{"podcast":{"title":"Awake At Night","slug":"awake-at-night-769564","podcast_index_feed_id":769564,"rss_url":"https://unhcr.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.un.org/en/awake-at-night","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/c/1/0/7/c107611eabf3c5b6/awakeatnight-icon-1400x1400-UN-2.0-final.png","author":"Tulin Battikhi","episode_count":141,"summary":"What does it take to be a United Nations worker in some of the world's most complex and dangerous places? How are UN humanitarians, human rights advocates, prosecutors, development experts, climate leaders and peacekeepers improving our world? Stationed in all reaches of the world and witness to suffering and atrocities, how are they helping people and coping themselves? To find out, Melissa Fleming meets them. Here you will discover extraordinary personal stories from people who devote their lives to helping others.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T00:19:21.034376+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awake-at-night-769564"},"episode":{"title":"Fighting hunger in a world of plenty, with Jean-Martin Bauer - Director, Food Security and Nutrition Analysis, World Food Programme (WFP)","slug":"fighting-hunger-in-a-world-of-plenty-with-jean-martin-bauer-director-food-security-and-nutrition-analysis-world-food-programme-wfp","published_at":"2026-01-13T10:04:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awake-at-night-769564/fighting-hunger-in-a-world-of-plenty-with-jean-martin-bauer-director-food-security-and-nutrition-analysis-world-food-programme-wfp","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awake-at-night-769564","url":"https://www.un.org/en/awake-at-night/s12-jean-martin-bauer-fighting-hunger-in-a-world-of-plenty","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/unhcr/AAN_S12_-_Jean-Martin_v1.mp3?dest-id=719614","summary":"Jean-Martin Bauer was just a teenager when a visit to his uncle's Haitian rice farm planted the seed of his life-long passion for food security. Now Director of Food Security and Nutrition Analysis at the World Food Programme (WFP) he works to feed hungry people worldwide. \" Even now, even during these dark times … there are opportunities to sow seeds for a better future.\" The world faces a global hunger crisis, with a record 319 million people currently not getting enough to eat. The author of a recent book on hunger in the Twenty-First Century, Jean-Martin Bauer reflects in this episode on the human cost of famine in Gaza and Sudan, the impact of funding cuts on the most vulnerable, and explains why the best solutions are those closest to home. \"That island in the south of Haiti was a great message of hope for everyone in the country, because the farmers of Haiti can feed themselves. They can feed the nation if given a chance .\"","meta_description":"Jean-Martin Bauer was just a teenager when a visit to his uncle's Haitian rice farm planted the seed of his life-long passion for food security. Now Direc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2265,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/awake-at-night-769564/episodes/fighting-hunger-in-a-world-of-plenty-with-jean-martin-bauer-director-food-security-and-nutrition-analysis-world-food-programme-wfp/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awake-at-night-769564/fighting-hunger-in-a-world-of-plenty-with-jean-martin-bauer-director-food-security-and-nutrition-analysis-world-food-programme-wfp.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}