UN agency President at EAT Stockholm Food Forum:
UN agency President at EAT Stockholm Food Forum: striking the right balance to feed the world
Rome, 7 June 2018 – Ending poverty and hunger top the list of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, but achieving this shared ambition by 2030 will only happen if the world finds the right balance between meeting rising food demands while simultaneously preserving the environment and building community resilience, according to Gilbert F. Houngbo, the President of the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Already more than 800 million people go to bed hungry each night, a man-made travesty that will only worsen as agriculture is increasingly affected by climate change. It is estimated that by 2050, 22 per cent of cultivated areas will suffer impacts, agricultural production will shrink and rising ocean temperatures and acid levels will lead to declines in fish stocks. At the same time, demand for food will more than double as the urban population grows. As a keynote speaker at the EAT Stockholm Food Forum on Monday, Houngbo will explain the tenuous balance between feeding the world, protecting the environment and the role of the poorest most marginalized families.
“How we switch food from being a driver of many of our greatest global health and environmental challenges to instead becoming a powerful tool for tackling them, is one of the most critical questions of our time,” says Alessandro Demaio, CEO of EAT. “Just as these challenges are intimately intertwined, our actions to address them must be integrated across sectors, disciplines and continents. As such, the work of international organizations such as IFAD is critical, and our hope is that the leaders and experts converging in Stockholm this week will make decisive contributions toward the urgent food transformation that is needed to meet the 2030 Agenda.”
Each year the EAT Stockholm Food Forum attracts more than 500 top global leaders from science, politics, business and civil society to share knowledge and best practices, and coordinate action across sectors and disciplines to tackle the intertwined challenges of the global food system. Other speakers alongside Houngbo will include Sweden’s Minister for International Development Cooperation and Climate and Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lövin and Norway’s Minister of International Development Nikolai Astrup.
While in Stockholm, Houngbo will join IFAD’s Recipes for Change chefs Ska Mirriam, a Lesotho born chef and media personality, and Ali Said Mandhry from Kenya, popularly known as Chef Ali L’artiste, a media personality, culinary instructor and food stylist. The Recipes for Change campaign exposes the threats rural communities face as climatic changes impact the essential ingredients used in their traditional foods and daily meals. It demonstrates how IFAD, through the Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme, is working with farming families to adapt to the very real impacts of climate change in their communities. The chefs will join others in the community to launch at the EAT Stockholm Food Forum a Chefs’ Manifesto – a thematic framework that identifies food issues that matter most to chefs and grounded in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Contact:Katie TaftMobile: +39 334 6083657Email: k.taft@ifad.org
Uttar Pradesh to achieve Open Defecation Free (ODF) status by 2nd October, 2018
Uttar Pradesh, June 05, 2018: UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath reviewed the progress of the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G) in Lucknow with all District Magistrates of the State through Video Conferencing last evening. Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India was also in attendance, along with Chief Secretary Uttar Pradesh and other senior officials of the state.
The Chief Minister reiterated the state’s commitment to achieve open defecation free (ODF) status for UP by 2nd October 2018, one year ahead of the national deadline of 2nd October 2019. He highlighted the importance of making the SBM-G a Jan Andolan, and not just a government program. He said that the districts that have done well are the ones who have successfully gotten all sections of society involved. He also appealed to all DMs to take accountability and involve all sections of society in the mission, and spend at least one hour every day to personally monitor progress.
The Chief Minister also asked the DMs to leverage social media for better monitoring of implementation of the program in the field. He focused on the quality of the process being followed for behavior change triggering, and instructed the DMs to ensure timely payment of incentives to Swachhagrahis and masons.
UP has made significant progress in the last six months, with the sanitation coverage for the state going past 70%. Seven districts and over 28,000 villages have been declared ODF in the state. Nationally, the sanitation coverage has increased from 39% in 2014 to nearly 85%, with over 3.75 lakh villages, 389 districts, 13 States and 4 UTs already declared ODF.
Nickelodeon brings magic to the kids
Nickelodeon brings magic to the kids’ entertainment category with the Prince of Magic “Rudra – Boom ChikChik Boom”
~Rudra is all set to up the entertainment quotient for kids only on Nickelodeon, starting 11thJune, 2018 every Monday to Friday at 7.25pm~
June 6th, 2018, National:Nickelodeon, India’s leading kids’ entertainment franchise and a pioneer in creating homegrown content in the country is all set to introducethePrince of Magic “Rudra – Boom ChikChik Boom”. A category first, Rudra is a magic comedy series that is all set to enthrall young viewers of Nickelodeon starting 11thJune 2018, every Monday to Friday at 7.25pm.
Rudra is the story of a 9-year-old boy who is a spirited and intelligent. He lives in the magical Sun City with his grandfather Jai Singh, a supreme magician and patriarch. Always curious to learn, Rudra is being mentored by his grandfather to emerge as his successor and the greatest magician ever. Rudra’s journey in the world of magic is made exciting with his best friends Varun and Maira who together protect Sun City from the Super-Evil magician Shakaal and his minions.
All set for the launch, RUDRA will be painting the country orange and making friends with his young viewers along the way.
UC Browser Witnesses 50% Surge in Content Consumers for T20 Cricket League
- IPL 2018 most watched in Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad
- Chennai Super Kings & Sunrisers Hyderabad most popular keywords, followed by MS Dhoni and Mumbai Indians.
New Delhi, June 08, 2018: UC Browser, the leading mobile browser in India, witnessed a jump of over 50% unique visitors during the recently concluded IPL 2018. Having transformed itself into a leading content distribution platform, UC Browser provided cricket fans with over 2.5 lakh articles, to meet the increased demand for specialized content from users.
The total page views saw a jump of 24% this cricket season and the users spent 10% more time catching up on cricket news versus last year, according to UC Trends, a soon to be launched trend index platform from UCWeb, a business within Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group.
Further consolidates its position as a leading content distribution platform
“UC Browser not only empowers its users with access to a mix of regular and niche content on our platform but also the content partners who can gain followers and increase readership of their content,” said Damon Xi, General Manager – India & Indonesia, UCWeb, Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group.
“We are happy to be working with over 9000 content partners on our platform during this cricket season and look forward to embracing more partners to join the platform and deliver valuable content to our users,” he further added.
UC Trends, a platform for mobile content trends and insights, will soon be launched to empower content creators to better understand users’ demand and leverage insights into content consumption trends.
Insights into the content consumption trends for IPL 2018
According to the recent trend report from UC Trends, this year’s edition of IPL saw over 7,000 publishers in Hindi and over 2,400 publishers in English analyzing the cricket season from unique and interesting angles for the readers.
UC We-Media contributor Mysterious World’s ‘ChrisGayle out of IPL, won’t play matches anymore’ got over 5.3 lakh views followed by unique news pieces from Cric Claver Cricket, Sports 360 and News Bomb. Articles from Focus Cricket and Apna Cricket got maximum comments whereas articles from Dainik Bhaskar and Khel Wala ranked high in the Sharing Index.
Southern cities of Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad contributed most to the cricket frenzy, lending maximum eyeballs to IPL. Chennai Super Kings&Sunrisers Hyderabad were the most popular keywords, followed by MS Dhoni and Mumbai Indians. Chennai Super Kingsheld on to the top spot in all popular keywords throughout IPL, with almost 8,600 articles mentioning the team.
With increasing demand for online content consumption, UC Browser has transformed itself from being the largest mobile browser to a leading content distribution platform in India by integrating with news feeds from UC News. It is now an ideal platform for accessing different kinds of content and the first choice option for mobile browsing. UC Trends, a mobile trends platform by UCWeb, is dedicated to providing a one-stop platform for mobile content trends and insights.
Conference Antaram by Vision India Foundation
Naresh Kumar Sagar: Namaskar Sir/Madam Ji
It gives us immense pleasure to invite you to cover a two-day education conference Antaram by Vision India Foundation (VIF) as a part of nation’s foremost Public Policy Residential Policy Bootcamp in partnership with MHRD (Unnat Bharat Abhiyan). The conference would feature 8 amazing private educational initiatives in education, 3 state government interventions and the central governments perspective of education. The conference is to be hosted at IIT Delhi on the 9th and 10th June 2018.
Antaram features leading educationists, thinkers, practitioners, representatives of visionary schools across India, grass-roots leaders – teachers, principals, civil society representatives, education-entrepreneurs. The 250 delegates for this conference are coming from 24 states of India, and 90 campuses, and have interests in working in education domain.
Date: 9th-10th June, 2018
Venue: Lecture Hall Complex, IIT Delhi, New Delhi
Please find the detailed schedule attached hereby.
Also, for further details please feel free to contact me on +91 7000537085, +91 7587168737 (Suyash Pande).
Looking forward to your gracious presence,
Singapore FM to visit N. Korea
Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan will visit Pyongyang on Thursday and Friday, the country’s government said in a statement on Wednesday. His trip to North Korea comes nearly a week before the historic meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12 in Singapore. Balakrishnan will be accompanied by officials from the country’s Foreign Ministry. The summit between the US and North Korean leaders will be held on Singapore’s southern island of Sentosa, the White House said on Tuesday.
ALT Balaji all set to Launch “Hero Varrdiwala”
ALTBalaji brings to you its first ever Bhojpuri show ‘Hero Varrdiwala’ starring Bhojpuri superstar Dinesh Lal Yadav. The show has names like Dinesh Lal Yadav, Amrapali Dubey and Mahesh Pandey (producer) associated with it and the makers don’t want to leave any stone unturned when it comes to making the show look authentic and massy. To add more glamour to this high-octane action and drama series, makers have roped in the sultry Sambhavna Seth for an item number.
Sambhavna, who has impressed the audience with her performance in TV show Razia Sultan and Bhojpuri movies Rakhtbhoomi and Nagina will be featuring opposite Dinesh Lal Yadav in the song and would also be making her digital debut. This is also the first time that any homegrown OTT platform is experimenting with an item number for the show.
Sambhavna recently posted a tweet on her social networking site and shared her excitement of being part of this hot and sexy item number.
Here’s Sambhavna’s tweet: Did a killer song yesterday for @altbalaji’s India’s Bhojpuri web series hero varrdiwala with the superstar and my very favourite Dinesh thank u so much for giving me best song of the year @maheshpandey05 and @baljitsinghchaddha it was lovely meeting you after so many years
Produced by Mahesh Pandey, the show stars Dinesh Lal Yadav in the lead and will soon be streaming on ALTBalaji app and website
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