Read a personal account from Dr Zenebe Uraguchi, who is now the Head of the HAFL Hugo P. Cecchini Institute for International Cooperation and Development at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Zollikofen. He was previously with Helvetas for 13 years.
Helvetas welcomes the historic agreement on biodiversity and will closely monitor its implementation. As strong proponents of agroecology – entailing the minimization of agro-chemical use - they nevertheless believe that the demand to halve the use of hazardous chemicals by 2030 is insufficient.