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Finding the Thing You Love

Finding the Thing You Love

FromAwake At Night


Finding the Thing You Love

FromAwake At Night

ratings:
Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Feb 26, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

“We all need to be convinced that we don't have a plan B. We only have one plan. And that one plan is to correct how we do business around our food systems and what our environment can handle. Our planet can take care of itself. It will eject us and move on. But is that where we want to be?”   Dr. Agnes Kalibata, the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to the 2021 Food Systems Summit, shares her remarkable story of growing up in a Ugandan refugee camp with her Rwandan parents. Her father, a trained doctor, was forced to retrain as a farmer after relocating. But his passion for learning drives his daughter and she’s admitted into the best girls' school in Uganda, receiving a UNHCR scholarship to support her studies.    Agnes discusses how an encounter during her Ph.D led to her becoming the former Minister of Agriculture in Rwanda and why it’s so important to build resilience around climate change at this year’s Food System Summit.
Released:
Feb 26, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (97)

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