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Fertilizer and soil health for enhanced productivity and sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa
01 Mar 2024

Fertilizer and soil health for enhanced productivity and sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa

In this episode, Sarah and Bernard discuss what it means for soil to be healthy and which physical, chemical and biological parameters determine soil health. He further explains how soil health impact...
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Plant nutrients can alleviate chronic and hidden hunger
21 Nov 2023

Plant nutrients can alleviate chronic and hidden hunger

In this episode, Sarah Wettstadt discusses with Patrick Brown and Fang-Jie Zhao how responsible plant nutrition can improve the health of people and alleviate hunger on our planet....
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Nutrient Use Efficiency as a means for responsible plant nutrition
09 Oct 2023

Nutrient Use Efficiency as a means for responsible plant nutrition

Tom and Sarah discuss the essence and importance of Nutrient Use Efficiency and how this concept can help farmers improve their crop yields in a sustainable manner. Tom further explains how different...
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Phosphate rock: Do we have enough for the future?
03 Jul 2023

Phosphate rock: Do we have enough for the future?

Phosphorus is an essential nutrient to support the growing global population's food needs. It has no substitutes. In this episode, Matt Lisley, Fertilizer Consultant at Argus Media, joins IFA Deputy D...
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Regenerative Agriculture – A new concept?
21 Apr 2023

Regenerative Agriculture – A new concept?

Regenerative agriculture – how does it differs from other popular farming practices like organic farming and sustainable intensification? In this episode, Professor Ken Giller, a professor of plant...
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Open Data – Accelerating Crop Nutrition Advisory Solutions
01 Mar 2023

Open Data – Accelerating Crop Nutrition Advisory Solutions

Open data offers exceptional innovation opportunities across almost every sector. In this edition of the IFA Podcast, Ron Baruchi, President & CEO of Agmatix and Cameron Ludemann, Agronomic Dat...
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Episode 2 – Securing Food and Nutrition in 2022
13 Oct 2022

Episode 2 – Securing Food and Nutrition in 2022

Reduced fertilizer consumption in 2022 raises the risk of significantly lower crop yields in the next harvest. That means lower food production and ultimately more people at risk of hunger and starvat...
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Episode 1 – Securing Food and Nutrition in 2022
14 Sep 2022

Episode 1 – Securing Food and Nutrition in 2022

Global food systems are fragile and millions of people around the world are at risk of hunger, even starvation. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on incomes, supply chains and economic growth, plus...
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Digital Solutions for Smallholder Farmers
23 Jun 2022

Digital Solutions for Smallholder Farmers

Gabriel Eze, Co-founder & CFO, Rural Farmers Hub, Nigeria and Jamie Collinson, CTO, Innovative Solutions for Decision Agriculture (iSDA), UK, talked with IFA Chief Scientist Achim Dobermann about...
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Biofortification
18 May 2022

Biofortification

Some 3 billion people in the world experience 'hidden hunger.' They might have enough rice, wheat and pulses to eat, for example, but the food lacks the vitamins and micronutrient minerals suc...
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Accelerating Crop Nutrition Innovation
07 Dec 2021

Accelerating Crop Nutrition Innovation

Kim Nicholson, VP of Ag Technology and Innovation at The Mosaic Company and Mike Pereira, Chief Agronomist of Finistere Ventures, talked to IFA Chief Scientist Achim Dobermann about why innova...
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What Is a Plant Nutrient?
08 Nov 2021

What Is a Plant Nutrient?

Patrick Brown, Distinguished Professor of Plant Nutrition at the University of California-Davis and Katja Hora, Research Manager Specialty Plant Nutrition at SQM sat down with IFA Chief Scientist Achi...
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Understanding Soil Health
20 Sep 2021

Understanding Soil Health

David Powlson, Lawes Agricultural Trust Fellow at Rothamsted Research and Joachim Lammel, VP of Sustainability and Strategic Research at Yara Farming Solutions talked to IFA Chief Scientist Dr. Achim...
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New Fertilizer Technologies
12 Jul 2021

New Fertilizer Technologies

Michael McLaughlin, Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia and Ramesh Raliya, General Manager and Head of R&D at IFFCO's Nano Biotechnology Research Centre, India sat down with IFA Chi...
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What is Fertigation?
29 Jun 2021

What is Fertigation?

Munir Rusan, Professor at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) and Hillel Magen, VP Agronomy at ICL Fertilizers and Director at the International Potash institute (IPI) sat down with IFA...
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Plant Nutrition and Biodiversity
19 May 2021

Plant Nutrition and Biodiversity

Simon Attwood, former Head of Conservation at WWF Singapore, and IFA Chief Scientist, Achim Dobermann, explore the relationship between fertilizers and biodiversity. Discover how farming and fertilize...
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Biologicals in Action: Nitrogen Fixation
23 Mar 2021

Biologicals in Action: Nitrogen Fixation

Manish Raizada, Professor in the Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph and Marcus Meadows-Smith, CEO of BioConsortia talk with IFA’s Deputy Director-General, Patrick Heffer, about th...
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A New Paradigm for Plant Nutrition
15 Feb 2021

A New Paradigm for Plant Nutrition

IFA Chief Scientist Dr. Achim Dobermann sat down with SPRPN Chair Dr. Tom Bruulsema and member Dr. Pytrik Reidsma to find out more about the New Paradigm, including some of the key issues the Panel id...
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Biostimulants in Focus
24 Nov 2020

Biostimulants in Focus

Listen to IFA Chief Scientist Dr. Achim Dobermann discuss biostimulants with guests Patrick du Jardin, Senior Scientist, Professor of Plant Biology, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, and P...
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