How innovation and technology can fight global hunger | Bernhard Kowatsch
TED Talks Daily31 Maj 2022

How innovation and technology can fight global hunger | Bernhard Kowatsch

Social entrepreneur Bernhard Kowatsch shares real-life examples of how a business approach focused on accelerating tech (like a blockchain-supported way to bring food to refugees or a machine that fortifies flour at small mills in Africa) can help make an impact on big, seemingly intractable problems. "Innovation and technology can create so much good in the world, and together we can solve the world's biggest challenges," he says.

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