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Agnes Kalibata

Agnes Kalibata

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Agnes Kalibata, the former special envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 Food Systems Summit, is President of AGRA.

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  1. A World of Food Insecurity
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    A World of Food Insecurity

    Jun 22, 2022 Agnes Kalibata offers three ideas for making food systems more resilient and sustainable in the face of new and growing risks.

  2. The Race to Sustainable Abundance
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    The Race to Sustainable Abundance

    Jul 9, 2021 Michael R. Bloomberg, et al. argue that public, economic, and planetary health are inextricably linked and must be restored together.

  3. Powering Sustainable Food Systems
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    Powering Sustainable Food Systems

    Apr 22, 2021 Agnes Kalibata & Kristina Skierka explain how to help smallholder farmers on the front lines of the climate crisis.

  4. Building Food Security During the Pandemic
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    Building Food Security During the Pandemic

    May 7, 2020 Tony Blair & Agnes Kalibata highlight four ways the international community can prevent a catastrophe in developing countries.

  5. Ensuring Food Security in the Era of COVID-19
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    Ensuring Food Security in the Era of COVID-19

    Apr 1, 2020 Thanawat Tiensin, et al. consider how governance systems can minimize the growing risks facing the most vulnerable people.

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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