"Future improvements in agriculture and food systems will continue to rely on enhanced efficiency – producing more with less – but greater emphasis will be needed on the social and environmental dimensions of sustainability," says a technical reference document titled Transforming Food and Agriculture to Achieve the SDGs published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

The Cerrón Grande reservoir is the largest water body in El Salvador and is home to over fifteen species of fish and a wide variety of submerged and floating flora. Due to its international importance in conserving biological diversity, this wetland received the Ramsar (short for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat) designation in 2005. 

“At a time of rampant misinformation, climate denial, and attacks on human rights, we need education systems that distinguish fact from conspiracy, instill respect for science, and celebrate humanity in all its diversity,” said the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, on 19 September 2022, during the opening of the Transforming Education Summit. The role of institutions of higher education in instilling that respect for science cannot be underestimated.

A group of Brazilian researchers is turning to large-scale data to answer critical questions on global affairs, including at the multilateral level. These initiatives are intended to highlight the utility of such tools to a wide range of stakeholders while promoting the critical work conducted in the institutions of higher education that are part of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) initiative.

The Millennium Campus Network (MCN) and the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) are proud to present the Millennium Fellowship Class of 2022, an ambitious program to help make the Sustainable Development Goals and UNAI principles a reality. The Class of 2022 Millennium Fellows have been selected among a record-breaking 31,397 applicants from over 2,417 campuses across 140 nations.   

For over a decade, Lehigh University, a member institution of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) in the United States, has collaborated with the International Labour Organization (ILO) to create a series of experiential education opportunities for its students, faculty, and staff. However, due to the challenging effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there was a significant shift in how such opportunities can take place. 

Imani Khumalo, a recent graduate of a university in Johannesburg, South Africa, still remembers the shock she felt during a Philosophy class in her second year.

When launching the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech in June 2019, Secretary-General António Guterres said that hate speech “is in itself an attack on tolerance, inclusion, diversity, and the very essence of our human rights norms and principles.

According to the World Bank, more than 1.3 billion people globally rely on small scale livestock production for their livelihoods and nutrition. In Botswana, a landlocked country in southern Africa where cattle production comprises 80 per cent of agricultural gross domestic product, foot and mouth disease (FMD) has negatively impacted the livestock and wildlife sectors since the late 1950s, when beef exports were expanded in the days of colonial rule.

This article, in line with the International Youth Day on 12 August, was written by Sam Vaghar (@samvaghar), Co-Founder and Executive Director of Millennium Campus Network (MCN).  MCN and the United Nations Academic Impact partner to present the Millennium Fellowship annually for university undergraduates advancing the Sustainable Development Goals.