Food For Thought – Week Two


Hugh Bergin, Development education, Self Help Africa – Ireland & the UN’s sustainable development goals


Welcome back to Food for Thought: How to Feed the World in the 21st Century. Great to have you join us again.

If you’ve recently joined the course, or haven’t had a chance to watch week 1 with Maggie Ngetha yet, you can catch up here at any time.

Onto this week, we’ve Hugh Bergin, from SHA’s Development Education programme in Ireland. Hugh will take us through the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, Ireland’s role in the creation of the Goals, and how they inform our work at Self Help Africa. Watch Hugh’s presentation below, and scroll down for links to further resources and Food for Thought!

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Learn more about the Sustainable Development Goals, on the Self Help Africa site.

Learn more about the Sustainable Development Goals, on the UN site.

For more in-depth information on Ireland’s international development policy, and efforts to achieve the SDGs, here’s Irish Aid’s ‘A Better World’.