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…
Recently I joined nearly 6500 (!) deeply engaged colleagues at the African Green Revolution Forum AGRF 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda to lay my ear to the ground. What common priorities did I hear, what concerns and what calls to action? Here are the themes that caught my attention. Think food…