Grand Challenges: Food security
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You might want to step back from your speaker or remove your headphones. |
| 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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