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In today's episode, I’m joined by Bettina Campolucci Bordi, chef, cookbook author and founder of the Retreat Chef Academy. Bettina grew up in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where everything was made from scratch. She has built a career around plant-based cooking that's about abundance rather than restriction. You'll hear how a missing retreat chef gave Bettina her start in food at 27, why the swede you don't know what to do with might be the best thing in your veg box, and why the humble millet, currently "budgie food", deserves a place back on our plates. Resources and links: Bettinas Kitchen Bettina on Instagram Bettina on Linkedin Connect: ⁠Future Fork podcast website⁠ ⁠Paul Newnham on Instagram⁠ ⁠Paul Newnham on X⁠ ⁠Paul Newnham on LinkedIn⁠ ⁠Disruptive Consulting Solutions website⁠ ⁠SDG2 Advocacy Hub website⁠ ⁠SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X⁠ ⁠SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook⁠ ⁠SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn⁠

In today's episode, I’m joined by Chef Abiro Wisdom, executive chef of the Ghana Food Movement, a non-profit championing Ghana's indigenous ingredients and food culture. Abiro grew up in Northern Ghana, and this year the Ghana Food Movement won the World's 50 Best Champions of Change Award. You'll hear why Ghana imports close to $1 million a year in vanilla flavouring and the indigenous spice Abiro's kitchen believes could replace it, the Northern Ghanaian food rule about eating the meat last that still shapes how he works today, and the striking testimony he heard about a woman's 90-day red sorghum diet after a cancer diagnosis. Resources and links: Chef Abiro on Linkedin Chef Abiro on Instagram Ghana Food Movement website Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

In today's episode, I’m joined by Professor Appolinaire Djikeng, Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute and CGIAR Senior Director for Livestock-Based Systems. Recorded at ILRI's headquarters in Kenya, Appolinaire talks about growing up in a village in western Cameroon where the family's pigs, goats and chickens paid for his schooling, and the work he now leads for a sector more than 1.7 billion people still depend on. You'll hear why Appolinaire says he would probably never have received an education without livestock, why a dairy farmer in Kenya may need ten animals to produce what one animal produces in the Netherlands or Australia, and why he argues livestock is the top climate solution the Global South has to offer rather than the problem it's usually cast as. Resources and links: Professor Appolinaire Djikeng, Director General, ILRI Appolinaire on LinkedIn International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)  ILRI on LinkedIn CGIAR  Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

In today's episode, I’m joined by Alice Ruhweza, President of AGRA. Alice grew up in Uganda as the daughter of the country's first post-colonial chief game warden, and spent 20 years working in conservation before taking on the job of making African farmers prosperous. You'll hear why Alice says she worked in conservation for two decades without ever being a conservationist, what happened when the communities living around Uganda's last mountain gorillas were finally asked what they actually needed, and why she thinks nutrition is the most important bet on the continent over the next decade. Resources and links: AGRA Website Alice on LinkedIn Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

In today's episode, I’m joined by Leon Aarts, co-founder and CEO of Ample, which buys surplus food from farmers at scale and turns it into plant-based meal components for schools and hospitals. Leon became a chef by accident at 19, built a fine food wholesale business and then walked away from it. You'll hear why between 15 and 20% of everything grown in the UK never leaves the farm, what happened on Leon's first day in the refugee camp in Calais, and why he thinks philanthropy has nothing to do with money. Resources and links: Leon on Linkedin Leon on Instagram Ample Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

In today's episode, I’m joined by Ana Maria Loboguerrero, Director of Adaptive and Equitable Food Systems at the Gates Foundation. Ana Maria grew up in Bogotá and now leads work that sits across three dimensions at once, climate, gender and nutrition, with most of it focused on sub-Saharan Africa. You'll hear what the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report found about the 2.7 billion people who can't afford a healthy diet, why FAO's analysis says supporting women farmers with what they need would add $1 trillion to the global economy, and the story of the two women in Ana Maria's own family who became the first and second women in Colombia to graduate as mathematicians. Resources and links: Ana Maria Loboguerrero at the Gates Foundation Ana Maria on LinkedIn Gates Foundation, Agricultural Development The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI)  Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

In today's episode, I’m once again joined by Maximo Torero, Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, on the day the 2026 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, or SOFI, is released. Each year, SOFI gives the clearest picture of where the world stands on hunger and nutrition. You'll hear why global hunger has fallen for a third year running even as official development assistance was cut by more than 25%, why Africa now has more hungry people than Asia, and why 2.7 billion people still can't afford a healthy diet — one that now costs more than the extreme poverty line itself. Resources and links: The 2026 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report  FAO website   Maximo Torero, FAO Chief Economist Maximo Torero on LinkedIn Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

In today's episode, I’m joined by Pete Henderson, founder of E2G Food and a former BBC cameraman who spent years filming famines before deciding to do something about them. E2G Food makes nutrient-dense food bars and gives them away to the people who need them most. You'll hear why Pete thinks the way the world feeds people is fundamentally broken, how a teaspoon of spirulina (pond algae dried into a green powder) can carry as much protein as a quarter of a chicken leg, and the story of the Sudanese woman Pete couldn't feed one afternoon in a famine, and why he's certain a single food bar would have saved her life. Resources and links: Pete Henderson on LinkedIn  E2G Food  Track Your Impact  Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

In today's episode, I’m joined by Jozef Youssef, multi-sensory chef and founder of Kitchen Theory. Jozef has spent over a decade designing immersive dining experiences guided by the science of how humans perceive flavour. Working alongside Professor Charles Spence, head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at Oxford University, Jozef has also published more than 35 academic papers. You'll hear why up to 90% of what we experience as flavour actually comes from smell rather than taste, the science behind why heavier cutlery makes a meal taste better and why people will pay more for it, and how a 40-minute sensory play session got a primary school boy with severe food anxiety to try spinach, asparagus, and beetroot for the very first time. Resources and links: Kitchen Theory  Jozef Youssef on Instagram Kitchen Theory on Instagram Jozef Youssef on LinkedIn Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

In today's episode, I’m joined by Dr. Kemel Ghotme, a Colombian paediatric neurosurgeon who led the first neurosurgery-led resolution in the history of the World Health Organisation, a global mandate to fortify staple foods with micronutrients to prevent neural tube defects and other birth conditions.  I spoke with Kemel in Geneva, where we were attending the third World Health Assembly since the resolution was unanimously adopted in May 2023. You'll hear why patients living with spina bifida chose to advocate for prevention over treatment, how Colombia convinced 35 countries to unanimously adopt a global health resolution in record time, and why a six-dollar intervention is projected to prevent 200,000 birth defects a year. Resources and links: Dr. Kemel Ghotme on Instagram  Dr. Kemel Ghotme on LinkedIn Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

In today's episode, Paul speaks with Priya Prakash, founder of HealthSetGo, a school health programme working across India to bring preventive healthcare, nutrition education, and basic health infrastructure to children who've never had access to it.  You'll hear why the Indian cultural definition of "healthy" for children is a misnomer, Priya shares a personal story of bullying and self-discovery that led her to build HealthSetGo from scratch and how HealthSetGo’s new initiative  Gummies for Good is trying to end Hidden Hunger in India. Resources and links: HealthSetGo website Priya Prakash on LinkedIn Priya Prakash on Instagram Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

Dr Lawrence Haddad is the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), an international organisation working across more than a dozen countries to make nutritious food more available, affordable and desirable.  In today’s episode, we explore the state of global nutrition in 2026. You'll hear Lawrence's reflections on what David Nabarro would be telling the nutrition community right now, the surprising fact that five or six of the top ten risk factors for disease in most countries come down to what we eat and why GAIN is increasingly focused on small and medium businesses as the real engine of local food systems. Resources and links: GAIN website Dr Lawrence Haddad on LinkedIn Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

In today's episode, we're talking to Alesha Miller, Chief Strategy Officer at Digital Green — a tech nonprofit putting AI tools directly into the hands of smallholder farmers around the world. We explore how digital technology is reshaping agriculture from the ground up and why the world's 500 million smallholder farmers have been chronically under-served. You'll hear how Digital Green's Farmer Chat app has already answered more than 10 million questions in farmers' own languages, why Alesha believes farmers will end up teaching AI more than AI teaches them, and the reason farmer protests are erupting in countries where data centres are now competing with farms for the same water. Resources and links: Digital Green website Alesha Miller on LinkedIn Farmer Chat on Google Play Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

Samir Wanmali is the WFP Regional Director for Asia-Pacific. With over 20 years of experience across food security, emergency operations and programme design, he has led responses in some of the world's most challenging contexts. Since November 2024, he has turned his attention to a region that feeds much of the world, yet where hunger and malnutrition persist in ways that are often overlooked. In this conversation, we explore the contradictions at the heart of the Asia-Pacific food story, a region of extraordinary abundance and economic growth where 69 million people still can't find their next meal, and 1.7 billion can't afford a healthy diet. You'll hear why climate shocks that were once considered once-in-a-century events are now happening every three years, how WFP is shifting from response to anticipatory action and the experience working with displaced communities in South Darfur that taught Samir the difference between giving people food and building something with them. Resources and links: WFP website Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn

Jamie Drummond is the co-founder of ONE.org and the founder of Sharing Strategies — an organisation that brings together philanthropies, think tanks, campaign groups and international organisations to share collective intelligence on climate and development. In this conversation, we explore why the money needed to solve the world's biggest problems already exists, and why it isn't getting to the right places. You'll hear the story of how a documentary in northern Ethiopia sparked the Drop the Debt campaign, Jamie's case for why credit rating agencies are one of the most important and overlooked levers in global development finance, and the mountain of buttered potatoes on an Irish farm table that is his most enduring food memory. Resources and links: Jamie Drummond on LinkedIn Sharing Strategies website ONE.org website Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn