{"id":222,"date":"2018-06-14T12:11:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T12:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/?p=222"},"modified":"2018-07-20T09:32:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T09:32:37","slug":"are-we-serious-about-meeting-the-sustainable-development-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/2018\/06\/14\/are-we-serious-about-meeting-the-sustainable-development-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we serious about meeting the Sustainable Development Goals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/06\/SDG-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignbottom size-large wp-image-298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/06\/SDG-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/06\/SDG-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/06\/SDG-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/06\/SDG-960x642.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/06\/SDG.jpg 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nI came across a really interesting article to read on the CCAFS blog. Bruce Campbell (CCAFS), Philip Thornton (CCAFS), Svend Christensen (University of Copenhagen), Ishmael Sunga (SACAU), and Dawit Solomon (CCAFS) share their thoughts on how agricultural advisory services at global scale can be instrumental in achieving the SDGs. The article lists five key issues around agricultural advisory which need to be addressed in order to reach half a billion farmers and achieve the SDGs by 2030.<br \/>\nThe key issues include:<br \/>\n1. Private sector involvement<br \/>\n2. Market-orientated and demand-driven advisories<br \/>\n3. Digitized information<br \/>\n4. Data ownership<br \/>\n5. Bundling<\/p>\n<p>To read more on this, check out the link below. Happy read!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ccafs.cgiar.org\/blog\/agricultural-advisory-services-global-scale#.WyJWIUxuJPZ\">https:\/\/ccafs.cgiar.org\/blog\/agricultural-advisory-services-global-scale#.WyJWIUxuJPZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a really interesting article to read on the CCAFS blog. Bruce Campbell (CCAFS), Philip Thornton (CCAFS), Svend Christensen (University of Copenhagen), Ishmael Sunga (SACAU), and Dawit Solomon (CCAFS) share their thoughts on how agricultural advisory services at global scale can be instrumental in achieving the SDGs. The article lists five key issues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/2018\/06\/14\/are-we-serious-about-meeting-the-sustainable-development-goals\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Are we serious about meeting the Sustainable Development Goals?\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-222","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\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}