Iris Scans, Hydroponics And Blockchain: How Innovation Is Helping Fight Global Hunger
- Date: 22-Sep-2020
- Source: Forbes
- Sector:Technology
- Country:GCC
Iris Scans, Hydroponics And Blockchain: How Innovation Is Helping Fight Global Hunger
A Syrian woman pays for groceries using an iris scan at Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan.
Mohammed Batah/World Food Programme
Almost 700 million people in the world don't have enough food to eat. Climate change and human conflict are making the problem worse: in the last five years, some 60 million more people have gone hungry. One in three people on Earth suffer some form of malnutrition.
In a race against time, innovators are joining forces to alleviate this suffering in ingenious and unexpected ways. From utilizing iris scanning technology to pay for food, to engineering low-tech hydroponics kits that can work in the Sahara desert, one team at the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) has been pooling ideas to come up with
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