Episode 16: World Food Prize Podcast with Apoorva Oza and Didier Van Bignoot of Aga Khan Foundation
In this episode of the World Food Prize Podcast, Dialogue That Feeds the World, Tom Vilsack speaks with Apoorva Oza and Didier Van Bignoot of the Aga Khan Foundation about how food security today requires a wider lens, from climate pressures and economic opportunity to community resilience and sustainable development. The conversation explores the importance of locally led solutions to food insecurity and climate challenges. It highlights how the Aga Khan Foundation’s integrated work across agriculture, climate resilience, education, health and enterprise reflects a systems-based approach to development. The discussion draws on lessons from diverse regions across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and considers how climate change is reshaping rural livelihoods. Finally, it underscores the importance of investing in people—through skills, entrepreneurship and local institutions—as the foundation of long-term resilience.
