Bibi la Luz is a creative enthusiast merging food, climate and human value. She holds an MA. International Political Economy (University of Warwick, UK). In 2015 she founded “Eat Better Wa’ik”, in her native Guatemala, an organisation dedicated to reducing malnutrition through creative and inclusive education, impacting 10,000 children, youth and adults, working in local communities, up to global policymaking, and reaching a SROI of $1:$12. Bibi has been recognised as a Hero of the Pandemic in Guatemala, within the inaugural 50Next class by the World’s 50 Best Restaurant as Trailblazing Activist, Forbes 100 Powerful Women in Central America, Trust Changemaker by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. She is part of Global Shapers Community (and served as Community Champion for Central America), One Young World, Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative, Climate Reality, Social Gastronomy Movement and many more. Bibi’s path through international organizations, NGOs, journalism, and academia has brought her understanding and commitment towards improving livelihoods worldwide. She recently led the innovation challenges Food Ecosystems in Arid Climates and Smarter Climate Farmers Challenges with the UpLink team at the World Economic Forum.
Farmers are at the heart of the transformation of the world’s food systems, but they - especially smallholder farmers and subsistence farmers - are often under-represented. Many of them l...
Las comunidades y los agricultores están en primera línea de los efectos más graves del cambio climático, que afectan cada vez más a la producción y el consumo de alimentos. La sequía, la...
コミュニティと農家は、気候変動による厳しい影響を先頭に立って受けており、それに伴い食料生産と消費に及ぼす影響もますます大きくなっています。干ばつ、砂漠化の拡大、土地の劣化が進行していると同時に、不安定な降雨、大規模な洪水、強まる暴風雨、急激な気温変化などの発生頻度は高まるばかりです。
Communities and farmers are on the frontline of climate change’s most severe impacts, which are increasingly impacting food production and consumption. Drought, extended desertification, ...
Deserts account for one-fifth of Earth’s land coverage. This fraction of our planet is continuously put at risk by increased and extended droughts, and unstable rainfall. These arid condi...
La seguridad alimentaria y climática son dos elementos cruciales e interrelacionados de la prosperidad mundial. Y ambos se encuentran en crisis.
Food and climate security are two crucial, intertwined elements of global prosperity. And they are both in the throes of crisis.
Your closet. Your desk. Your drawers. Your private spaces never to be seen by guests or colleagues. These are the areas where we accumulate stuff. And they are where each one of us needs ...
