Business Finance Homework Help

Part 1: Watch one of the 12 YouTube videos listed below AND one of the two readings listed below.

Describe your Take-Away messages from the video and reading in one or two meaningful paragraphs.

12 YouTube Videos:

1. GMOs versus Gene-Edited Foods (2 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0REhKMSZs70 (Links to an external site.)

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1. GMOs (5 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKO9s0zLthU (Links to an external site.)

1. Bill Gates on GMOs – YouTube 3 minutes : (Links to an external site.)

1. Water Smart Technology in Ethiopia: 2 minute YouTube (Links to an external site.)

1. Harvest Plus on Biofortification to Reduce Hidden Hunger (Micronutrients). https://www.harvestplus.org/content/about (Links to an external site.) 3 minutes SCROLL DOWN IN THE ARTICLE UNTIL YOU FIND THE VIDEO

6. Increasing SHFs Income Can Reduce Economic Costs of Hunger

Ending Hunger and Undernutrition by 2025 (Links to an external site.) 4 minutes – IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute)

7. Olga Murray, Founder of Nepal Youth Foundation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzuKy0yWOUE (Links to an external site.)

5 minutes: Olga Murray, Founder of Nepal Youth Foundation

8. Olga Murray’s Children’s Village in Nepal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE5Nqe66ghY (Links to an external site.)

3.5 minutes: Olga Murray’s Children’s Village in Nepal

9. OIga Murray’s Nepal Nutritional Rehabilitation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr3QgFD_edM (Links to an external site.)

1 minute: OIga Murray’s Nepal Nutritional Rehabilitation

10: Transporting People and Goods in Nepal. One Minute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZQf2B7VSKk (Links to an external site.)

11. Cables Get Girls to School in Nepal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XUKixfDHCM (Links to an external site.)

12. Grameen Foundation/Bangladesh; 3 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/user/grameen (Links to an external site.)

Two Readings:

1. One Billion Hungry; Can We Feed the World? Gordon Conway. 2012. Chapter 9, “Designer Crops”, (pages 167-186). One of your textbooks.

1. Technology for Development. Susanna Ray. Dec 2019 https://news.microsoft.com/features/a-young-woman-…

Part 2: Question: Ten examples of agricultural technologies (Lecture 14) are listed below. These were developed to reduce the costs and losses associated with diseased planting material; water; seeds; fertilizers; and chemicals. Which ones caught your attention the most? Why?

– Tissue culture for disease free planting material

– Satellite Images (real time farm info), GPS and Field Mapping Devices

– Field Monitoring & Variable Treatments to match quality of specific land areas

– Soil moisture stress instruments, soil samples and water-monitoring devices to determine water needs

– Soil and leaf sampling to determine specific fertilizer needs

– Laser Leveling

– “Smart” Irrigation Systems in both poor and rich countries, including fertigation and chemigation.

– Drone data to automate & optimize farm management; locate irrigation leakages

-Platform Tronto in Ghana for tractor rental

– Inputs automatically adjusted; computer-program-based

Post your responses in one or two meaningful paragraphs.