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From a farmhouse conversation to 500 tonnes of wheat
How two friends in Leeton turned a question about global hunger into a practical movement supported by Riverina farmers.
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ABC News / Landline
Mates team up with NSW Riverina farmers to help feed people in Sudan
ABC Landline journalist Kath Sullivan tells the story of the friendship between Riverina farmer Rob Houghton and community leader Ken Dachi, beginning with mung beans and regular farmhouse meals. The feature follows their effort to mobilise local farmers, secure 100 tonnes of donated wheat, and overcome the significant logistical and financial challenges of moving it toward people affected by the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
June 6, 2026
Fix The News
Grain of Hope: How six people in rural Australia are shipping 500 tonnes of wheat to Sudan
In this in-depth feature, Amy Rose traces Grain of Hope from the founders’ first conversations in Leeton to its larger ambition of creating a farmer-led pathway for responding to global hunger. The article explores Rob and Ken’s friendship, the urgency of the Sudan crisis, the commitment of Riverina farmers, the extraordinary cost of moving donated grain, and the team’s vision of making grain donation possible at delivery sites across Australia.
March 2, 2026
Fix The News Podcast
Grain of Hope – How Australian Farmers Are Tackling Global Hunger
Hosts Angus Hervey and Amy Davoren-Rose speak with Rob Houghton and Ken Dachi about turning a farmhouse conversation into a practical response to global hunger. The 35-minute episode examines the real cost and complexity of delivering 100 tonnes of wheat, why the team chose to respond to Sudan, the strengths and limitations of traditional aid systems, and what becomes possible when ordinary people act through their own communities and professions.
April 15, 2026
iHeart
Grain of Hope: How Australian Farmers Are Tackling Global Hunger
iHeart carries the Fix The News podcast conversation with Grain of Hope founders Rob Houghton and Ken Dachi. The episode covers the initiative’s origins, the practical challenge of transporting Australian wheat into a humanitarian crisis, community support in the Riverina, and the founders’ longer-term hope of building a repeatable model for farmer-led action against hunger. This is a distribution of the Fix The News podcast rather than a separate interview.
April 15, 2026
Podscripts
Hope Is A Verb – Grain of Hope: How Australian Farmers Are Tackling Global Hunger
Podscripts provides a searchable transcript of the Fix The News podcast episode featuring Rob Houghton and Ken Dachi. The transcript captures their discussion of the friendship behind Grain of Hope, the costs and setbacks involved in moving donated wheat, the responsibility of managing public support, and their determination to turn a locally grounded initiative into a wider response to hunger. This is a transcript archive, not a separate media appearance.
April 15, 2026
AVALW News
Riverina farmers launch Grain of Hope to ship donated wheat to Sudan
AVALW News summarises the Grain of Hope story following the ABC News Australia broadcast. The report describes how Rob Houghton and Ken Dachi’s friendship developed in Leeton, how a conversation about global affairs became an initiative to respond to hunger in Sudan, and how neighbouring farmers committed the first 100 tonnes of wheat. This is an independently published summary based primarily on the ABC coverage, not a separate interview.
June 7, 2026
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