| | | The nutrition babies receive in the first two years of life is critical. Unicef reports, if the child’s mother isn’t getting the right nutrients, stunted growth and undernutrition may result, putting the child at greater risk of dying from common infections. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda runs the Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network that works to reduce poverty and hunger in Africa. At Spotlight Health in June, Sibanda said a global challenge is to ensure mothers are fed properly. To do that, the agriculture industry needs to rethink its methods. Right now, she says, yield and profit drive the industry, but farmers need to include nutrition as a third demand. From the makeup of seeds enhanced for better nutrition to how food is kept at home, she thinks the entire spectrum needs change. Education would also go a long way in helping individuals and families improve their overall health through nutrition. At home, she says families need to ask, “are we feeding to physiological condition? Or, is it just food and empty calories?” Watch the session Banishing Hunger: Inventive Strategies to Feed the World. |
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| | What's Fueling an Angry America? It’s difficult to ignore anger in the US right now—talking heads battle on cable news and families can’t talk politics around the dinner table. What’s fueling the anger? How can it be managed? In this Aspen Ideas to Go episode, Mickey Edwards, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Stephen Carter, and Arthur Brooks explore what’s behind an angry America. Subscribe on iTunes, your favorite podcasting app, and now, on NPR One. |
| Privacy on the Internet A collaboration between two Aspen Ideas speakers is helping the public better understand their privacy. Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC’s Note to Self, and Julia Angwin of ProPublica teamed up to investigate machines and how their algorithms affect our lives. Their first investigation is What Facebook Knows About You. Zomorodi says the Festival provided a relaxed environment for she and Angwin to discuss such projects. |
| Memorable Words Whenever anybody talks about America’s youth—millennials, people who are on their iPhones, anything about children—if you are not looking at that population through a Latino lens, you are not looking at America’s youth. — Arturo Vargas, Aspen Ideas 2016 |
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