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The Tesla founder has offered to pay to end world hunger if the UN explains how it would spend his money. Responding to the challenge, the UN's World Food Programme has produced a detailed plan to stave off global famine. The UN’s $6.6 billion proposal could help 42 million vulnerable people survive 2022.
Here are five steps towards achieving Zero Hunger: Put those furthest behind first: To realize the full potential of our globalized economy, national governments must expand social protection schemes for the most vulnerable. Providing this opportunity for equitable economic growth will raise the purchasing power of the poorest 2 billion people ...
The World Economic Forum and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization have published a roadmap to help countries accelerate inclusive food systems innovation. There is a $15.2 billion funding gap for food system innovation that could support ending hunger, keeping emissions within 2°C and reducing water use by 10%.
The world's political landscape in 2030 will look considerably different to the present one. Nation states will remain the central players. There will be no single hegemonic force but instead a handful of countries – the U.S., Russia, China, Germany, India and Japan chief among them – exhibiting semi-imperial tendencies.
For example, a mandate to build new plastic products using at least 30% recycled plastic would cut plastic pollution by 29%. Requiring in the UN Plastics Treaty that all new plastic products include a minimum of 30% recycled plastic would alone reduce the amount of plastic pollution generated every year by approximately 29% in 2050.
Sentiment is turning towards deglobalisation. The rise of globalisation was never entirely smooth or assured. The reduction of global trade that was bookended by the two world wars was followed by 60 years of increased globalisation. This included the hyper-globalisation period from 1990 to 2008. However, the 2008 financial crisis, trade wars ...
Steven Grattan. Deforestation increased by 4% in 2022, meaning the world is 21% off track to end deforestation by 2030. Efforts to preserve old-growth tropical forests are 33% off track, with 4.1 million hectares lost in 2022. WWF calls for tackling the systemic threats to forests, deliver the funding needed to protect and restore them, and ...
The IoT can potentially: - Improve the yield from harvesting and storage. Up to 30 to 40% of production can be lost before food even reaches the market, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates. This is especially a problem in the developing world.
Arathi Sethumadhavan. Modern slavery is rife in the developed world contrary to popular belief. We need cross-border collaboration among actors in law enforcement, civil society, academia and the private sector to stop the phenomenon. Data- and knowledge-sharing are the most powerful tools we have to address it, but they have their challenges.
Here are 4 ways AI is helping to feed the hungry while saving the planet: 1. Some agricultural AI startups are focused on the field, training powerful algorithms on vast new datasets to improve the efficiency and performance of traditional farms. Israel-based Prospera collects some 50 million data points each day from 4,700 fields.