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Nature Podcast

Grand Challenges: Food security

Nature Podcast

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Science, Technology, News

4.5893 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Millions around the world are chronically hungry. Three experts on agriculture discuss how to help people grow enough food, in a world of evolving technology, global markets and a changing climate. This is episode 3 of 4 in the Grand Challenges podcast series.

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

Yes! I can't. I just can't believe it.

0:08.2

Marks found out his 11.4 million pounds on Lotto.

0:12.2

This is just... I don't...

0:14.5

You know what? I've got tears in my eyes.

0:19.9

Yep, that's 11.4 million.

0:22.8

Lotto, will you be the next Christmas millionaire?

0:26.2

The National Lottery. Rules and procedures apply.

0:28.5

Players must be 18 or over.

0:32.3

Welcome to Grand Challenges from Nature.

0:35.2

Grand Challenges is our Roundtable series

0:37.4

in which a panel of experts take on the biggest challenges facing society and ask what scientists, governments, charities, even you and I should be doing to try and solve them.

0:47.6

I'm Kerry Smith and in this episode, Food Security.

0:52.1

This is the sound of around 2,000 protesters in the northern Egyptian city of Mahala,

0:57.8

recorded by Al Jazeera News.

0:59.8

The video shows them throwing bricks and firecrackers at riot police.

1:04.2

It's April 2008.

1:06.0

The price of food has been rising for months, and wages are stagnant.

1:09.8

People can't afford to feed themselves.

1:12.7

We have to express our frustration. The prices of all foodstuffs have been escalating. Rice,

1:19.0

cereals, meat, everything. People can't even afford feeding themselves anymore. In late 2007,

1:26.0

drought in grain-producing countries coincided with a rise in the cost of fertilizers

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