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…
This blog was written by Jaap van der Meer and Saskia Visser The seas and oceans are considered as a great underutilized source of human food and some recent reports* suggest that marine food production can be increased substantially. In one of our previous blogs we stated that the marine…
