Naheda Slayih is a 62-year-old Palestinian-Israeli special needs educator with over 40 years of experience rehabilitating the blind and visually impaired. In 2015, Naheda&nb...
Sireesha Tullimilli is one of thousands of smallholder farmers practicing agroecology in Andhra Pradesh, a South-East Indian state. Agroecology is a type of farming that applies ecologica...
Arizona Muse is a model, sustainability consultant and climate change activist. Her new charity, DIRT, aims to regenerate soil globally in the face of climate change, with a special foc...
Thomas Pesquet, a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and FAO Goodwill Ambassador, advocates for climate action. He promotes awareness of FAO’s science-based work with countries to transform ag...
Lina is a single mother of five who lives in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, in the tumultuous zone of Gudele Block 9. As a resident of an urban area worst affected by years of conflict and instability, Lina h...
Dr Merisia is a household name in the Greater Karamoja Cluster (GKC), an area of land that straddles the borders between South-Western Ethiopia, North-Western Kenya, South-Eastern South Sudan, and North-Eastern Uganda. Hav...
Ghina Mohammad Audi wants to make a difference. She is a motivated student from the Lycée Célestin Freinet in Lebanon. Together with her classmates, FAO, GMC Beats and schools ...
Sam Kass was the personal chef of former President Barack Obama. During his tenure with the Obama family, he also served as the Assistant Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy at the White House.
Graciela González and Zoraida Niño – are teachers at the Colegio Rodrigo de Triana in Patio Bonito, Bogotá who consider urban gardens to be ideal spaces for learning to coexist with an...
Royd Mukonda, a determined young entrepreneur, is making a difference in the aquaculture sector in Kabwe town, Central Province. In addition to upscaling catfish production, Royd engages with women and...
Chef José Andrés is an internationally recognized culinary innovator, author and owner of ThinkFoodGroup. He is also the founder of World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit that nourishes communities and strengthens economies through times of crisis and be...
“With the little means that we have, we just make enough profit to cover our cost,” says Anastasie Obama, who has been running her own business smoking shrimp in Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé for years.&...
Chef Rich Francis is a modern indigenous chef, author, teacher, and food sovereigntist from the Haudenosaunee and Gwich’in First Nations from six Nations Ontario. He is also the founder of the ‘Seventh...
Marta Segovia, a family farmer and community leader is empowering her peers to promote better growth, autonomy and well-being. Through participation in local fairs, Marta has expanded her access to markets,&n...
Elizabeth Siyapi – a fifty-nine-year-old smallholder farmer from Khani Village in Shurugwi, Southern Zimbabwe – is actively preventing food loss and waste in her community and sharing knowl...
Lorenzo Artibani is the co-founder of Orto 2.0, an innovative app for agricultural cooperatives that was founded in Rome in 2017. Run by Lorenzo and three fellow young farmers, this digital platform provides Rome’s urban citizens with access to ...
Bogale Borena, a fifty-year old father of six, recently set up an avocado nursery with the capacity to produce 40 000 grafted seedlings. Now employing 14 young people, Bogale’s nursery is an example of how inclusive agricultural value chains can boost youth empl...
An Assistant professor of horticulture at Zhejiang University, Ye Ming’er has been promoting fruit tree technology for 35 years. His innovative approach has boosted citrus and Yang Mei fruit growth and yield, producing high-quality fruits and increasing farmers’ ...
Irina Vasilyeva, a female farmer from Western Georgia, is a living example of how access to technical knowledge and innovation can empower smallholder farmers to become agents of change.
Entire families in Irina’s ancient village of Vartsikhe, Bagdati municipal...
For the past eight years, Celia Muñoz has worked in La Huerta de A LA PAR, a community-oriented, eco-friendly garden initiative launched by the foundation A LA PAR. Just a few kilometres from the centre of Madrid, La Huerta provides 200 allotments to the public to...
IMAFLORA, a Brazilian NGO, has been supporting supply chains and forest communities since 1995. It brings people and institutions together to create solutions that promote newer, more ethical and inclusive business models that prioritise forest communities and keep the...
