connellfoley

Director of Strategy, Advocacy, Learning at Concern Worldwide. Still curious and trying to get below the surface.

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Great suggestion by Ruerd Ruben of Wageningen Uni to change urban diets by using entry point of institutions' food consumption: schools, hospitals, universities, conferences like this!!! This could have spillover effect. #acceleratingzerohunger @Concern

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#AcceleratingZeroHunger Fascinating outline by Corinna Hawkes on urban food policies and initiatives and what is actually happening. Nutrition often missing. @Concern. Worth reading this up.

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Wow... how exciting to hear potential of gene editing of crops to be tolerant to sea water... innovations in biosalinity and genomics. How exciting!! #Acceleratingzerohunger @Concern

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#AcceleratingZeroHunger Shocking productivity stat from Ian Wright (ILRI): ""the average milk yield from cows in Africa is 6% of that in the OECD!" @Concern @ifiad @Irish_Aid So if we double the yield, we need half the herd so can reduce emissions! @UNFCCC Surely not so simple?

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#Acceleratingzerohunger Great analysis by Michael Clarke, Oxford Univ & lead author of upcoming EAT-Lancet Commission report: changing diet more useful for sustainability than increasing production or reducing waste. #Acceleratingzerohunger BAU in pic = business as usual!

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At a conference, I feel like a magpie, picking up shiny scraps to bring back to my nest @Concern. Something odd and dissonant: the intent to act on this learning; yet our nests dominating when @SDGchallenge pushes joint action. #AcceleratingZeroHunger

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#Acceleratingzerohunger If you liked what Guido Girardi said about the power of multinationals in shaping diets, read the famous 1973 speech at the UN by Salvador Allende on the uncontrolled power of multinationals!!! Both Chileans standing up for human rights!

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Global Nutrition Report launched here at #AcceleratingZeroHunger conference suggests that up to 75% of global stunting burden is in fragile states, the focus of @Concern. Also look at African stunting map... our targeting solid!! @Irish_Aid

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Professor Corinna Hawkes just launched Global Nutrition Report at #Acceleratingzerohunger Conference in Bangkok. Very sobering reading!! She says: "diets are pretty diabolical... and everywhere! ...We need to galvanize action on improving diets." @Concern @Irish_Aid

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#Acceleratingzerohunger Akhter Ahmed says of Bangladesh's lengthy contribution to innovation and development learning... "not by chance... but by an investment in knowledge" @Concern proud of our contribution to that in Bangladesh.@AKMMusha

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#AcceleratingZeroHunger Prabhu Pingali of Cornell University suggests many accelerators... i really like his "promote opportunities for "leapfrogging" traditional infrastructure constraints". @Concern... South Sudan comes to mind!!

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#AcceleratingZeroHunger IFPRI's Dan Gilligan gave interesting overview on evidence on hunger interventions in fragile contexts... or weak level of same. @Concern up for and up to the challenge. Talk to us, Dan!!

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#AcceleratingZeroHunger Great videos by young people. Love the DRC one on the AgriZoom App. He says: "we need agriculture in more schools. We need agriculture in ICT Institutes!" Great energy, great impatience! "Mol an oige agus tiocfaidh si" @Concern

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Gerda Verburg, head of SUN movement at what is needed #acceleratingzerohunger "we talk too much; we implement too little!" Please, no more new global initiatives. Build on what is there." I could not agree more. @Concern. @Irish_Aid

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Chilean Guido Girardi: we need to stop being accomplices in spread of junk food; children have affinity with brands... break that. We got rid of Tony the Tiger from a cereal!! Put clear, easy to understand labels... the right to know is a human right!! #AcceleratingZeroHunger

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Stunning activism from Senator Guido Girardi of Chile. Don't call obesity a non- communicable disease....the most communicable disease is... " aggressive marketing"! The problem is the globalisation of junk food! #AcceleratingZeroHunger . Take note everywhere. @Concern

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Excellent advice from Laotian Dep Minister of Agriculture, Phouang Parisak: "deal with poverty at the same time". Also "be patient...don't change course, nor lower targets." #AcceleratingZeroHunger. @Concern

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Gerardine Mukeshimana, Ag Minister of Rwanda: main lessons of success: political will, people-centred interventions but also "a high level of accountability based on numbers, numbers, numbers..." @Concern, @Alliance_2015

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#AcceleratingZeroHunger Inonge Wina, VP of Zambia: "go beyond good intentions, beyond rhetoric... follow with actions". Reminds me if "believing in action" @Concern

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Good to see two women giving keynote speeches at #AcceleratingZeroHunger. Zinash Tayachew, First Lady, Ethiopia and Inonge Wina, Vice President, Zambia. @Concern @Alliance_2015 We need more women leaders!