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  • Gerritje "Gerda" Verburg (born 19 August

    • One of the pleasures of ultra-running is the diversity of the community – people from all backgrounds, geographies, professions - each with their own special gifts. Yet, there is a thread that binds this diversity together – remarkableness. Does the sport foster and develop remarkable people? Or, is being remarkable the qualifier to engage in a sport that requites a high investment of time, commitment and perseverance. Regardless of the reason, I get great pleasure from the many amazing people that running brings into my life. One of the remarkable people I have met in Rome is Gerda Verburg, the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP) andInternational Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), three UN agencies based in Rome with expertise in agriculture, food assistance and rural development.

    In her role as Ambassador, Gerda participates in the governance of these organizations and represents the interests of the Dutch government. Indirectly – she is my boss! 



    Prior to this appointment, she was Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in the Netherlands. Previous, she was a member of parliament for the Christian Democrats. Before entering politics, Gerda was both an entrepreneur and a trade union representative. Gerda’s athletic interests are as diverse as her professional accomplishments. She is an equestrian, cyclist, skater and runner. Prior to my first meeting with the Ambassador I was “briefed” that she was an avid cyclist and rode her bike to work (how cool and how Dutch). In an effort to impress her during our first meeting I decided to ride my bike to her office. The morning of the meeting I had a flat and was late to the meeting due to the time it took to for me to repair the flat (how lame and how American). It was after that first meeting that I learned that her real athletic talent is running and that she

    The global food and nutrition crisis – a multi-system failure driven by the climate crisis, fragile food systems, high food prices, a crippled COVID-19 recovery, debt distress and the war in Ukraine – follows us into 2023. One of its grave impacts is the rising levels of child malnutrition that is costing lives and puts at risk the future health and livelihoods of the children who survive and the potential of their communities and nations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The maker and marker of development, good nutrition is vital for physical growth and cognitive development in early life that gives rise to healthy and productive members of society. Since December 2022, an estimated two million children in the Horn of Africa are in urgent need of treatment for acute malnutrition.

    In the final weeks of her tenure as Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Gerda Verburg appeals for a nutrition-sensitive response to the global food and nutrition crisis, shares her expectations at COP28 and opportunities to position nutrition in 2023. Country-based solutions, that are locally owned and globally supported, have a critical role to play in tackling this polycrisis.

    Photo credit: Rabin Chakrabarti

    Positioning nutrition as a “no-regrets” investment

    “The most important way to capture attention for nutrition is to tell the story of nutrition – what good nutrition means to people and how it maintains or regains their dignity and prosperity,” says Gerda. The world is not built to have one part of the world always dependent on another. By nature, people want to deal with their own solutions, to take care of their family and send their children to school.

    Nutrition is a “strange animal” with many angles – food systems, health, water and hygiene, social protection – that make it impossible to focus solely on nutrition. To respond accordingly, the 65 countries that make up

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