Dr. Shenggen Fan, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute, spoke with HuffPost Live about how new technology can help the world deal with struggles related to food demand.
“We must produce more with less,” Fan said, specifically saying “more nutrition” is needed.
Fan said evolving technology is helping produce more rice, wheat, corn and even possibly meat that could help reduce world hunger.He said there can be win-win opportunities that can bring more nutritious food to people while also helping the private sector.
“Unless people win… the private sector will not be able to win,” he said.
Below, more updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:
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Brian Gallagher, president and CEO of United Way, stopped by HuffPost Live at Davos Wednesday
“There is no doubt that we… have never been more interconnected as a world,” Gallagher said.
Gallagher said though that the world “feels more out of control” to people today.
“Because we’re interconnected doesn’t mean we’re in control,” he added.
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BSA President Victoria Espinel talks about how technology is impacting government, transparency and trade.
Nicholas Dirks, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, joins HuffPost Live at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos.
“You can’t fight a war against 1.6 million [Muslim] people. You have to find a way to find the true radicals,” Zakaria said.
“I think that the danger is, how do you explain to the American people that yes, the United States is the world’s great super power, but there are some problems we cannot solve?” Zakaria asked, speaking on the U.S.’s approach in Syria.
“That’s a very tough thing,” he said.
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria joined HuffPost Live Wednesday, weighing in on U.S. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.
“Obama’s foreign policy has been very consciously modeled after one president… it’s Eisenhower,” Zakaria said.
Zakaria said you could see a “sense of discipline” in Obama’s speech on Tuesday.
