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Podcasts from the International Fertilizer Association (IFA). IFA was founded in 1927 and is the only global fertilizer association, with more than 400 members in 70 countries and a mission to promote efficient and responsible production, distribution and use of plant nutrients. This mission plays a
5 May 2025 · 59 min
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦-𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐩 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧? This discussion shares insights from Agri Benchmark, highlighting how comparative analysis of fertilizer practices and cost structures can help improve productivity and long-term planning in farming systems.
5 May 2025 · 1 hr 5 min
Potassium remains an important element in today’s need for agricultural resilience. This is a discussion on the implications of its limitation and how addressing it can transform global crop productivity.
10 Apr 2025 · 27 min
This episode explores novel fertilisers, a technology transforming how we deliver essential minerals and nutrients to crops. They promise better efficiency and improved plant nutrition. Mike McLaughlin, lead author of a groundbreaking Issue Brief from the SPRPN, and Achim Doberman discuss this promising fertiliser technology and how it may improve agricultural practices.
7 Apr 2025 · 19 min
In this episode, we'll dive into a crucial environmental challenge: the intersection of agriculture and climate change. We will focus on the relationship between fertilisers and greenhouse gas emissions and learn that even though fertilisers are crucial for our global food security, they come with a significant carbon footprint.
20 Nov 2024 · 17 min
Achim Dobermann continues discussing soil health with his guests and why we need healthy soil for a healthy planet and environment.
20 Nov 2024 · 20 min
Join Achim Dobermann and his guests for a discussion on soil health and why we need healthy soil for a healthy planet and environment.
29 Feb 2024 · 30 min
In this episode, Sarah and Bernard discuss what it means for soil to be healthy and which physical, chemical and biological parameters determine soil health. He further explains how soil health impacts the health of our population.
21 Nov 2023 · 18 min
In this episode, Sarah Wettstadt discusses with Patrick Brown and Fang-Jie Zhao how responsible plant nutrition can improve the health of people and alleviate hunger on our planet.
6 Oct 2023 · 21 min
Tom and Sarah discuss the essence and importance of Nutrient Use Efficiency and how this concept can help farmers improve their crop yields in a sustainable manner. Tom further explains how different indicators inform farmers to achieve positive nutrient use efficiency highlighting why these indicators are important for the different players in the food production chain - all the way to the food consumer.
21 Jun 2023 · 18 min
Phosphorus is an essential nutrient to support the growing global population's food needs. It has no substitutes. In this episode, Matt Lisley, Fertilizer Consultant at Argus Consulting Services, joins IFA Deputy Director-General, Patrick Heffer, to discuss the recent assessment of the world's phosphate rock resources and reserves. The podcast explores topics such as estimated lifespan, emerging technologies, and the significance of responsible management for a sustainable future....
21 Apr 2023 · 24 min
1 Mar 2023 · 20 min
Open data offers exceptional innovation opportunities across almost every sector. In this edition of the IFA Podcast, Ron Baruchi, President & CEO of Agmatix and Cameron Ludemann, Agronomic Data Scientist at Wageningen University & Research, spoke with IFA Chief Scientist Achim Dobermann talk about the importance of open access data sharing, specific to field data. The two speakers spoke of the data gap in the adoption of digital agriculture, bottlenecks to open access data, including...
12 Oct 2022 · 21 min
Reduced fertilizer consumption in 2022 raises the risk of significantly lower crop yields in the next harvest. That means lower food production and ultimately more people at risk of hunger and starvation. In this second part of our Securing food and nutrition in 2022 podcast, Ben Valk - Global Head of Food and Agri Partnerships for Rabobank - speaks with IFA CEO/Director General Alzbeta Klein about emergency measures to ensure resilience - including short-term finance for farmers and hotspot ...
E1 · 8 Sep 2022 · 33 min
Global food systems are fragile and millions of people around the world are at risk of hunger, even starvation. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on incomes, supply chains and economic growth, plus the ongoing effects of climate change and the war in Ukraine have brought us to a point not seen since the 2008 food crisis. The most vulnerable countries are those facing balance of payments crises at the same time as their populations are struggling with rising costs and falling incomes. But ef...
23 Jun 2022 · 26 min
Gabriel Eze, Co-founder & CFO, Rural Farmers Hub, Nigeria and Jamie Collinson, CTO, Innovative Solutions for Decision Agriculture (iSDA), UK, talked with IFA Chief Scientist Achim Dobermann about how digital advisory solutions can benefit smallholder farmers in Africa, particularly with regards to efficient use of nutrients and other agronomic advice. Hear more about the work and vision of Rural Farmers Hub and iSDA and how digital advisory solutions can scale up to reach millions of farm...
2 Apr 2022 · 26 min
Some 3 billion people in the world experience 'hidden hunger.' They might have enough rice, wheat and pulses to eat, for example, but the food lacks the vitamins and micronutrient minerals such as zinc, iron, selenium and iodine needed for normal brain development and strong immune systems. How can we use fertilizers to improve the micronutrient content of food crops? Ismail Cakmak, Professor of Plant Nutrition, Sabanci University, Turkey, and Martin Broadley, Professor and Science Director, ...
7 Dec 2021 · 22 min
Kim Nicholson, VP of Ag Technology and Innovation at The Mosaic Company and Mike Pereira, Chief Agronomist of Finistere Ventures, talked to IFA Chief Scientist Achim Dobermann about why innovation should become the key driver for the transformation of the crop nutrition industry. Find out about innovations in other sectors that will affect the fertilizer industry, opportunities for accelerating innovation, creating the right culture, and the challenge of scaling up farmer adoption.
8 Nov 2021 · 28 min
Patrick Brown, Distinguished Professor of Plant Nutrition at the University of California-Davis and Katja Hora, Research Manager Specialty Plant Nutrition at SQM sat down with IFA Chief Scientist Achim Dobermann to explore the idea of a new, broader definition of plant nutrients. Find out how a new definition of what a plant nutrient is has the potential to revitalize innovation and discovery; and could align better with nutrients deemed essential for animal and human nutrition, to create a m...
20 Sep 2021 · 29 min
David Powlson, Lawes Agricultural Trust Fellow at Rothamsted Research and Joachim Lammel, VP of Sustainability and Strategic Research at Yara Farming Solutions talked to IFA Chief Scientist Achim Dobermann about soil health and carbon sequestration. Find out why interest in soil health is growing, how it can be measured, what can be done to improve it and the potential of soil to capture carbon from the atmosphere.
9 Jul 2021 · 24 min
Michael McLaughlin, Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia and Ramesh Raliya, General Manager and Head of R&D at IFFCO's Nano Biotechnology Research Centre, India sat down with IFA Chief Scientist Achim Dobermann to discuss the future of smarter fertilizers and developments in fertilizer technology, including discussing the potential and challenges for nano-technology in crop nutrition.
28 Jun 2021 · 29 min
Munir Rusan, Professor at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) and Hillel Magen, VP Agronomy at ICL Fertilizers and Director at the International Potash institute (IPI) sat down with IFA Deputy Director-General, Patrick Heffer, about the benefits and potential of fertigation for improving nutrient and water use efficiency, increasing farmers’ incomes, growing crops on marginal land and improving yields.
17 May 2021 · 29 min
Simon Attwood, former Head of Conservation at WWF Singapore, and IFA Chief Scientist, Achim Dobermann talk with IFA Communications Specialist Sam Joll about the relationship between fertilizers and biodiversity. Discover how farming and fertilizers can affect biodiversity, the importance of sustainable intensification to help avoid land conversion and how nutrient management can protect biodiversity.
22 Mar 2021 · 29 min
Manish Raizada, Professor in the Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph and Marcus Meadows-Smith, CEO of BioConsortia talk with IFA’s Deputy Director-General, Patrick Heffer, about the benefits and potential of Nitrogen-fixing microbials as a tool available to farmers to improve plant nutrition.
15 Feb 2021 · 33 min
The Scientific Panel on Responsible Plant Nutrition (SPRPN) is a group of scientists contributing their expertise to support the fertilizer industry’s efforts to solve the global issues it faces. The Panel has recently published its first issue brief, called A New Paradigm for Plant Nutrition (https://bit.ly/3uaolGO), which describes their vision for transitions in the practice of plant nutrition. IFA Chief Scientist Dr. Achim Dobermann sat down with SPRPN Chair Dr. Tom Bruulsema and member ...
24 Nov 2020 · 23 min
Plant biostimulants are an important tool for sustainable agriculture due to their ability to enhance tolerance to abiotic stress, nutrient use efficiency, crop performance and quality. They are complementary to mineral fertilizers by improving the availability, assimilation, translocation and use of plant nutrients to the plants. Listen to IFA Chief Scientist Dr. Achim Dobermann discuss biostimulants with guests Patrick du Jardin, Senior Scientist, Professor of Plant Biology, Gembloux ...
Podcasts from the International Fertilizer Association (IFA). IFA was founded in 1927 and is the only global fertilizer association, with more than 400 members in 70 countries and a mission to promote efficient and responsible production, distribution and use of plant nutrients. This mission plays a
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