Ms Mantoe Phakati is a development communication specialist and former journalist with experience in working for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Has a deep understanding of communication, development and agriculture after getting exposure to these issues through my experience as a journalist, communication consultant and student of climate change, development and policy. Her consultant jobs and employment is/has been with: Visibility and Communication Consultant, Project Management Unit of the National Agriculture Marketing Board of Eswatini and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Marchmont Communications (United Kingdom); Journalist with the Nation Magazine, Eswatini; Freelance features writer with Inter Press Service, Rome.