OPEC Fund Quarterly - 2023 Q2

CONTENTS 2/2023

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AGRICULTURE 4.0

How can new technology solve the global hunger crisis? A Special Feature

23-25  New tech and old traditions: The fear over “Frankenfood” 26-29  Interview Sarada Krishnan, Crop Trust: “Ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds” 30-32  Interview Melissa Siegel, UNU: The asymmetry of migration 33-35  Interview Leni Kinzli, WFP: “Reaching people is half the struggle” 36-37  Back to basics: Rediscovering traditional farming for climate resilience 38-41  Guest contribution by Dina Saleh, IFAD: “A brighter future depends on getting

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Editorial: New agriculture, new promise, new hope

26-29 Conserving genetic diversity

6-11 How to feed 10 billion people 12-15 System innovation: Root and branch revolutions? 16-19  Climate change & agriculture: “A double bind for food systems” 20-22 Interview Gerd Müller, UNIDO:

“Building bridges to facilitate technology, knowledge and investment transfer”

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20-22 Global food security innovation

30-32 The asymmetry of migration

our crisis response right today”

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IN OTHER SECTIONS...

In the Field 42-43 The Shire Valley Transformation Program in Malawi

Development News 44-49

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 The OPEC Fund wins Arab Financial Institutions’ Development Award

New OPEC Fund projects in Bangladesh, Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Paraguay, Uzbekistan Spotlight 50-53 OPEC Fund Development Forum 2023 Events 54-61 54-55  The OPEC Fund at the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings

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 SEforALL and UNCDF workshop  Asian Development Bank Annual Meeting

59  Islamic Development Bank Annual Meeting 60-61  Inter-American Development Bank Annual Meeting OPEC Fund 62 Vienna City Marathon marks its 40th anniversary

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