Name: 【TED】Sara Menker: A global food crisis may be less than a decade away (A global food crisis may be less than a decade away | Sara Menker)
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on a single narrative around a coming global food crisis

How do we feed nine billion people by 2050?

Every conference, podcast and dialogue around global food security

by saying we need to produce 70 percent more food.

shortly after global food prices hit all-time highs in 2008.

needed to show us that they were paying attention

The thing is, 2050 is so far into the future

it's going to hit us a lot sooner than that.

I believe we need to ask a different question.

I was a commodities trader in my past life

and one of the things that I learned trading

is that every market has a tipping point,

the point at which change occurs so rapidly

surpasses the agricultural system's structural capacity to produce food.

This means at this point supply can no longer keep up with demand

unless we can commit to some type of structural change.

it won't be about stock markets and money.

People could starve and governments may fall.

This question of at what point does supply struggle

is one that started off as an interest for me while I was trading

when I realized through my research how broken the system was

and how very little data was being used to make such critical decisions.

That's the point I decided to walk away from a career on Wall Street

and doing the work to make it actionable,

to empower decision-makers at every level.

but businesses and citizens like every single person in this room,

on how we can avoid a coming global food security crisis.

leveraging the petabytes of data we sit on,

Now, no one knows we've been working on this problem

and this is the first time that I'm sharing what we discovered.

We discovered that the tipping point is actually a decade from now.

The world is not in a position to fill this gap.

that the way I'm framing this is different from how I started,

and that's intentional, because until now

this problem has been quantified using mass:

Why do we talk about food in terms of weight?

We can look at a photograph and determine tonnage on a ship

We can weigh trucks, airplanes and oxcarts.

But what we care about in food is nutritional value.

when I moved from Ethiopia to the US for university.

approximately the same amount of food as I did in Ethiopia, but in America,

had actually lent a certain fullness to my figure.

This is why we should care about calories,

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