The future of the food ecosystem -- and the power of your plate | Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli

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🗓️ 14 May 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Many people across the world don't have access to healthy food -- while in other places tons of food go to waste. Social entrepreneur Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli thinks we can take bold steps to fix this problem. She lays out what it would take to build a more equitable, sustainable food system that nourishes all people and asks us to widen our perspectives before eating our next meal.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:07.1	When it comes to food, many in the world struggle with scarcity, the lack of nutritious
0:11.4	options for healthy living.
0:13.8	Others are so privileged with abundance that tons and tons of food goes to waste.
0:18.4	In our talk from Ted Women 2021, social entrepreneur Anditi O'Conco and Winelli asks us to widen
0:24.9	our perspectives before we consume our next meals to better understand what a sustainable food
0:30.6	ecosystem could look like for the world and for generations to come.
0:38.2	Support for Ted Talks Daily comes from Airbnb.
0:42.2	When you're staying at an Airbnb, you might be like me wondering, could my place be an
0:46.8	Airbnb and if it could, what could it earn?
0:50.5	I think about this all the time.
0:52.3	What's up, whose extra room in London was storing furniture until his mom had the idea
0:56.5	to start Airbnb and being it?
0:58.7	Now that extra room helps pay the mortgage.
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1:10.8	My name, Inditi, means patience in Ibu.
1:15.0	But I'm probably one of the most impatient people you've ever met.
1:19.0	I was in such a rush to enter the world that I was born in the parking lot of the University
1:24.1	of Nigeria teaching hospital, true story.
1:28.5	Agriculture was my favorite subjects in school.
1:31.8	My mom remembers me squealing for joy when I ran home from school and saw green beans
1:38.4	ready for harvesting.
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