Su Kahumbu: How we can help hungry kids, one text at a time
سو كاهومبو: كيف يمكننا محاربة سوء التغذية في إفريقيا باستعمال الرسائل النصية
TED Fellow Su Kahumbu is working to improve farmer livelihoods and contribute to nutritional security and environmental sustainability. Full bio
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to my badass friends.
getting a lot of crap lately
and climate change,
their reputation in part
incredibly important they are
biggest problems: food security.
معدل النمو البشري.
in human development.
and debilitating cycles of illness,
can't endure such rigors.
long-term cognitive problems
under the age of five,
من تأخر النمو،
they haven't been declining is here,
التي لم يحدث فيها هذا التراجع
their genetic potential --
dietary requirements,
that lack of essential amino acids,
in young children's diets,
synthesize them in our bodies.
on the African continent is crop-based.
هي النباتات
of smallholder farmers rearing animals,
is not as easy as we think.
ليس بالأمر السهل كما نعتقد،
rich countries and poor countries
والأخرى الفقيرة
in those poor countries,
found across the world
التي وجدت على الأرض،
Infectious Diseases database.
that share hosts.
وبالتالي تنتشر الأمراض
diseases kill 2.2 million people
تقتل 2.2 مليون شخص،
poor livestock keepers."
the importance of our smallholder farmers.
how important they are
our cognitive and our physical health.
of zoonotic epidemics.
ضد الأوبئة الحيوانية المصدر،
prevention and treatment.
ومعالجتها من الأمراض.
are boots on the ground and radio --
وعلى الإذاعات
in the face of population growth.
لمسايرة النمو الديموغرافي
point in Africa.
using innovative solutions,
an agricultural platform called iCow.
منصة تكنولوجية فلاحية تدعى "iCow"
best livestock practices using SMS
لتربية المواشي باستعمال رسائل نصية
on best livestock practices,
بها نصائح
go on to see increases in productivity
of course, are improved animal health.
رافقه تحسن في صحة الماشية.
agricultural manuals into the fields.
part of the global food network:
to bring together producers and consumers
والمستهلكين
for not only food security,
ليس فقط فيما يخص الأمن الغذائي
Sahiwal crossed with a Dutch Fleckvieh.
بين سلالة أفرو-أسيوية وأخرى هولندية
to disease than her Fleckvieh father.
من أبيها الهولندي
is using SMS and cutting-edge genomics
بالرسائل النصية وتقنيات الجينوم المتطورة
tropically adapted dairy breeding centers
their production data --
through algorithms
livestock institutions in the world
عبر العالم
in agriculture in Africa.
mobile phone subscriptions.
في خدمة الهاتف النقال
systems are not only healthy,
to guarantee food security.
is one of the best ways
هو واحد من أهم الطرق
their full opportunity
their full genetic potential.
of millions of smallholder farmers
a halt to stunting in Africa.
على تأخر نمو الأطفال بإفريقيا
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Su Kahumbu - Agriculturalist, social entrepreneurTED Fellow Su Kahumbu is working to improve farmer livelihoods and contribute to nutritional security and environmental sustainability.
Why you should listen
Su Kahumbu creates cool mobile phone agriculture solutions for small holder farmers in Africa. Her solutions target improved climate resilient production methods that deliver on sustainable human, animal, crop and ecosystem health.
Kahumbu latest baby is her award winning app, iCow, which is a comprehensive mobile phone based agricultural platform that provides farmers easy access to cutting edge sustainable agricultural knowledge, markets and experts. iCow is designed for low-end feature phones, helping users that aren't connected to the internet access to a database of rich offline content which they receive in SMS, 24/7 in languages of their choice. It comprises comprehensive content on livestock, crops, soils, pollinators, insects and more and is currently used by thousands of small holder farmers in Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia in five local languages.
Kahumbu is a passionate social entrepreneur with 21 years experience of working with small holder farmers and organic farming systems in Kenya. Her goal is to inspire, enable and support farming communities across Africa by making farming sexy.
Kahumbu is based in Nairobi, Kenya where she heads Green Dreams Tech Ltd as the CEO. She is a TED Global Fellow, an advisory board member for Changing Course in Global Agriculture and the agricultural governor of the Mpesa Foundation Academy.
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