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How Innovation and Technology Can Fight Global Hunger | Bernhard Kowatsch | TED

Social entrepreneur Bernhard Kowatsch shares real-life examples of how a business approach focused on accelerating tech (like a blockchain-supported way to bring food to refugees or a machine that fortifies flour at small mills in Africa) can help make an impact on big, seemingly intractable problems. “Innovation and technology can create so much good in…

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Social entrepreneur Bernhard Kowatsch shares real-life examples of how a business approach focused on accelerating tech (like a blockchain-supported way to bring food to refugees or a machine that fortifies flour at small mills in Africa) can help make an impact on big, seemingly intractable problems. “Innovation and technology can create so much good in the world, and together we can solve the world’s biggest challenges,” he says.

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  1. تعلم اللغة English

    June 29, 2022 at 11:04 am

    First 🥇

  2. Bill Dickson

    June 29, 2022 at 11:22 am

    There is no point!
    All the best green technology can be destroyed over-night by war.
    Hunger – We don’t need more people to eat! We need more people to eat the food they buy and to stop throwing it away.
    We need to have people pick the food and get it to markets so it doesn’t rot on the trees or fields.

  3. Toni

    June 29, 2022 at 11:22 am

    Corn flakes? Why not an egg? An egg doesn’t need to fortified it’s a perfect food and a few chickens could just keep laying them all the time. You don’t have to keep delivering boxes of corn flakes that just makes children hungrier because they’re sugar, a complete waste of money.

    • WideEyed Smiles

      June 29, 2022 at 11:38 am

      Eggs aren’t shelf stable, they’re focusing on shelf stable foods to extend their reach. They should do the same thing with small/starting farmer support so local food markets can stabilize and grow

    • Toni

      June 29, 2022 at 11:47 am

      @WideEyed Smiles Eggs have been around a lot longer than corn flakes.

    • WideEyed Smiles

      June 30, 2022 at 12:57 pm

      @Toni ‘shelf stable’ is the key word here. Try powdered eggs. 5-10 years shelf life vs shelf stable, means it doesn’t go bad while in transit, means no wasted food.

  4. Eyekosaeder

    June 29, 2022 at 11:29 am

    We don’t need new technologies to fight global hunger. We would be perfectly capable of feeding every human on the planet with our current technologies. The problem is the egoism and hunger for money and power of those who could actually achieve large scale change.

    • k_goora

      June 29, 2022 at 11:55 am

      And *that* is why those who really want to make a difference rely on technology.

    • Lloyd

      June 30, 2022 at 2:47 am

      Thank you. We have the technology, it’s just that we think short term, and there is no money to be made feeding others – – short term.

    • aune

      June 30, 2022 at 3:30 am

      Even if we can feed everyone, it won’t be enough for us in the future.

  5. Get Your Life Better

    June 29, 2022 at 11:30 am

    Wars, natural disasters, poverty, and climate change make it difficult to eliminate global hunger and deliver assistance to those in need. Hundreds of millions of people suffer from hunger and malnutrition despite the world having enough food to feed everyone. But advanced technologies are starting to make a real difference. They enable farmers to produce more food and provide aid organizations with the tools necessary to more efficiently help vulnerable groups. Ending world hunger remains a challenging task, but science and technology can deliver life-changing solutions and also make our world a better place for all of us.

    • Tevin Johns

      June 29, 2022 at 11:37 am

      We don’t need farming tools to speed anything up. Everything is fine the way it is, because there is enough to feed everyone. In fact technology does not need to deliver on that, food does it, and then you give it to those in need. I don’t see the need for any sophisticated technology to complete that tasks. We need technology that is going to assist with this climate change getting worse each year. Its quite apparent technology isn’t doing anything to help with this.

  6. Nemesis Brzeczyszczykiewicz

    June 29, 2022 at 11:41 am

    There is like 5 ladies masked up in the audience clapping. This money does not provide food for hungry people. Synthetic meat coming soon.

  7. MD Monna

    June 29, 2022 at 11:57 am

    Aiti ki bola

  8. Nathalie Lazo

    June 29, 2022 at 12:17 pm

    Whoever is reading this, I pray that whatever you’re growing through gets better and whatever you’re battling with makes your situation better as you’re continuing to be a better person each day. I have faith that you’ll turn out great as your circumstances will change. Have a fantastic day! You got this! 🤗💪🏼❤️

  9. Winston O'Boogie

    June 29, 2022 at 12:32 pm

    TED doesn’t read history. There are no happy endings. Ever.

  10. listen2meokidoki

    June 29, 2022 at 12:40 pm

    BLAH BLAH BLAH.
    Sorry, but just feeding people and sustaining THE POPULATION is like spinning thread blind
    folded. The more people the more multiculturalism the more chaos the more war the more disease the lower the IQ the more mutations the more desperation the more hate the more of all things negative and destructive. And the more Nature and biodiversity suffers. The more pollution, the more DEVELOPMENT. The more planning the more solutions to problems the more problems.

  11. ram nath

    June 29, 2022 at 12:41 pm

    “Never depend on a single income make investment to create a second source”.

    “Never test the depth of a river with both feet”.

    ” Don’t put all eggs in one basket”

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      June 29, 2022 at 12:47 pm

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      June 29, 2022 at 1:09 pm

      Im also way upto the profits, Profits are secured and over a good return on investment after two weeks of trading with Sir Dave, I’m also a proud beneficiary of him too actually started off with some spare two thousand dollars.

    • Kevin lee

      June 29, 2022 at 1:28 pm

      The best way to make profit in the market is to invest in it and don’t hold any coin, invest with a pro trader instead.

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    June 29, 2022 at 12:41 pm

    “Never depend on a single income make investment to create a second source”.

    “Never test the depth of a river with both feet”.

    ” Don’t put all eggs in one basket”

    • ±¹7²⁰5⁴¹9⁷⁶⁹👈whatsapp me for more

      June 29, 2022 at 1:09 pm

      Im also way upto the profits, Profits are secured and over a good return on investment after two weeks of trading with Sir Dave, I’m also a proud beneficiary of him too actually started off with some spare two thousand dollars.

  13. listen2meokidoki

    June 29, 2022 at 12:50 pm

    TED has run out of Subjects to talk about.

    • milo avram

      June 29, 2022 at 2:02 pm

      i got an important subject,

      what’s the connection between us, being candle angels, (fire monkeys sounds too rough),
      and mental health ?,

  14. Hussain production

    June 29, 2022 at 2:13 pm

    It is amazing to help others.Helping others is really a great feeling.

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  16. Sankar Rey

    June 29, 2022 at 2:59 pm

    Good. From Mturk

  17. Harry vibes

    June 29, 2022 at 3:45 pm

    With Technology and Innovation can we stop world hunger and global warming. Just imagine what it would be like 50 years from now, maybe these world problems might end very soon. But if they do then we should all be very thankful on what technology and Innovation has done to our world. Thank you for sharing this video with us, always brightens up our day whenever we learn something new.

  18. Anton Plotnikov

    June 29, 2022 at 4:14 pm

    What a naive nonsence. To cope with hunger, developing countries need agricultural machines, agricultural technologies, fertilizers, fuel, irrigation systems, food manufacturing technologies, appropriate education for farmers and local businessmen, fair lawsuit, and tons of money and investments

    • ReemcorneronEbay

      June 29, 2022 at 9:14 pm

      Everybody starts somewhere 🙂

  19. Shrez subs

    June 29, 2022 at 6:12 pm

    We could stop world hunger now if a lot of privileged people value food

  20. Thankful Lally

    June 29, 2022 at 7:54 pm

    Great work. God bless.

  21. MFJoneser

    June 30, 2022 at 1:16 am

    We’ve reached an era where philanthropy is seen as a business opportunity. This contradiction in terms, in ideas, is extremely dangerous. Self-betterment becomes disguised in “helping others.”

    The evolution of disengenuity

  22. Dave Arbogast

    June 30, 2022 at 3:13 am

    You had me until you showed the entire audience wearing black face diapers.

  23. Franziska Fuhry

    June 30, 2022 at 7:47 am

    I thought this talk would be about innovative systems to combat the root causes of hunger (monocultures, draughts, etc) but instead its only about infrastructure to efficiently distribute donations. That doesn’t solve any problem but only postpone them as long as people are willing to donate.
    Don’t get me wrong – social entrepreneurship is admirable but can only ever be an interim solution

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    June 30, 2022 at 11:13 am

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    June 30, 2022 at 7:54 pm

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    • Rose Allen

      June 30, 2022 at 7:56 pm

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    • Paul Jack Vasilyev

      June 30, 2022 at 7:57 pm

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    • Rose Allen

      June 30, 2022 at 7:58 pm

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    • Rose Allen

      June 30, 2022 at 7:58 pm

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    • Paul Jack Vasilyev

      June 30, 2022 at 7:58 pm

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  26. 1080 00

    July 1, 2022 at 8:06 am

    BullChit!

  27. Invox

    July 1, 2022 at 9:41 am

    Solving the world problems with an App… Haven’t we already tried that, like evry time?

  28. Alwyn Nito

    July 1, 2022 at 11:44 am

    they should make condoms and etc cheaper, rich or poor idiots going around thinking they have to, for fun/cheating, ego (bloodline/superiority bull crap) or just because they think they failed/dislike their first kid/kids, some places are so weird like alot of people nearly look the same (I’m not racist, I’m mixed) or share the same surname over 15-100+ families

  29. windmillman

    July 2, 2022 at 2:59 am

    That 53B sent to Ukraine could end world hunger…just saying

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  30. Francesco S

    July 5, 2022 at 10:46 pm

    Non voglio essere nessuno e non mi interessa anche perché può essere pericoloso dare potere ad un unica persona

  31. Francesco S

    July 5, 2022 at 10:47 pm

    Devo cercare di essere stupido sarebbe meglio

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