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Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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Live From UNGA — Day 4 | Food Systems Summit | Security Council meets on climate security (UN Dispatch)

September 23, 2021


UN Dispatch published a summary of Day 4 at the UNFSS. Jemimah Njuki, Director for Africa. Dr. Njuki explains in a UN podcast (begins at 1:43) why this meeting was called and discusses some key outcomes from the Food Systems Summit. The world is NOT on track to meet the SDGs and end global hunger. COVID-19 has made food security worse. We have a lot to do. We know our food systems haven’t functioned in the way they were intended. We need to fix our food systems and no one is left behind.” Njuki discusses the commitments from heads of states to achieve the SDGs; the US government has come to the table with US10B to achieve these goals, etc. 

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