Journey 2050 Lesson 7: Technology & Innovation | Self-Guided Experience

PRESENTER: This is the Journey 2050
self-guided experience.

You are on lesson seven
on innovation and technology.

For step two of this lesson,
you're going to pause this video

and start watching
the TED talk that's called,

"A global food crisis
may be less than a decade away."

Note that you're only gonna watch
the t--first 2 minutes and 29 seconds

of this particular TED Talk,

and then you're going
to consider a statement

that Sara makes in this TED Talk
and respond 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 & 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...uh, reiterate this reflection just a little bit,
make sure that you're taking 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. You know,

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.

Um, 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,
uh, 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,

and 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 have learned throughout the
entire "Journey 2050" program.

We're coming to the end,
we're almost there.

But, 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.