Working on climate, environmental sanitation, food processi… - Ruth Oniang'o

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Working on climate, environmental sanitation, food processing, crop growing, food allocation, gender issues – this is all connected, [but] people still operate in silos. I was very happy when the UN came up with the Sustainable Development Goals and goal number 17 was partnerships and collaboration. You have to work together to be able to achieve something tangible.

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About Ruth Oniang'o

Ruth Khasaya Oniang’o (born September 9, 1946) is a Kenyan Professor of Nutrition and a former member of Parliament. She created Rural Outreach Africa (ROA) to empower smallholders to address malnutrition, she oversees her country's nutrition policy, and she is on the board of the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International.

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