Sara Menker: A global food crisis may be less than a decade away
Sara Menker: Globalna prehrambena kriza je samo deceniju daleko
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
nine billion people by 2050?
9 milijardi ljudi do 2050?
and dialogue around global food security
i dialog oko svjetske krize
70 percent more food.
neposredno nakon
hit all-time highs in 2008.
dosegle vrhunac 2008.
that they were paying attention
is so far into the future
tako daleko u budućnosti,
a lot sooner than that.
a different question.
that I learned trading
change occurs so rapidly
structural capacity to produce food.
can no longer keep up with demand
ne može pratiti potražnju
to some type of structural change.
and governments may fall.
i vlade bi mogle pasti.
does supply struggle
for me while I was trading
how broken the system was
to make such critical decisions.
from a career on Wall Street
na svim nivoima.
like every single person in this room,
a coming global food security crisis.
of data we sit on,
we've been working on this problem
that I'm sharing what we discovered.
is actually a decade from now.
kritična tačka desiti za deceniju.
to fill this gap.
is different from how I started,
quantified using mass:
in terms of weight?
and determine tonnage on a ship
i odredimo težinu broda
airplanes and oxcarts.
in food is nutritional value.
nutritivna vrijednost.
to the US for university.
as I did in Ethiopia, but in America,
a certain fullness to my figure.
is a very large number,
of trillions of calories.
379 billion Big Macs in 2027.
nedostaje 379 milijardi Big Mac-ova.
than McDonald's has ever produced.
nego je McDonalds ikada proizveo.
to these numbers in the first place?
where the world was 40 years ago.
in every country in the world.
consumed in that country
in that same country.
on malnutrition or anything else.
are consumed in a single year
konzumaciji kalorija
were net exporters of calories,
used to actually be food self-sufficient.
Kina je bila samo-održiva.
that's occurred in the world.
as an agricultural powerhouse.
from red to blue.
that you see on this map.
crvena linija je Afrika.
that started off so similarly
had a green revolution.
has actually been exporting calories.
izvozi kalorije.
over 300 trillion calories a year.
preko 300 milijardi kalorija godišnje.
from the blue to the bright red?
on a very similar path to India
ekonomskim razvojem
to global agricultural markets.
at the same time as China's rise,
were still somewhat balanced.
i potražnja izbalansirale.
it's not just a story of China.
to overtake that of India's and China's.
the world's population.
svjetske populacije.
really interesting challenges
predstavlja interesantan izazov
we're hit hard with that reality.
nas je snašla stvarnost-
India has been food self-sufficient.
Indija je samo-održiva.
that this will continue.
a net importer of calories.
from a population growth standpoint
optimistic assumptions
can have huge implications.
velike implikacije.
to be a net importer of calories,
uvoznik kalorija
and economic growth.
production growth assumptions.
higher-calorie-content foods.
challenge for the world.
Južnu Ameriku i Evropu.
over the next decade of production
u idućoj deceniji
South America and Europe.
Južne Amerike i Evrope.
going to come from South America.
doći iz Južne Amerike.
at the huge cost of deforestation.
at the combined demand increase
na porast potražnje
and the African continent,
the combined increase in production
rastom produkcije
China, the African continent,
a 214-trillion-calorie deficit,
we take all the extra calories
South America and Europe
Južnoj Americi i Evropi
to India, China and Africa.
is a vision of an impossible world.
je vizija svijeta.
or reducing food waste,
ili smanjenja otpada,
have been going on for some time now.
because those arguments
to change their behavior
to change their behavior
that comes from the red regions.
Kine, Indije, Afrike.
of how much more land it actually has
water resource availability issues.
in India and in Africa.
in terms of potential yield increases.
between its current yield
maximum yield it can achieve.
arable land remaining, but not much,
on the other hand,
upside potential in yields.
African yields in corn today,
yields were in 1940.
kao severnoamerički iz 1940.
to figure this out,
about commercial farming alone.
banking and insurance industries.
bankarstva i osiguranja.
is about taking agriculture
to one where fortunes can be made.
is not about just farmers.
the entire agricultural system.
also means confronting the fact
the burden of growth
and the introduction of commercial farms
komercijalnih farmi
farmers can leverage.
or commercial agriculture,
ili komercijalnoj poljoprivredi,
of the coexistence and success
alongside commercial agriculture.
i komercijalnom poljoprivredom.
for success in the industry --
za uspjeh u industriji -
how much money you have
and maximize probability of success
really hard to make this a reality.
to this new, bold initiative,
toj novoj hrabroj inicijativi,
the 214-trillion gap that I talked about,
nedostatak od 214 biliona kalorija,
on a whole new path.
as the world's next dark blue region.
nova tamno plava regija.
8.3 milijarde ljudi u 2027?
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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