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Transforming agri-food systems is powerful lever for achieving global goals
In address to Rome’s storied Lincei science institute, FAO Director-General QU outlines Four Betters approach, calls for holistic and systemic thinking
25 February 2021, Rome - A holistic redesign of the world s agri-food systems can make outsized contributions to achieving global pledges such as ending hunger by 2030, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said in a keynote lecture at Italy s historic Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Agri-food systems are the world s largest economic system, measured in terms of employment, livelihoods and planetary impact, Qu said, noting that four billion people are employed directly or indirectly in food systems, in which poverty and hunger are nonetheless endemic.
Transforming agri-food systems is powerful lever for achieving global goals
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In address to Rome’s storied Lincei science institute, FAO Director-General QU outlines Four Betters approach, calls for holistic and systemic thinking
25 February 2021, Rome - A holistic redesign of the world s agri-food systems can make outsized contributions to achieving global pledges such as ending hunger by 2030, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said in a keynote lecture at Italy s historic Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Agri-food systems are the world s largest economic system, measured in terms of employment, livelihoods and planetary impact, Qu said, noting that four billion people are employed directly or indirectly in food systems, in which poverty and hunger are nonetheless endemic.
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Professor Noble Banadda of Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda has become the first African to be awarded the Pius XI medal. This is in recognition of his outstanding researches in science and engineering. The medal, which is awarded by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences every two years to a scientist under the age of 45, was established by Pope John XXIII to promote scientific research. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Food Science and Technology from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, earned his Master’s in Processing Engineering and a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. There, he became the first black African to get a Doctorate degree from the University and by the end of his Doctorate, he had nine journal papers in peer-reviewed scientific papers. He ha