What does poverty look like on a plate? | Huiyi Lin

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🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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TED Fellow and economic policy researcher Huiyi Lin is cocreator of "The Poverty Line," an art project examining poverty through the lens of food. By photographing the daily food choices of people living at the poverty line in 38 countries and territories around the world, Lin shines a light on the problem of poverty in a way no policy report ever could.

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0:19.3	You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:24.8	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:26.7	Today's talk is from our brand new batch of 24 TED Fellows films adapted for podcasts just for our TED Talks Daily listeners.
0:34.7	Ted's fellowship supports a network of global innovators and we're so excited to
0:38.5	share their work with you. Today, we'd like you to meet visual artist and poverty researcher
0:43.2	Hui Lin. Hui found a way to show what poverty looks like in a provocative way that then led to
0:49.4	global responses. She sheds light on how she showed what it means to be poor and the huge
0:54.6	conversation it generated about the way we live and the way we see each other. After we hear
0:59.7	from her, stick around for her conversation with Ted Fellows program director Lily James Olds.
1:04.9	It's all coming up.
1:10.7	Poverty is really linked to so many things in life
1:14.5	because it is not just an economic phenomenon, it's not just a social phenomena.
1:20.8	It's an individual and a family.
1:23.3	It's at the base of really what it means to be human
1:26.9	and how we think about human rights.
1:31.2	My name is Hui Yi Lin.
1:32.5	I'm an artist with Chau and Lynn.
1:34.7	I've been creating a project called The Poverty Line for the past 14 years with my partner, Stefan Chow.
1:41.1	I calculated the per person per day rate of the national poverty line in China.
1:45.7	We then went to the local markets to purchase food items with that amount of money.
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