Table for 10 Billion World Bank Group - Agriculture and Food Global Practice

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.

Episode 9 • August 21, 2023 • Table for 10 Billion • World Bank Group - Agriculture and Food Global Practic

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.

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.

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.

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.