Jean-Martin Bauer: How Data Enables the WFP to Effectively Feed a Country - MBM #26

Jean Martin Bauer is the Country Director for the World Food Programme in Haiti, where his job is in simple terms to ensure the population does not run out of food. This conversation focuses on the use of data - specifically satellite imagery & maps - and how it helps feed the country.

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Time-stamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:53 Conversation Starts: Jean-Martin presents himself
03:08 Humanitarian Geography
10:31 Jean-Martin's current role: WFP's Haiti Director
16:39 How do we know the food situation in a country?
21:10 Gathering Data To Understand the Food Situation in a Country
26:18 Modelling at a Global & Local level
31:03 Distributing Data is also hard
32:14 Getting people involved
35:56 Online Human Rights
40:34 What New Space means for WFP
45:21 What's in it for Private Companies to work wit NGOs?
48:57 Building Trust when Predictions come First from Machine Learning
52:25 Disruption is Not Always the Goal
53:32 Financing Collecting Data in the Humanitarian World
01:01:19 The Role of Data for Jean-Martin's role as Country Director
01:05:56 Making Hard Decision when Numbers represent real People's Livelihood
01:09:58 Jean-Martin's Critical Look on the Data Science Community
01:14:19 Books & Podcast Recommendations
01:17:16 Outro

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[isatagny]

Very informative podcast. Pleased to listen to this conversation on the use of data for food security interventions, and theimportance of integrating context, sharing and transfering knowledge. Thanksto both of you