Inger Andersen is Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
When you live on the edge, you become acutely aware of balance.
As a young woman straight out of university in 1982, I had the privilege of teaching English at a Sudanese girls' high school. After a couple of years, I landed a job supporting the emergency and relief work during the Sudanese drought and associated famine.
Those communities in Sudan knew very well that their two most precious assets were the acacia trees on their lands and the seeds saved
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