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    Resilience? It's all about the people

    With its inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals, resilience has truly gone mainstream. But how can it be applied in practice across sectors to achieve scale? Devex got the inside track from Luca Alinovi, senior emergency and rehabilitation coordinator at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

    By Virginia Vigliar // 10 November 2015

    In an emergency, the primary response to a crisis is a humanitarian one.

    This is by default a short-term response, when most of the problems are long-term, according to Luca Alinovi, senior emergency and rehabilitation coordinator at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

    But with resilience going mainstream in recent years, the tables have turned and some forward-thinking global development professionals are proposing a wholly new approach to previously intractable problems.

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      Virginia is a freelance journalist and editor based in Barcelona. She has worked in the development sector in Malawi and Kenya and Somalia before returning to Europe, where she gained experience in the United Kingdom, Norway and Spain. She is the managing editor of Words in the Bucket, an online platform discussing human rights, gender, development and environment issues.

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