Gund Affiliate, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont
Research Fellow/Consultant, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Accra, Ghana
Director, Trade Promotion and Facilitation, Malawi Investment and Trade Center (MITC)
Distinguished Professor and DST‐NRF South African Research Chair in Postharvest Technology; Incoming President, International Commission of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering; Founding President, Pan African Society for Agricultural Engineering; Founding Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Postharvest Technology & Innovation; Co-operating Editor, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Head of Programs, Research, Monitoring and Learning, National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi (NASFAM)
Professor and Director: Center for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development (CAREED), University of the West of Scotland
Dr. Kgosi Letlape discussed some of the many reasons that global efforts to end smoking have stalled on @eNCA. Dr. Kgosi is a member of the International Commission to Reignite the #FightAgainstSmoking. For more about the Commission Report, click here: https://fightagainstsmoking.org/
WATCH | Global efforts to end smoking stall https://bit.ly/3u9NpxZ
In #Pakistan, more than 160,000 people die annually from tobacco-related illness. Lack of cessation aids are intensifying the use of combustible cigarettes in the country. For more on the health & economic consequences of #tobacco in Pakistan click here:
https://www.smokefreeworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Final%20Pakistan%20Economic%20Report_2Sep21.pdf
It is simply unacceptable that global consumption of #cigarettes is the same today as it was 30 years ago. The International Commission was created to consider new solutions for preventing deaths from tobacco use. #FightAgainstSmoking https://www.fightagainstsmoking.org/
As @thegtnf comes to a close, a panel on investment will continue the dialogue on the impact investors have on #tobacco companies. For more on the path ahead, explore the Tobacco Transformation Index: https://tobaccotransformationindex.org/
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