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The Revolutionary Power of Food
The Revolutionary Power of Food
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Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Dec 20, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
Food is powerful in ways you may not often think about. Farmers in Zambia couldn’t get a market for their crops until a mobile phone application connected them to buyers. Now, their income is up and their community is growing. They’ve gone from being subsistence farmers to agricultural entrepreneurs, reports cohost Edie Lush. The same technology that others use to find cabs on Uber or dates on Tinder has now created “eBay for farmers” who otherwise would remain isolated at the end of a long dirt road.
Released:
Dec 20, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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