect:Future Fork podcast websitePaul Newnham on InstagramPaul Newnham on XPaul Newnham on LinkedInDisruptive Consulting Solutions websiteSDG2 Advocacy Hub websiteSDG2 Advocacy Hub on XSDG2 Advocacy Hub on FacebookSDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

In today's episode, I’m joined by Bettina Campolucci Bordi, chef, cookbook author and founder of the Retreat Chef Academy. Bettina grew up in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where everything was made from scratch. She has built a career around plant-based cooking that's about abundance rather than restriction.You'll hear how a missing retreat chef gave Bettina her start in food at 27, why the swede you don't know what to do with might be the best thing in your veg box, and why the humble millet, currently "budgie food", deserves a place back on our plates.Resources and links:Bettinas KitchenBettina on InstagramBettina on LinkedinConnect:⁠Future Fork podcast website⁠⁠Paul Newnham on Instagram⁠⁠Paul Newnham on X⁠⁠Paul Newnham on LinkedIn⁠⁠Disruptive Consulting Solutions website⁠⁠SDG2 Advocacy Hub website⁠⁠SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X⁠⁠SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook⁠⁠SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn⁠

In today's episode, I’m joined by Chef Abiro Wisdom, executive chef of the Ghana Food Movement, a non-profit championing Ghana's indigenous ingredients and food culture. Abiro grew up in Northern Ghana, and this year the Ghana Food Movement won the World's 50 Best Champions of Change Award.You'll hear why Ghana imports close to $1 million a year in vanilla flavouring and the indigenous spice Abiro's kitchen believes could replace it, the Northern Ghanaian food rule about eating the meat last that still shapes how he works today, and the striking testimony he heard about a woman's 90-day red sorghum diet after a cancer diagnosis.Resources and links:Chef Abiro on LinkedinChef Abiro on InstagramGhana Food Movement websiteConnect:Future Fork podcast websitePaul Newnham on InstagramPaul Newnham on XPaul Newnham on LinkedInDisruptive Consulting Solutions websiteSDG2 Advocacy Hub websiteSDG2 Advocacy Hub on XSDG2 Advocacy Hub on FacebookSDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

In today's episode, I’m joined by Professor Appolinaire Djikeng, Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute and CGIAR Senior Director for Livestock-Based Systems. Recorded at ILRI's headquarters in Kenya, Appolinaire talks about growing up in a village in western Cameroon where the family's pigs, goats and chickens paid for his schooling, and the work he now leads for a sector more than 1.7 billion people still depend on.You'll hear why Appolinaire says he would probably never have received an education without livestock, why a dairy farmer in Kenya may need ten animals to produce what one animal produces in the Netherlands or Australia, and why he argues livestock is the top climate solution the Global South has to offer rather than the problem it's usually cast as.Resources and links:Professor Appolinaire Djikeng, Director General, ILRIAppolinaire on LinkedInInternational Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) ILRI on LinkedInCGIAR Connect:Future Fork podcast websitePaul Newnham on InstagramPaul Newnham on XPaul Newnham on LinkedInDisruptive Consulting Solutions websiteSDG2 Advocacy Hub websiteSDG2 Advocacy Hub on XSDG2 Advocacy Hub on FacebookSDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

In today's episode, I’m joined by Alice Ruhweza, President of AGRA. Alice grew up in Uganda as the daughter of the country's first post-colonial chief game warden, and spent 20 years working in conservation before taking on the job of making African farmers prosperous.You'll hear why Alice says she worked in conservation for two decades without ever being a conservationist, what happened when the communities living around Uganda's last mountain gorillas were finally asked what they actually needed, and why she thinks nutrition is the most important bet on the continent over the next decade.Resources and links:AGRA WebsiteAlice on LinkedInConnect:Future Fork podcast websitePaul Newnham on InstagramPaul Newnham on XPaul Newnham on LinkedInDisruptive Consulting Solutions websiteSDG2 Advocacy Hub websiteSDG2 Advocacy Hub on XSDG2 Advocacy Hub on FacebookSDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn