Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)

Danielle Nierenberg

danielle@foodtank.com

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Booking Overview

A weekly interview-and-news show focused on food systems, agriculture, nutrition, and food policy, it typically features academics, policy experts, nonprofit leaders, and agricultural practitioners alongside food-news coverage. Credible pitches would include researchers, senior food-system leaders, policymakers, and experts with substantial work in climate, hunger, nutrition, agroecology, or international development; booking difficulty is high because guests generally hold prominent institutional or academic positions.

Metrics

Episodes: 571

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 11.9k subscribers

Instagram: 63.0k followers

Contact Information

danielle@foodtank.com

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Host

Danielle Nierenberg - Food systems researcher, writer, and co-founder and president of Food Tank, an organization focused on building a more sustainable, healthy, and equitable food system.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
University professors, senior researchers, food-policy specialists, nonprofit or international-development leaders, and senior practitioners with demonstrated expertise in agriculture, nutrition, climate, hunger, or food-system transformation.
Required Achievements:  
University professorships and research leadership, Leadership roles in food, agriculture, or development organizations, Published research or policy work on food systems, nutrition, climate, or global development

Recent Guest Discussions

Vijay Kumar Thallam - Agroecology, Conventional Agriculture, Farmer Empowerment, And The Role Of Women Farmers In Large-scale Food-system Transformation.

Jessica Fanzo - Food-system Transformation, Food And Agriculture Policy, Climate, Urban Food Systems, And Solutions For Global Food Security.

Caitlin Grady - The Consequences Of Dismantling USAID For Global Food And Nutrition Security, Research, Policy, And Science-based Decision-making.

Patrick Webb - The Dismantling Of USAID, Global Food And Nutrition Security, Institutional Memory, And The Role Of Science In Development Policy.

Recent Topics

Food Systems, Agriculture, Nutrition, Food Policy, Sustainability

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)
:

563. $127 Million in USDA Grants Restored, Nigeria's Hunger Crisis Deepens, and a Conversation with Vijay Kumar Thallam on a 'Simple but Profound' Farming Solution Spreading Around the World

July 09, 2026

On Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg, Dani speaks with Vijay Kumar Thallam, Executive Vice Chair of Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (the Farmer Empowerment Organisation). They discuss the conventional agriculture practices based on outdated science, the growth of one of the world's largest agroecology projects, and the women central to the initiative's success. Plus, India acts to empower women farmers, a judge orders USDA to restore millions in land- access grants for producers, Nigeria's hunger crisis...

562. Agrifood Investment Can Create 5 Million Jobs, SNAP Enrollment Falls, and a Conversation with Jessica Fanzo on Building the Food System We Know Is Possible

July 02, 2026

On Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg, Dani speaks with Jessica Fanzo, a Professor of Food Policy & Climate at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Europe. They discuss whether decisionmakers' awareness of the links between food, agriculture and climate is growing, the amazing potential of food systems transformation in urban centers, and what Fanzo believes would be a "game changer for humanity." Plus, organizations step up to help the victims of Venezuela's earthquakes...

561. A Conversation with Patrick Webb and Caitlin Grady on Dismantling USAID: What it Means, Part 4

June 25, 2026

On Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg, Dani speaks with Patrick Webb, a Professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, and Caitlin Grady, Associate Professor and Director of Research and Policy at the Global Food Institute at the George Washington University, for Part 4 of Food Tank's series exploring the far-reaching impacts of dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development. They discuss what the loss of USAID means for global food and nutrition ...

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