{"id":15257,"date":"2015-05-29T10:38:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T14:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forum-nexus.com\/?p=15257"},"modified":"2015-05-29T14:20:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T18:20:19","slug":"visiting-fao-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum-nexus.com\/blog\/visiting-fao-united-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting FAO of the United Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professional visits with Forum-Nexus help students gain a real-world perspective of international organizations operating on a global scale. As an individual who has received over five years of experience in applying theoretical applications to real world situations, I found the professional visits realistic and educational. Specifically, the visits to the United Nations and partnering organizations were the most enlightening for me. I also gained a deep insight from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.<\/p>\n

As a Ph.D. student, I have spent sufficient time in deciding a specific field to become an expert in. Through my journey of higher education, I have established a passion for policy-making in the government sector. As an official candidate on the 2014 general election ballot for the state of Ohio Representative of District 10, I naturally found curiosity in the United Nations. The FAO grasped my attention in relevance to one of my campaign platforms \u2013 which focuses on decreasing Cleveland\u2019s hunger percentage, poverty level (32% of the population is below the poverty line), and food insecurity (of the 32%, elderly and families make up 79% of those who are seeking assistance with securing food) (U.S. Conference of Mayors 2013 Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness).<\/p>\n

During my time at FAO, I was able to add another organization to my archive of resources in helping to achieve future goals of reducing hunger and food insecurities in Ohio. The FAO has access to a multitude of databases and resources that can provide insight and additional knowledge on plausible strategies, and policy-making ideas to assist in the successful fulfillment of those strategies. The presenter at FAO, Allison Smalls, provided realistic challenges to tackling hunger; such as dilemmas with quality and the use of technology. \u00a0Meeting the challenges with carrying out the organization\u2019s mission and goals is most beneficial. Challenges provide a realistic view of a real world application, which are usually filled with multiple challenges. Personally, I found great significance in this professional visit. I was able to gain necessary insight on attacking a problem that not only affects my community, but is also a global issue. FAO reminded me that a community\u2019s ability to solve a problem locally can lead to solving a global issue.<\/p>\n

By: Danielle Shepherd, \u00a02014 Forum-Nexus Alumnae<\/p>\n

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Professional visits with Forum-Nexus help students gain a real-world perspective of international organizations operating on a global scale. As an individual who has received over five years of experience in applying theoretical applications to real world situations, I found the professional visits realistic and educational. Specifically, the visits to the United Nations and partnering organizations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":15264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,178,169,179,3,176],"tags":[35,232,181,107,118,196,67,117],"class_list":["post-15257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic","category-academic-and-professional-benefits","category-explore-the-world","category-firms-and-organizations-visited","category-study-abroad","category-the-forum-nexus-experience","tag-europe","tag-fao","tag-featured","tag-forum-nexus","tag-geneva","tag-studyabroad","tag-switzerland","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-nexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-nexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-nexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-nexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-nexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forum-nexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15262,"href":"https:\/\/forum-nexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257\/revisions\/15262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-nexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-nexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-nexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-nexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}