World hunger: Can technology help feed the world?

Technology Untangled

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5.0 • 69 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Ending World Hunger by 2030 is one of the UN’s Key Sustainable Development Goals, announced in 2015. We’re now half way to the final milepost, but estimates still put the number of people in the world who are suffering from hunger and malnutrition at around 811 million, more than 9% of the world's population. So how can tech help? In this episode, we’ll be meeting some of the amazing people at the cutting edge of ending world hunger through the use of technology.

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0:00.0	The way that we're doing it right now doesn't seem to be able to sustain the grown population
0:11.1	that we have on this planet. Ending world hunger. It's been the subject of countless telethons
0:17.9	and charity fundraisers, and rightly so. Estimates put the number of people
0:22.4	in the world who are suffering from hunger and malnutrition at the time of this episode at around
0:27.5	811 million, more than 9% of the world's population. That's a staggering number, and it hasn't
0:35.0	really changed a huge amount in recent years. Over the long term,
0:39.1	patterns are promising. In the year, 2015% of the world was malnourished, but progress has slowed.
0:46.2	In 2015, the UN announced a series of sustainable development goals, or SDGs. One of those,
0:53.0	the first, in fact, was to eradicate world hunger by 2030.
0:57.4	We're halfway to that 2030 mark, and there's a lot of work to do.
1:06.4	But we are living in a time of huge opportunity.
1:10.3	In this episode, we're going to be taking a look
1:12.5	at how technology can help feed the world, from making farming more efficient to giving small-scale
1:19.9	farmers in remote communities the chance to reach out to the world. The challenge is massive,
1:25.3	but we're in a connected age where, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, there's a real drive to connect the world and not leave anyone behind.
1:53.5	Thank you. You're listening to Technology Untangled, a show which looks at the rapid evolution of technology and unravels the way it's changing our world. I'm your host, Michael Bird.
2:02.6	So, first, let's run through a few basic facts.
2:06.6	Small farmers, herders and fishermen, produce about 70% of the global food supply.
2:12.6	Unfortunately, these are the people who are most at risk from adverse weather, conflict,
2:19.0	disease, global warming, water shortages, and the like.
2:22.0	They are also less likely to be connected to the outside world via phone or internet, and
2:26.3	also less likely to be educated to use what technology is available.
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