Unpacking AgriConnect: how do we reach 300 million farmers?
25 Nov 2025
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 speakers emphasizes that AI adoption in agriculture is not merely a technical challenge but a governance challenge – requiring open data frameworks and long-term investment in skills.
Speakers:
Alesha Miller, Chief Strategy Officer, Digital Green
Cathy Kamanu, Kenyan farmer
Parmesh Shah, Global Lead for Data-Driven, Digital Agriculture and Innovations, the World Bank
Ranveer Chandra, Managing Director, Research for Industry at Microsoft
1 Jul 2025
Can bugs help end hunger?
This episode explores how insect farming addresses global challenges like malnutrition, soil restoration, and deforestation by providing sustainable protein sources and converting waste into valuable resources.
12 Jun 2025
The Future of Rice: Viet Nam’s Million-Hectare Transformation
Viet Nam's agricultural advancements and plans to expand rice cultivation to one million hectares promises to reshape the future of rice production.
6 Dec 2024
What kind of financing does agriculture need to create jobs and prevent climate change?
Agriculture experts discuss how better financing can create jobs and prevent climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions through sustainable farming practices.
21 Jun 2024
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.
25 Nov 2023
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.
21 Aug 2023
Countries prepare plans to mitigate food crises
Episode 9 • August 21, 2023 • Table for 10 Billion • World Bank Group - Agriculture and Food Global Practic
13 Apr 2023
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 climate resilience.
24 Oct 2022
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 clarion call for the universal adoption of an integrated approach to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals, and ecosystems.
22 Jul 2022
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 impact
is felt by the global food system in its entirety. This explains what we are
seeing today: the war in Ukraine, high-energy prices, and restrictive trade
policies have caused fertilizer supply to go down and prices to go up. While
the effects of this shortage will be felt across the globe, developing
countries are among the worst hit.
16 Feb 2022
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.
8 Dec 2021
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 economist in the food and agriculture global practice, joins show host Jason Fields to discuss a new report on the subject: ‘Insect and Hydroponic Farming in Africa: The New Circular Food Economy’.
CREDITS
Host: Jason Fields, communications consultant, World Bank
Guest: Dorte Verner, lead agriculture economist in the food and agriculture global practice
Report Authors and Contributors: Dorte Verner, Nanna Roos, Afton Halloran, Glenn Surabian, Edinaldo Tebaldi, Maximillian Ashwill, Saleema Vellani, and Yasuo Konishi
15 Jul 2021
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.
26 May 2021
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.
8 Mar 2021
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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