Can nanoparticles help fight hunger? | Christy L. Haynes

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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A game-changing solution to the global food crisis could come from something so tiny you can't see it with the naked eye. Nanomaterials chemist Christy Haynes describes her team's work designing nanoparticles that could protect plants from disease and crop loss, helping farmers reap abundant harvests and grow food that will make its way to markets and dinner tables.

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0:13.0	A potentially game-changing solution to the global food crisis could come in something so tiny
0:17.9	you can't see it with your naked eye.
0:20.1	In her 2022 talk from TEDX Minneapolis,
0:23.0	chemist Christy Haynes tells us how nanoparticles
0:26.2	can save agriculture from huge losses
0:28.8	due to disease and help fight hunger around the world.
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1:21.8	Imagine you're a farmer, and you've planted enough crops to feed your family for the coming year.
1:27.0	The weather is surprisingly good at the beginning of the growing season, but after those seeds are in the ground and the stalks start to peak up from the soil,
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