Kimberly Ma
Section 13 – Hunger and Environmental Nutrition
Ted Talk Critique #1
1. In Esther Duflo’s speech, she explains how the advantages of using the increasing studies of the research field to observe what works and what does not. Poverty is a difficult conflict because we do not have accurate or good data. Duflo suggests that we break down the huge problem of poverty and break it down into smaller problems that we can pinpoint. She proposes questions and affordable solutions as to how to immunize children, stop them from diseases (specifically malaria), and how to place children into schools. Overall, aid from other countries can be of great assistance to poor countries like Africa, but only if it is done rightly through research and …show more content…
Andrew Yuon is an experienced professional in his field. He earned his M.B.A at Northwestern University and has prior managerial experience as a consultant. He is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of One Acre Fund, which allow farmers in Africa access to tools and resources that make farming more efficient and productive. I do not believe that he is bias in any way because his organization is a non-profit organization. Profits and donations go directly towards the farmers to improve their farming conditions. This means he does not take the profit for his own intentions, unless it is towards helping the cause. I do not observe any conflicts of interests other than his passion to collaborate with farmers and assist them to the best of his abilities. To date, he serves over 800,000 farmers directly and indirectly through government partnerships. I see this statistic as results to help ameliorate the conflict of world …show more content…
One example that I have always heard in my personal life is that poverty does not have a solution. It is the help of other countries that will lift them out of poverty. After these Ted Talks, I realize that it is in fact, not true. There are many approachable ways that the presenters highlighted. Duflo, for instance, says that aid from other countries is proven to help, only if we use it resourcefully and strategically. That way, big problems are an easy fix. A strategic example that she demonstrates consists of one simple answer. Lentils. By providing lentils to the poor community, it gives families an incentive to come forward to get immunizations for their children. The answer is very simple; and yet it costs almost nothing to solve one of the biggest problems of disease in the country. That is what she means by strategically using our
Section 13 – Hunger and Environmental Nutrition
Ted Talk Critique #1
1. In Esther Duflo’s speech, she explains how the advantages of using the increasing studies of the research field to observe what works and what does not. Poverty is a difficult conflict because we do not have accurate or good data. Duflo suggests that we break down the huge problem of poverty and break it down into smaller problems that we can pinpoint. She proposes questions and affordable solutions as to how to immunize children, stop them from diseases (specifically malaria), and how to place children into schools. Overall, aid from other countries can be of great assistance to poor countries like Africa, but only if it is done rightly through research and …show more content…
Andrew Yuon is an experienced professional in his field. He earned his M.B.A at Northwestern University and has prior managerial experience as a consultant. He is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of One Acre Fund, which allow farmers in Africa access to tools and resources that make farming more efficient and productive. I do not believe that he is bias in any way because his organization is a non-profit organization. Profits and donations go directly towards the farmers to improve their farming conditions. This means he does not take the profit for his own intentions, unless it is towards helping the cause. I do not observe any conflicts of interests other than his passion to collaborate with farmers and assist them to the best of his abilities. To date, he serves over 800,000 farmers directly and indirectly through government partnerships. I see this statistic as results to help ameliorate the conflict of world …show more content…
One example that I have always heard in my personal life is that poverty does not have a solution. It is the help of other countries that will lift them out of poverty. After these Ted Talks, I realize that it is in fact, not true. There are many approachable ways that the presenters highlighted. Duflo, for instance, says that aid from other countries is proven to help, only if we use it resourcefully and strategically. That way, big problems are an easy fix. A strategic example that she demonstrates consists of one simple answer. Lentils. By providing lentils to the poor community, it gives families an incentive to come forward to get immunizations for their children. The answer is very simple; and yet it costs almost nothing to solve one of the biggest problems of disease in the country. That is what she means by strategically using our