While waiting for my badge to get access to the UN Headquarters in New York, I’m eating an apple. One hundred twenty five liters of water are needed for an apple. One never thinks about that much, right? But as I’m at the UN Water Conference, it is all about…
I am delighted that COP27*, the 27th edition of the United Nations Conference of Parties, is to be held in Egypt this year. And not just because that is where I started my career in 2002 establishing water authorities… At the time, the top brass in Cairo distributed the water….
Some weeks ago, my colleague Marijn Gülpen and I visited Egypt and Jordan, both countries with food systems vulnerable to climate change. Together with the Dutch agricultural counsellor and other staff from the Dutch embassies in these countries, stakeholders from governmental, private sector, research and civil society organizations discussed how…
