Please respond to the following: The discussion questions given please produce 200 words about each numbered question. please place answers under each bullet point. In Addition a response must be given back (100 words) to the other students Jeannie Lamb and Vida Milberry. offering a substantive comment on that classmate’s position on the issue(s).
As addressed in the readings, technology has the potential to both solve global social problems and make them worse. For example, technological devices that can interact with the environment have the potential to reduce world hunger by helping to increase food production in developing countries. However, some technological advancements—such as weapons of war and automated assembly lines—can threaten life through armed conflict, and pollution of the environment can increase poverty by eliminating jobs.
Do advancements in technology pose any direct and/or indirect threats to the global environment?
Choose one advancement and provide two examples of direct or indirect threats in your explanation.
Review the posts of your classmates and respond to at least one other post, offering a substantive comment on that classmate’s position on the issue(s).
Vida Milberry
Hello,
In a world that is becoming increasingly food-insecure, due to population growth, climate change, volatile food prices, unequal food access, and inefficient supply chains. Hundreds of existing agricultural technologies and practices have the potential to boost agricultural yields in the developing world. Agricultural technologies are really at the heart of food productivity growth. Integrated soil fertility management, for example, can significantly boost maize in rainfed and irrigated environments, and has positive impacts on rice and wheat yields grown under the same conditions.
Integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) technologies hold potential to protect against climate risks, reduce nutrient depletion and enhance food security. Droughts are frequent and severe with devastating impacts especially on agriculture and food security
Yes, the benefits of technologies outweigh the negative consequences. In its fullest context, ISFM is not an arsenal of silver bullets targeted by land managers on all circumstances and locations, rather it is a compass that points them towards better land stewardship and rural livelihood. The ISFM offers a successive approach by recognizing fertilizer as a key entry point for improving productivity of cropping systems.
https://www.agrilinks.org/sites/default/files/resource/files/integrated_soil_fertility.pdf
Thank you,
Vida-
Jeannie Lamb
RE: Week 7 | Discussion
The vast majority of populations affected by malnutirtion live in rural areas where centrally processed foods simply don’t exist. Project Healthy Children teamed up with the telecoms giant Vodafone to solve this challenge. Through the Sanku-PHC initiative, they’re combining state-of-the-art dosifier technology and IoT solutions at small mills throughout Africa to provide flour to millions of people. Using the Sanku dosifier, African millers are able to add critical nutrients to flour in a sustainable and affordable way. However, with the support of Vodafone, PHC will scale and improve this system by bringing real-time insights to 3,00 flour mills.
Climate change is a huge contributor to global hunger, directly impacting food production. However, Wefarm is tackling this with its digital farmer-to-farmer knowledge sharing network. Underpinned by artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, it lets farmers solve daily challenges via an SMS-based platform. They can quickly find solutions to crop diseases, pets and other problems without Internet access. Since launching in 2015, the startup has raised $7 million and reached $1 million users.
There is no denying the fact that malnutrition is a global problem and can’t be stamped out overnight. But it is clear that technology has the power to enable real change and save millions of lives across the globe.
