This end-of-year edition of IFAD's podcast FARMS. FOOD. FUTURE. spotlights the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development.

Tristan Armstrong

Senior Sector Specialist of Agricultural Development and Food Security, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Australia. GDPRD Co-Chair.

Ammad Bahalim

Senior Program Officer in Agricultural Development at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Willem Olthof

Deputy Head

Conrad Rein

Policy Officer, European Commission. Co-Chair, GDPRD.

Satu Santala

Associate Vice President of the External Relations and Governance Department at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Carin Smaller

Co-Founder, Executive Director of the Shamba Centre. Co-author of Ceres2030: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger

Maurizio Navarra

Secretariat Coordinator, Global Donor Platform for Rural Development

"FARMS. FOOD. FUTURE" is the podcast of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development is adding its voice to the podcast in a miniseries and bringing a donor perspective to the frontline of food security. IFAD, as the host of the Platform secretariat, had created a special corner of conversation for our members and partners.

"Putting our Money Where our Mouth is" has an impressive line-up of influential voices, starting with IFAD's new President Alvaro Lario and Associate Vice-President Satu Santala, with Platform Co-Chairs Tristan Armstrong and Conrad Rein and Secretariat Coordinator Maurizio Navarra.

In this special edition, we also hear from:

  • Willem Olthof, Deputy Head of International Partnerships at the European Commission
  • Ammad Bahalim, Senior Program Officer in Agricultural Development at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Carin Smaller, co-founder of Ceres2030 and currently the Executive Director of the Shamba Centre for Food and Climate
  • Dr Linda Mayox of the Gender Action Learning Systems methodology
  • Qasa Alom from Bangladesh

This edition is co-hosted by Allison Lecce of IFAD and Michelle Tang of the Global Donor Platform with special reporting from Monique Amar and Luca Passacantilli.

Thank you to our GDPRD Secretariat host IFAD for the collaboration.

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