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The AGRF Podcast

Jan 12, 2023

An inspirational conversation with start-up founder Tei Mukunya, with Umuliza Njiru  communication lead at the Rockerfeller Foundation’s Africa Regional Office, about how Tei was inspired by using healthy food products and watching her family trying to dry foods to start her own food brand. We discuss the challenges...


Dec 8, 2022

UN Climate Champions' Fiona Napier talks to Jack Kimani, CEO Climate Action Platform for Africa (CAP-A) about looking at a different approach to how Africa approaches climate change. Kimani discusses moving away from the dominant narrative of the damage caused and towards the opportunities for the continent to...


Nov 29, 2022

Dr. Florence Wambugu, Kenyan plant pathologist and virologist, is known for her advocacy of using biotechnology to increase food production in Africa. On this episode we talk about how life and work changed since she won the Africa Food Prize, her work with Africa Harvest, scaling and diversifying across Africa,...


Sep 1, 2022

Today's discussion is on rice, the role it plays in tackling food security and stories from the Rice Race initiative. Our guests are Florent Clair, Head of Partnerships for Sustainability, Africa and Middle East UPL and Valentine Miheso, Senior Partnerships Officer, AGRA. 


Aug 26, 2022

This episode is a recording of the President Youth Townhall at AGRF 2021 held in Nairobi, Kenya and online with President of Kenya, H. E. Uhuru Kenyatta, spotlighting a new policy approved by the Kenyan Government with the aim of returning agricultural learning and clubs in schools.

The AGRF 2022 is on 6th-9th...