Monday, 13 June 2016

3 reasons why we can win the fight against poverty

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3 reasons why we can win the fight against poverty

13:14 minutes · TED2016

Half of the world's poorest people have something in common: they're small farmers. In this eye-opening talk, activist Andrew Youn shows how his group, One Acre Fund, is helping these farmers lift themselves out of poverty by delivering to them life-sustaining farm services that are already in use all over the world. Enter this talk believing we'll never be able to solve hunger and extreme poverty, and leave it with a new understanding of the scale of the world's biggest problems.

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The quest to end poverty

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