The World Food Prize Podcast with Rikin Gandhi, Co-founder and CEO of Digital Green
On this episode of the World Food Prize Podcast, host Tom Vilsack sits down with Rikin Gandhi, Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Green, for an insightful conversation at the intersection of artificial intelligence, agriculture and global food and nutrition security. They explore Gandhi’s journey from engineer to founder and his mission to apply technology in service of smallholder farmers.
The discussion highlights how FarmerChat transforms research, extension knowledge and data into real-time, localized guidance on crops, livestock, inputs and climate risk for more than one million farmers across Asia, Africa and Latin America. The conversation also examines how AI can benefit public extension systems, increase farmer agency and scale responsibly while maintaining trust and accessibility. Listeners gain insight into how partnerships among governments, researchers and industry-combined with data-driven, farmer-centered innovation-can build climate resilience and advance food and nutrition security worldwide.
