Sara Menker: A global food crisis may be less than a decade away
Sara Menker: Globalna prehrambena kriza mogla bi nastupiti za deset godina
Sara Menker is founder and CEO of Gro Intelligence, a tech company that marries the application of machine learning with domain expertise and enables users to understand and predict global food and agriculture markets. Full bio
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around a coming global food crisis
globalnoj prehrambenoj krizi
kako bi se ona izbjegla.
nine billion people by 2050?
devet milijardi ljudi do 2050.?
and dialogue around global food security
o globalnoj sigurnosti opskrbe hranom
70 percent more food.
70% više hrane.
hit all-time highs in 2008.
dosegle rekordne visine 2008. godine.
that they were paying attention
da prate što se događa
is so far into the future
a lot sooner than that.
a different question.
drukčije pitanje.
that I learned trading
prijelomnu točku,
change occurs so rapidly
dolazi toliko brzo
poljoprivrednoj industriji
structural capacity to produce food.
da proizvede hranu.
can no longer keep up with demand
ne može pratiti potražnju
to some type of structural change.
nekakvoj strukturnoj promjeni.
and governments may fall.
a vlade bi se mogle rušiti.
does supply struggle
for me while I was trading
bavila trgovinom
how broken the system was
da sustav ne funkcionira
to make such critical decisions.
za donošenje tako važnih odluka.
from a career on Wall Street
karijeru na Wall Streetu
na prikupljanje podataka
na svim razinama.
like every single person in this room,
poput svih nas ovdje prisutnih,
a coming global food security crisis.
globalnu krizu sigurnosti opskrbe hranom.
of data we sit on,
podataka kojima raspolažemo
we've been working on this problem
na rješavanju ovog problema
that I'm sharing what we discovered.
is actually a decade from now.
doći za deset godina.
to fill this gap.
popuniti tu prazninu.
is different from how I started,
quantified using mass:
koristeći se masom:
tonama, hektogramima,
in terms of weight?
and determine tonnage on a ship
možemo odrediti tonažu broda
airplanes and oxcarts.
zrakoplove i zaprežna kola.
in food is nutritional value.
nutritivna vrijednost.
to the US for university.
otišla studirati u SAD.
as I did in Ethiopia, but in America,
Americi kao i u Etiopiji,
a certain fullness to my figure.
is a very large number,
ogromna je brojka,
of trillions of calories.
bilijuna kalorija.
i na drugi način,
379 billion Big Macs in 2027.
379 milijardi Big Mac-ova 2027.g.
than McDonald's has ever produced.
McDonald's ikad proizveo.
to these numbers in the first place?
where the world was 40 years ago.
prije 40 godina.
in every country in the world.
svake države u svijetu.
consumed in that country
in that same country.
on malnutrition or anything else.
ili bilo čega drugog.
are consumed in a single year
troši u jednoj godini
were net exporters of calories,
bile su neto izvoznici kalorija,
na prste jedne ruke.
used to actually be food self-sufficient.
imala dovoljno hrane za svoje potrebe.
neto uvoznik kalorija.
that's occurred in the world.
as an agricultural powerhouse.
from red to blue.
that you see on this map.
that started off so similarly
koje su toliko slično započele,
had a green revolution.
has actually been exporting calories.
čak i izvozila kalorije.
over 300 trillion calories a year.
300 bilijuna kalorija godišnje.
from the blue to the bright red?
iz plave u žarku crvenu?
on a very similar path to India
na sličnoj putanji kao i Indija
to global agricultural markets.
na svjetskim poljoprivrednim tržištima.
at the same time as China's rise,
s porastom u Kini
were still somewhat balanced.
još uvijek bile uglavnom uravnotežene.
it's not just a story of China.
ne radi samo o Kini.
to overtake that of India's and China's.
premašiti ono Indije i Kine.
the world's population.
svjetskog stanovništva.
really interesting challenges
zaista zanimljive izazove
we're hit hard with that reality.
ta nas stvarnost sustiže.
India has been food self-sufficient.
samodostatna u pogledu hrane.
that this will continue.
a net importer of calories.
neto uvoznik kalorija.
from a population growth standpoint
porasta stanovništva
optimistic assumptions
can have huge implications.
može imati ogromne posljedice.
to be a net importer of calories,
and economic growth.
i gospodarskog rasta.
production growth assumptions.
pretpostavke rasta proizvodnje.
higher-calorie-content foods.
challenge for the world.
over the next decade of production
naredno desetljeće u proizvodnji
South America and Europe.
going to come from South America.
zapravo, doći iz Južne Amerike.
at the huge cost of deforestation.
at the combined demand increase
and the African continent,
the combined increase in production
sa sve većom proizvodnjom
China, the African continent,
a 214-trillion-calorie deficit,
we take all the extra calories
da sav višak kalorija,
South America and Europe
i Južnoj Americi te Europi
to India, China and Africa.
is a vision of an impossible world.
viziju nemogućeg svijeta.
or reducing food waste,
smanjenju bacanja hrane,
have been going on for some time now.
što se u tim raspravama
because those arguments
to change their behavior
da promijene ponašanje
to change their behavior
that comes from the red regions.
koje dolazi iz crvenih regija.
of how much more land it actually has
water resource availability issues.
dostupnošću vodenih resursa.
in India and in Africa.
in terms of potential yield increases.
between its current yield
maximum yield it can achieve.
koji može postići.
arable land remaining, but not much,
neobrađenih oranica,
on the other hand,
upside potential in yields.
African yields in corn today,
prinos kukuruza u supsaharskoj Africi,
yields were in 1940.
u Sjevernoj Americi 1940.
to figure this out,
about commercial farming alone.
poljoprivredne djelatnosti,
banking and insurance industries.
industrija bankarstva i osiguranja.
is about taking agriculture
usmjeravanje poljoprivrede
to one where fortunes can be made.
koji donose ogromnu dobit.
is not about just farmers.
samo na poljoprivrednike.
the entire agricultural system.
also means confronting the fact
suočiti s činjenicom
the burden of growth
i njihovo uvođenje
and the introduction of commercial farms
ekonomskih razmjera,
farmers can leverage.
čak i mali poljoprivrednici.
or commercial agriculture,
ni o komercijalnoj poljoprivredi,
of the coexistence and success
suživota i uspjeha
alongside commercial agriculture.
i komercijalne poljoprivrede.
for success in the industry --
za uspjeh u industriji,
how much money you have
and maximize probability of success
optimalnih odluka i poboljšanje izgleda
really hard to make this a reality.
na ostvarenju toga.
to this new, bold initiative,
smjeloj inicijativi,
the 214-trillion gap that I talked about,
manjak od 214 bilijuna kalorija,
on a whole new path.
u potpuno novom pravcu.
svoje potrebe za hranom,
as the world's next dark blue region.
tamno plava regija.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sara Menker - Technology entrepreneurSara Menker is founder and CEO of Gro Intelligence, a tech company that marries the application of machine learning with domain expertise and enables users to understand and predict global food and agriculture markets.
Why you should listen
Sara Menker is founder and CEO of Gro Intelligence, a technology company that is bridging data gaps across the global agriculture sector, empowering decision makers and creating a more informed, connected, efficient and productive global agriculture industry.
Prior to founding Gro, Menker was a vice president in Morgan Stanley's commodities group. She began her career in commodities risk management, where she covered all commodity markets, and she subsequently moved to trading, where she managed a trading portfolio. Menker is a trustee of the Mandela Institute For Development Studies (MINDS) and a trustee of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). She was named a Global Young Leader by the World Economic Forum and is a fellow of the African Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute.
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