At the World Economic Forum, Tania is the Head of Sustainable Growth and People Agenda which includes a portfolio of initiatives and communities on food, water, clean air and nature, advancing sustainable transitions to healthy, resilient systems through finance, technology, and inclusion. With over 20 years’ experience across Asia, Africa, and the Americas, she has managed global initiatives in food security, sustainable agriculture, climate resilience, and integrated value chains. In her role she is driving strategy of flagship initiatives including the First Movers Coalition for Food to generate $15-20 billion of green procurement through aggregated market demand signals and farmer economics, the $15 million Aquapeneurs initiative in partnership with HCL to mobilize pipelines of innovators problem-solving for water stewardship globally, and the Food Innovation Hubs global initiative harnessing the power of fit for purpose technology in 7 country and regional innovation hub marketplaces, among others.
Safe and clean water is essential for life on Earth, productive societies and resilient economies. Water pollution threatens lakes, rivers and oceans and our soils and groundwater sources...
Embracing regenerative farming globally could help provide a third of the land-based climate action needed by 2030. By scaling regenerative agriculture, the global food system has the pot...
We have a leadership imperative and a responsibility to build resilient and equitable food systems that can nutritiously feed the growing population within planetary boundaries. Farmers a...
In 2022, we faced concurrent crises: food distribution, energy and fertilizer shortages. However, we did not address the challenges in time to avoid food systems failures affecting everyo...
Los sistemas alimentarios están vinculados a muchos problemas mundiales, desde el hambre a la deforestación, pasando por ser el segundo emisor mundial de gases de efecto invernadero, desp...
Food systems are linked to many global challenges – from hunger to deforestation to being the world’s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions after the energy sector. What if w...
Food, agriculture, land and ocean systems are the backbones of society, providing the sustenance that is essential to life. They are also central to the global economy – representing $10 ...
At the beginning of 2021, food has found its way back to the centre of the global agenda. The World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the UN Secretary-General’s Food Sy...
Nguyen Dang Huu, a coffee farmer in Viet Nam, faces daily weather disruptions, low-quality harvests and dropping prices – with little access to information on how to grow his crops more e...
The world has come together to adopt the new UN Sustainable Development Goals – and for the first time in history, we can say we may be the generation to finally end world hunger.
