Guest Commentary — Let Communities take the reins on building resilience

By Ed Keturakis, Vice President of Program Development, and Simone Schenkel, Program Coordinator, CNFA

This article was originally published on The Chicago Council on Global Affairs website on June 20, 2017 as part of Farming First’s #SDG2countdown campaign.

“In 2015, UN member countries adopted a Sustainable Development Agenda titled “17 Goals to Transform Our World to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all.

And that, of course, is a tall order. Ours is a world of moving targets, a dynamic and rapidly changing environment in which technology, population growth, urbanization, and climate change are fast altering the long-established order of things.”

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