{"id":51,"date":"2018-05-11T22:39:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T22:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/?p=51"},"modified":"2018-05-11T22:39:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T22:39:40","slug":"global-hunger-today-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/2018\/05\/11\/global-hunger-today-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Global Hunger Today&#8217; Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/05\/received_10156036497673141-300x155.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/05\/received_10156036497673141-300x155.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/05\/received_10156036497673141-768x396.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/05\/received_10156036497673141-1024x528.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/05\/received_10156036497673141-960x495.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/05\/received_10156036497673141.jpeg 2001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me with my two MSc CCAFS colleagues and Michael Fitzgibbon from UCC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/05\/20180511_112110-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/05\/20180511_112110-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/05\/20180511_112110-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/05\/20180511_112110-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/05\/20180511_112110-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today I had an opportunity to attend the global hunger conference in UCC. I met some of my sponsors and heard about the wonderful work they are doing in Africa, in terms of Aid. The conference was mainly focused on achieving the second sustainable development goal, \u2018Zero Hunger\u2019. \u00a0To achieve the second sustainable goal, Africa and other South Asian countries, should use a holistic approach to combat malnutrition, which focuses beyond increasing production. The approach should focus on several issues such as, raising household incomes, investing in maternal education, improving sanitation and improving maternal and child health. Furthermore, funding initiatives should be monitored through impact assessments at a local level, to ensure that funding aid and other development systems reach poor communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today I had an opportunity to attend the global hunger conference in UCC. I met some of my sponsors and heard about the wonderful work they are doing in Africa, in terms of Aid. The conference was mainly focused on achieving the second sustainable development goal, \u2018Zero Hunger\u2019. \u00a0To achieve the second sustainable goal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/2018\/05\/11\/global-hunger-today-conference\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"&#8216;Global Hunger Today&#8217; Conference\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/andiswa-nyongwana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}