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I believe technology and innovation

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can help make a difference

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for some of the world's biggest challenges.

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Climate change is one of the biggest drivers

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of hunger across the world,

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and Africa is one of the regions that suffers most from it.

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At the World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator,

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we're looking for

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the best start-ups and innovations globally,

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and we help them go to scale to help lift people out of hunger.

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We currently have a range of projects going on.

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One innovation we've supported is called H2Grow,

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a hydroponics initiative

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where vulnerable populations learn

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how to grow food without soil.

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And what's exciting about hydroponics?

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It takes 90% less water.

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You need less space and is also needing less fertilizers,

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if you're actually growing food.

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In developing countries,

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40 to 50% of the food is lost,

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which is called post-harvest loss.

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So it never enters the food value chain

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from the field to be consumed by somebody.

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So Post-Harvest Loss (PHL) Venture as we're calling it,

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aims at some of the most vulnerable

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smallholder farmers to try to help them dry the crops

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and then to store them in a hermetically sealed bag or a silo.

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And by doing that, you can reduce post-harvest loss

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from up to 50% down to 1 or 2% only.

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And what's really exciting as well is that all the energy,

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all the seeds, all the fertilizer that has gone into producing

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that food is no longer going to waste,

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but is actually going to productively

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be nutritious food for people to be consumed.

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RF Rural Resilience Initiative

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is to help some of the most vulnerable

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smallholder farmers to get access to weather insurance.

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You may suffer from an extreme event

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a lot harder yourself

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than when it's pooled across a large number of people.

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So this is why weather insurance is so important.

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And especially as we believe that there's going

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to be more extreme events going further,

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we actually need to make sure that this kind of basic insurance

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gets more widespread across the globe.

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Oftentimes people see problems,

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but there's also opportunities and actions that each of us can take.

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I encourage all of us to think about

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what you can do in your company,

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or also as an individual through consumer choice, for instance,

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to help tackle the climate crisis.