Every Life Has Equal Value, Part 2: Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann
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Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2015
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming. |
| 0:02.3 | Hiya. |
| 0:02.9 | So, Benny has really blossomed this term. |
| 0:05.6 | You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay. |
| 0:09.6 | Oh, that's not quite what I meant. |
| 0:11.1 | It's free to sell on there. |
| 0:12.3 | Free to sell? |
| 0:13.4 | Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket. |
| 0:16.8 | You sold my guitar? |
| 0:19.9 | Shall we talk about Benny? |
| 0:22.1 | When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay. |
| 0:26.7 | Things people love. |
| 0:28.0 | T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles. |
| 0:34.3 | Hi, Steve Murski here, and welcome back for part two of Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Mariettee Christina, talking with Gates Foundation CEO Susan Desmond Hellman. |
| 0:45.5 | You mentioned farming in Africa, and that's something I wanted to ask you about, and I know one of the things the letter talks about is making Africa, helping Africa to be able to feed |
| 0:55.1 | itself. Can you tell us a little more about that? Yes, the ambitions, again, by 2030 are to |
| 1:01.6 | improve productivity so that Africa would be in a position to feed itself. And the letter cites just |
| 1:08.3 | one figure with maize, with corn, that there's five times the productivity |
| 1:13.3 | in the U.S. than your average African farmer, seven out of ten people make a living in Africa |
| 1:19.6 | farming. So this really, really matters in Africa. And it starts with feeding your family, |
| 1:24.7 | obviously, but could go to making a living, making some money. |
| 1:29.9 | So we focused on, and the foundations had a lot of investments and involvement in agriculture and farming, |
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