This is the
journey 2050 self-guided experience you are on.
Lesson seven on Innovation in Technology.
For step two of this lesson,
you're going to pause this video and start watching the TEDx talk.
That's called a global food crisis.
Maybe less than a decade away.
Note that you're only going to watch the first two minutes and 29 seconds
of this particular TEDx talk, and then you're going to consider
a statement that Sara makes in this TEDx talk in response to it on your handout.
After you're done with step two, move right on to step three
and that is to watch the journey 2050 Technology
and Innovation video and then answer the three questions.
So with those instructions, pause this video until you
finish step three on your handout.
You should have
just finished the Technology and Innovation video.
And hopefully you have also answered the three questions.
But just to,
reiterate this reflection just a little bit,
make sure that you take time
to think about which innovation you think is most impactful
and what some of the pros and cons of these new technologies
could be in relation to our sustainability.
For step four of the lesson, I want to discuss
just a little bit to make sure you understand the difference
between a developing country and a developed country.
Developed countries are industrialized.
They have high standards of living.
They have strong economic growth.
Developing countries are typically agrarian,
meaning that they're not industrialized.
They're more centered around agriculture with more people
participating in agriculture.
They also have lower
standards of living, and they quite often have a weak economy with slow
or even nonexistent growth.
So make sure that you keep these in mind,
as we move on to step four.
For step
four of the lesson, you're going to pause this video
and go back to the Ted talk that you started in step two,
how you're going to finish, watching the rest of the Ted talk
and answer the questions on your handout.
We're now on step five of your handout.
And what I want to do in this step is really try to pull
a lot of things together that we've learned
throughout the entire journey 2050 program.
We're coming to the end. We're almost there.
I want to ask you a question.
How do consumers like yourself influence what producers grow?
Take a minute to just
think about that and think about you yourself as a consumer.
How do you influence what producers grow?
If you think back to lesson
four on economies, we talked about the law of supply and demand,
and we discussed how when there is a high demand,
that the price prices go up and more things are produced.
When there's low demand, prices go down and less of
that will eventually be produced.
So you as a consumer have the ability to influence
what producers or farmers?
Same thing.
What producers grow and how they grow it.
So your choices will impact overall sustainability
throughout your life.
In summary, I want to talk about
three ways we can expand our capacity to produce food.
The first is
by developing and implementing new technologies.
We talked about best management practices throughout the journey 2050 program.
Those best management practices are going to change throughout your life
as new things are discovered, as research is done, and we're going to continue
finding better ways and better technologies to use our resources wisely.
The second is to help developing countries
improve their farming efficiency.
The third and the last is learning how consumer choices
can either support or challenge food sustainability.
To finish up this lesson,
go ahead and review the key points that are found at the end of your handout.
Congratulations!
This marks the end of the entire journey 2050 program.
You should at this point be able to answer the question
how can we sustainably feed nearly 10 billion people by the year 2050?
Hope you've enjoyed the path.