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Dublin City, Ireland
Joined February 2012
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.@Economy_NI has published a research report which aims to facilitate a broader understanding of Northern Ireland’s Food Supply Chain/Safety and Agri-Tech capability, and future windows of opportunity.
To view the report visit:
economy-ni.gov.uk/publicatio…
ALT Blue slide with the DfE logo in white in the bottom right hand corner. Slide contains the following text in white lettering - Research Report, KPMG DfE Agri-Tech Report published.
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What are the best ways to store energy (or, more specifically, electricity)?
A running thread on electricity storage technologies that could help us get to a 100% renewable grid 🧵
#energytwitter
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Are you interested in the future of Irish #horticulture?
🌱We are hosting a 30-minute overview on KPMG's report Opportunities for the Irish horticulture sector with @KPMG and Minister @pippa_hackett on Wednesday, July 13 at 10am.
✍️Sign up for free now: attendee.gotowebinar.com/reg…
ALT Are you interested in the future of Irish #horticulture? 🌱We are hosting a 30-minute overview on KPMG's report Opportunities for the Irish horticulture sector with @KPMG and Minister @pippa_hackett on Wednesday, July 13 at 10am. ✍️Sign up for free now: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7820468191755066639
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Minister @McConalogue has delivered Ireland’s national statement at the Pre-Summit of the @UN @FoodSystems Summit in @FAO in Rome saying he believes sustainable food systems are crucial to the achievement of the #SDGs by 2030
#foodsystems 🥘🌍
#UNFSS2021
📍gov.ie/en/press-release/27f9…
ALT https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/27f97-minister-mcconalogue-delivers-irelands-national-statement-in-rome-at-the-un-food-systems-pre-summit/
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Chart of the week: South Africa’s economy contracted by 7% in 2020. This represents the worst annual economic decline since 1920, which reported a contraction of 12%.
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With about two weeks to go before the February budget, this infographic summarises South Africa’s fiscal dilemma.
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Some thoughts for the new year, in conversation with @dansenor.
NEW EPISODE: How will history judge 2020 — the year of the pandemic, and what are history’s lessons for what might happen in 2021? Historian & bestselling author @nfergus joins me for a look back and look ahead on our Post Corona podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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We've arrived in 2021, but what happens from here? This week for our Digest we set our algorithm on the task of finding interesting articles that touched on predications about the year ahead.
Check out the results here.
deepnews.ai/placing-bets-on-…
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“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.”
— Warren Buffett
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In the latest ISS, today @KouassiYeboua and @RequierWait write those technical barriers to trade, such as corruption and cumbersome custom systems must be removed. Read more here: issafrica.org/iss-today/free…
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1 Jan 2021 marks the start of #AfCFTA, #Africa's new free trade bloc, but transitting goods through countries not part of the deal will create inefficiencies & could be a drag, @issafrica's @RequierWait on this week's @Africa__Calling #podcast 📻 rfi.my/6vlY
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Africa, data and the yawning crocodile – a journey | ZIF TECHPOPS tech-blog.zif-berlin.org/afr…
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Indeed. Without a manufacturing revolution Africa will not start t close the gap with rest of world
Africa’s experience with industrialisation has been disappointing. ISS Today on how AfCFTA can change that. ow.ly/dUTj50CFspV
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Africa’s experience with industrialisation has been disappointing. ISS Today on how AfCFTA can change that. ow.ly/dUTj50CFspV
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Good read
How ISS worked to shape a mutually beneficial Africa–EU strategy that delivers the best outcomes for Africa ow.ly/Nvti50CrND2
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We are hiring... In search of a researcher for our futures work. See issafrica.org/about-us/caree…
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Why does the #economy appear to be recovering while the #COVID epidemic worsens? New piece from @HarvardBiz on why the recovery is faster than expected by Philipp Carlsson Szelzak, Paul Swartz and @MartinKReeves of @BCGhenderson
hbr.org/2020/11/why-the-glob…
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Tunisia needs a food security policy that doesn’t undermine the productivity of its agricultural sector. issafrica.org/iss-today/tuni… @JakkieCilliers @Nyanam
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Insider control of Tunisia’s economic system excludes a huge portion of its well-educated population. issafrica.org/iss-today/tuni… @JakkieCilliers @Nyanam
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The minister granted this deviation from the IRP electricity plan on 1 FEBRUARY 2020 so that NERSA can licence a wider category of generators but NERSA only announces this on 30 OCTOBER 2020!
Regulators need to step up or step back.
Much better to simply exempt licences for <50MW
