stanforddoerr – Oct 23, 2023
The Big Ideas Lecture Series invites global thought leaders for discussions on Earth, climate, and society that engage the entire Stanford community. At a fireside chat moderated by Professor Thomas Jaramillo, entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Gates discusses global health, energy, and our climate future.
See related:
- In Sweeping New Report, Climate Scientists Urge Move Toward Plant-Based Diets
- Worsening hunger grips West and Central Africa amid persistent conflict and economic turmoil
- New study: urgent action to enhance food aid and revitalize agriculture critical to averting looming famine in Sudan | United Nations Development Programme
- Jeffrey Sachs’ speech at the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit (full speech)
- The mistake of petro-intensive agriculture – the UNA “Global Engagement Summit” – 22 February 2019
- “India’s Green Revolution: More Harm Than Good” by Vandana Shiva
- The “Green Revolution:” Its Essence, Achievements & Aftermath
- Global Balliol
- The Malthus Insight and the Global Limits of “Green Revolution” Food Production
- The Fertiliser Trap | IATP
- Soils, Agriculture, Carbon Sequestration and Human Survival
- The “Green Revolution:” Its Essence, Achievements & Aftermath
- “Just take the case of agriculture…”
and - Selected links to the thought and works of Vandana Shiva
As well as:
- ‘Bill Gates is continuing the work of Monsanto’, Vandana Shiva tells FRANCE 24
- Why Bill Gates is Now the Biggest US Farmland Owner
- Bill Gates: How Gene Editing, AI Can Benefit World’s Poorest – AAAS, 2020
- Why I love fertilizer
- Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why? | Bill Gates | The Guardian
- Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology: Vandana Shiva
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