Improving agricultural productivity and reducing hunger in Africa, Bill Gates argues, will require a system-wide approach. Better seeds (from conventional breeding and genetic engineering), more fertilizer, reducing food waste, and other strategies should help many African nations. But will the global community and the nations themselves commit to implementing such an approach? Gates’ goal, says this 2015 video, is to abolish hunger by 2030, but that clearly is not going to happen. (The Verge; 2015; 2’50”)
Fighting junk food marketing to kids
This prescient video produced by a media-advocacy organization in California explains the state of food marketing to children in 2006.
