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.

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 w--
a weak economy with slow,

or, uh, 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.

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.

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 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.