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Sprouts Radio from the Grassroots is a 30-minute weekly program featuring radio programs produced at community radio stations or by other independent producers from across the country and sometimes around the world.
This show grew from a proposal for Citizen Diplomacy with North Korea through agriculture inspired by Nikita Khruschev’s 1959 visit to the Iowa farm of Roswell Garst. We heard of this idea from Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, president of the World Food Prize, “the Nobel Prize of Agriculture,” (located in Des Moines). The World Food Prize of $250,000 is awarded annually to a Nobel-like ceremony to ground-breaking agricultural researchers all over the world. Liz Garst told us her memories of being at the Khrushchev-Garst meeting, as well as the way it came about and its pivotal role in thawing the Cold War. Daniel Jasper, Public Education and Advocacy Coordinator for Asia for the American Friends Service Committee, described some of today’s “back channels” of communication that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson mentioned his recent visit to Beijing. They all suggested, “If it worked with the Soviet Union, is it possible it could work with North Korea?
Credits:
Hosted, produced, and edited by Susan Franzen. Engineered by Rebekka Reuter, KHOI Radio, Ames, Iowa.
