This recent development came during the 2023 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) in Berlin, Germany. During this programme the Kenyan government promised to be proactive in working towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in order to address food insecurity. The annual global Agriculture Ministers’ Conference whose theme for this year was “Food Systems Transformation: A Worldwide Response to Multiple Crises,” had approximately 64 national representatives from all across the globe. Mithika Linturi, Kenya’s Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary, who was at the forefront of this conversation, noted that Kenya is dedicated to this cause, and is all in…
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The Rondout Valley Central School District Board of Education appointed Gregory Kulp as the District’s new Director of Facilities during a meeting on Dec.15. Kulp, who assumed his new position on Dec. 29, comes to Rondout Valley from Local Union 373 Plumbers & Steamfitters, where he served as a Journeyman Pipefitter. Kulp has seven years of experience at Local Union 373 and has experience with installation and maintenance, blueprints and specifications, hand and power tools, plumbing,constructing, pipefitting, and more. Kulp is a returning Gander, having graduated from Rondout Valley High School in 2010. He holds a Certification of Completion from…
We lost Ursula K. Le Guin five years ago, on January 22, 2018. She was one of the most influential science fiction authors in the history of the English language. She wrote 23 novels (mostly science fiction), alongside sheaves of short stories, poems, children’s books, and essays. She helped pioneer a feminist, radically critical sci-fi. Her novels have been rereleased continually over the past few decades, to near universal acclaim. Her influence is clear on such major writers today as Neil Gaiman and N. K. Jemison, and literary theorists like Darko Suvin. Her work has been taken up by major…
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Director, African Energy Chamber(http://www.EnergyChamber.org) The backlash in recent days about the selection of Sultan Al Jaber, chief executive of the Abu Dhabi NationalOil Company (ADNOC), to serve as president of the next United Nations Climate Conference (COP28) has been quite… dramatic. The decision to have him lead the conference has been described as “a fox watching the henhouse,” asking “arms dealers to lead peace talks,” and “putting the head of a tobacco company in charge of negotiating an anti-smoking treaty.” Tasneem Essop, the executive director of Climate Action Network International, went further, saying,” He cannot preside…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis’ fifth trip to the African continent will highlight gestures of peace and reconciliation, consoling the victims of violence but also emphasizing the importance of each person sowing peace in the family, the neighborhood and the nation. The pope is scheduled to travel to Kinshasa, Congo, Jan. 31-Feb. 3 before making an ecumenical pilgrimage to Juba, South Sudan, Feb. 3-5 with Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury and the Rev. Iain Greenshields, moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. “It is enough, or it should be enough, that the pope is going to support the…
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Calling all South Africans: be sparing with electrical appliances after 4 p.m., think twice about whether you really need to boil so much water for that tea, and don’t even think about switching on your air conditioner after dark.These were among the pleas state power company Eskom’s outgoing chief executive made to long-suffering consumers in Africa’s most industrialised nation on Sunday, as he reassured them recent maintenance work would ease some of the harshest blackouts in living memory.But outgoing CEO Andre De Ruyter also re-affirmed that power cuts would continue for two more years at…
If there had been a University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in the early 2000s when Dr. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto was considering graduate schools, she would have packed her bags for Little Rock.”Absolutely, I definitely would have come here and gotten a master’s (degree),” she says, adding that the school would have attracted her then just as it did in 2021 when she accepted the position as the school’s dean following the retirement of Skip Rutherford, who served in that position for 15 years.Unlike most public policy or public affairs schools, the Clinton School of Public Service’s master’s…
HONG KONG (AP) — As the week-long Lunar New Year holidays in China draw near with promises of feasts and red envelopes stuffed with cash, children have another thing to look forward to –- one extra hour of online games each day.For years, Chinese authorities have sought to control how much time kids can spend playing games online, to fight “internet addiction.” They’ve claimed success in curbing the problem but are taking no chances.In 2019, authorities restricted minors to playing 90 minutes a day on weekdays and banned them from playing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. In 2021, they…
Elisa was born in Santa Barbara, California. In 1931, her father moved their family to Mexico. In 1951, she met and married her husband, Luis Arevalo in Leon, Mexico. Luis and Elisa were married for 44 years until Luis’ death in 1996. They immigrated to San Jose in 1955, with their first three children (Elisa, Maria and Luis) and soon added three more to their family (Luis Ernesto, Patricia and Eduardo).Elisa worked at the Rosicrucian Order in San Jose, as a bilingual secretary for 20 years. She translated for visiting dignitaries from all over the world. Elisa was an excellent…
Distractions are many and attention is low among children of today, writer Sudha Murty said here on Sunday, adding that the parents should keep them away from gadgets and motivate them to read books till they are at least 14.The chairperson of Infosys Foundation was talking to the media on the sidelines of the 16th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival.Murty noted that it was not easy to bring up children in today’s environment, especially after Covid when schools made it mandatory for them to attend online classes.”It will affect their eyes in the long run, attention span has…