E1: Empowering Rural Women & Youth

IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo on Empowering Rural Women & Youth in the first episode of the Food Can Fix It podcast.
We met up with Gilbert F. Houngbo, the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development and former prime minister of Togo.


On the first episode of the Food Can Fix It podcast, we talk to Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development and former prime minister of Togo.

Born and raised in rural Togo, Houngbo has spent more than 30 years working to improve the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

EAT’s podcast is available on AppleSpotifyCastboxOvercast.

We caught up with him at the EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2018 to discuss the importance of investing in women, how his upbringing has shaped his passion for working with smallholder farmers, and why it’s time for the international community to stop the talk and start walking the walk on making the youth in rural areas a priority.

About the Food Can Fix It Podcast

Food Can Fix It is a podcast produced by EAT as part of our mission to create a fair and sustainable global food system for healthy people, animals and planet.

Our weekly interviews spotlight the work of activist chefs, visionary political leaders, socially responsible investors and groundbreaking entrepreneurs and scientists who are transforming the way we produce, consume and think about food.

Tune in to hear about how children in Peru are being taught to like dark chocolate, how used tea leaves from market stalls are employed to produce mushrooms in Bangladeshi shanty towns and how the loss of pollinators is impacting investment returns.

Find EAT’s Faces of Food Podcast here.

Related content

Podcast

E2: Sustainability starts in your own home

Sustainability starts in your own home, says Chefs Manal Alalem from Egypt and Anahita Dhondy from India.

Listen Here

Read article "E2: Sustainability starts in your own home"

Podcast

E3: Why Do Investors Care About Bees?

Aviva’s Abigail Herron on why investors are increasingly paying attention to the financial risks of factory farming, oceanic plastic and the global decline of pollinators.

Podcast here

Read article "E3: Why Do Investors Care About Bees?"

Podcast

E4: Quality, Culture & Culinary Innovators

E04: Stockholm Resilience Center’s Line Gordon on “The Good Shift” Diet

Read article "E4: Quality, Culture & Culinary Innovators"