George Kourous

Higher-level primate occasionally tripped up by wetware glitches. Comms professional @FAO; Board member #GlobalDetentionProject | Views my own.

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

Accelerated climate actions can transform agrifood systems and help achieve food security and nutrition for all, today and tomorrow.

Read @FAO’s Global Roadmap to achieve #SDG2 without breaching the 1.5ºC threshold ➡️ https://t.co/SWJJJyrCxp

#COP28 #ClimateAction

[FAO Director-General QU Dongyu @FAODG]

My msg is clear: agrifood systems solutions are climate solutions! They are also solutions for biodiversity, poverty & health. We need strategic financing, integrated & coherent action, & we must be inclusive, to achieve triple wins: for people, for climate & #ForNature. #COP28

[George Kourous @yorgaki]

A reported 130 countries have signed on the Leaders Declaration on Food Systems, Agriculture and Climate Action at COP28, which includes a significant commitment to cut carbon emissions in global agrifood systems -- a historic first (although the devil will be in the details).

[FRANCE 24 English @France24_en]

@VDekimpe @LouKisiela @Antwanmorel @yenatweet 🌍 🇺🇳 On the second day of #COP28, the calls for urgent action continue.

A new #²breakthrough was achieved, however, in an agreement aiming to make #food #production more #sustainable.

FRANCE 24's @Selina_Sykes has the story 👇

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

Meet Lokuru, a livestock keeper in South Sudan, who is keeping his animals healthy and boosting the resilience of his community with the help of @FAO and partners.

Learn how solar-powered water pumps and community-based animal health workers are making a difference.

#COP28

[Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @LossandDamage]

1/19. It's the end of the first day of #COP28 in Dubai 🇦🇪, which saw the opening plenary of the COP, the #LossAndDamage Fund operationalised and over $400 million (USD) in pledges made for a Fund that needs hundreds of billions. Here are our key #LossAndDamage takeaways.🧵

[Philippa Nuttall @PhilippaNuttall]

As #COP28 kicks off, here's my piece in today's @FT on #food and #farming, issues that are properly on the agenda at a COP climate summit for the first time. Let's see what governments achieve in this crucial area

https://t.co/tCoPXUsnew

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

For over 60 years, @FAOWHOCodex standards have protected health and facilitated trade.

Codex standards...

🔶are a basis for legislation
🔶provide benchmarks for trade
🔶inform food control systems
🔶reduce spread of foodborne illness

Learn more👇

#CodexCAC46 #FoodSafety

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

Disasters are causing unprecedented levels of damage and loss in agriculture.

Investing in #DisasterRiskReduction and #AnticipatoryAction can reduce and mitigate the impact of disasters and protect our agrifood systems.

👉https://t.co/43lmKclCib

[Kimberly Sullivan @Kimberl79710473]

I highly recommend you explore this interactive story "Putting a number on hunger".

This is a great explainer to the analysis within #SOFI2023, reporting on world hunger

Take a look👇

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

The #SOFI2023 report estimates that:

🔸around 735 million people suffer from hunger
🔸over 122 million more people have been pushed into hunger since 2019
🔸more than 3.1 billion people in the world cannot afford a healthy diet

Read the full @UN report👉 https://t.co/9MLcci7QLw

[George Kourous @yorgaki]

Brave new world stuff.

[nature @Nature]

Digital art techniques can now devise custom, working biomolecules on demand.

These proteins could form the basis for vaccines, therapeutics and biomaterials.

Read the full story: https://t.co/D0bEmMp7GT

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

📙Don't miss the launch of the State of Food Security & Nutrition in the World tomorrow, 12 July!

Learn how urbanization is shaping agrifood systems & impacts availability & affordability of #HealthyDiets, #FoodSecurity & nutrition.

More 👉 https://t.co/jXtbXA95wE

#SOFI2023

[FAO in New York @FAONewYork]

Agri-#FoodSystems can play a transformational role in rescuing & accelerating progress towards #SDGs.

Rethinking #food & agriculture is crucial to reducing poverty, #hunger & malnutrition, taking #ClimateAction, & fostering decent work.

@FAO at #HLPF -> https://t.co/3ukw99DJez

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

📢 Are you a professional or amateur photographer, or simply passionate about millets?

📸🤳 Join the #YearOfMillets Photo Contest to help spread the word about the many benefits of millets!

ℹ️ How to participate & more about the challenge 👉 https://t.co/LUmESRQn81

#IYM2023

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“In a world where climate risks rarely interact, governments are already inadequately planning for potential disasters. As those risks increasingly compound one another, governments will lag even further behind the threat.”
https://t.co/geqH1LXUbl

[United Nations @UN]

Achieving the #GlobalGoals requires actions on a global, local & individual level.

Every one of us can #ActNow to help create a better & more sustainable future for all: https://t.co/dDZ0DfgqGw

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

🗓️#SaveTheDate | 12 July

📙 The State of Food Security & Nutrition in the World explores how urbanization is shaping agrifood systems & impacts availability & affordability of #HealthyDiets, #FoodSecurity & nutrition.

More about the launch👉 https://t.co/jXtbXA95wE

#SOFI2023

[Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger]

And just like that....it was the hottest recorded day on Earth yesterday https://t.co/2CAEiscsIz from @GloriaDickie

[George Kourous @yorgaki]

The point re choice is crucial. Perhaps I am jaded, or maybe we are in a certain moment in the historical cycle. Just seems that pragmatism (or worse, "what is doable") trumps principle lately.

To our peril. We need principle & intentionality.

Basic survival of the species 101.

[nature @Nature]

Hunger and famine are not accidents — they are created by the actions of people https://t.co/Zlz4tUIcvt

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

📌 Save the date!

Join @FAO and @OECD for the launch of "Agricultural Outlook 2023-2032".

📅6 July | 11:45 AM CEST

Register here👉https://t.co/cUreTFiYK5

#AgOutlook