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117. The Seeds Are Sown for a Food Revolution with Agnes Kalibata

Published: Sept. 24, 2021, 8:45 p.m.

Following the success of UN Food Systems Summit, or as it\u2019s also known- \u201cThe People\u2019s Summit\u201d we get a chance to speak to the driving force behind it, UN Secretary-General\u2019s Special Envoy for the Food Systems Summit, Agnes Kalibata.

Formerly Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) from 2008 to 2014, she drove programs that moved her country to food security helping to lift more than a million Rwandans out of poverty.

Now as Special Envoy, her efforts toward progress of the delivery of the SDGs, and to prioritise Food Systems in the global conversation around climate change are coming to a 2 year culmination. Besides this summit being the first time the UN has called a summit dedicated to food systems, it is engaging more than 100,000 people from 147 countries through 900 independent multi-stakeholder dialogues on food system transformation. UN Summits are often mostly prepared statements by member states. This move to put people and dialogue at the center was a radical return to destroying our siloed thinking when it comes to global issues.

The Food Revolution begins with a Thought Revolution, and people are at the heart of systemic change.

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