The Belgian also gave insight into the challenges that crop up over the international break as his side get ready to return to domestic action.

In many countries, undernutrition and overnutrition coexist as diets undergo radical changes and processed products often supplant traditional foods. With the trends of overweight and obesity becoming as concerning as hunger, nutritious plants and not just caloric ones, need to be incorporated in our food basket. But new demands are also coming from other quarters, such as chefs who are keen to explore the tastes and textures of traditional, and often more sustainable, grains. For example, Sierra Leonean chef, Fatmata Binta, has made it a point in her cooking to highlight fonio millets, which require less water and are very nutritious.As well as eating more vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds because of nutrition concerns, there is a trend towards consuming more plant-based proteins, like pulses. With the climate crisis affecting global precipitation patterns and temperatures, certain varieties of crops are no longer growing well in places where they once thrived. For example, just a few years ago, perhaps not many people would have predicted that maize would become difficult to grow in some parts of Africa. Yet, farmers in these areas are now searching for other crops, like millets, that are more suitable to the reduced rainfall. It has been a really interesting first four weeks. I gave several challenges to the team and everyone has done really well. There were some challenges along the way." Ahead of the trip to Aberdeen on Sunday, Clement dismissed the suggestion that their hosts raise their game more when they face Rangers.

Changing tastes and trends are also spurring demand for new crop varieties from farmers seeking to improve their livelihoods, whether it’s by growing quinoa or by cultivating pigeon peas. I have been satisfied about the level in the training, in the focus of concentration and the dedication. But I also know that the first weeks with a new manager is almost a honeymoon.

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As the only binding international agreement dedicated to safeguarding, conserving and exchanging the genetic diversity of the plants that we farm and eat around the world, the International Treaty has an increasingly important role in our interdependent and changing world. The International Treaty’s goal is to ensure that plant genetic resources are accessible by everyone, especially farmers in developing countries, so that we can all benefit from a diversity of crops that can meet our nutritional needs. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 dominated last year like no other news—and for good reason. The conflict is the largest land war in Europe since World War II, it has upended the global economy, and has forced nearly 8 million Ukrainians to flee their country. Climate change is only adding to the interdependence, but countries have always been reliant on one another for crops that originated elsewhere. For example, coffee varieties from Africa have travelled all over the world. While, in terms of potatoes, South America still has more varieties to offer than any other region.