Also number alexis is deputy ceo of new york city where she runs basically a policy Experiment Lab trying to get vendors to compete for who can devise the best programs to improve social welfare of the citizens of new york. She is the adjunct professor of tech media and communications at Columbia University and she spent a couple decades studying these issues extremely intensively as a student and then as a member of the staff at the un mission. Of the state department, and also just thinking very deeply about them which is so clear from this book which i really admire. So quick round of applause for alexis. [applause] this book is about what you call met states, maybe you want to start by taking a minute and showing us what those are and why you felt like we needed a new category for them. Thank you for coming, its wonderful to see you here and i think the best way to describe what it is is to talk about how icame upon the idea to write this book in the first place. Back in 2015, ther
, the president , by the way, compares with a hot war, look will not. We will have bread hot war, as in ukraine , in fact, we are just like, uh, you can start with you, look. Here it seems to me epoch e, also for many people. Im not my opinion. Now i say the era of large farms. She never passed. In the early nineties, we had such a story that everyone suddenly wanted to become farmers. Lets give away latifundia to those who have a small piece, sell somewhere there, and in the end it turned out that everyone up to the west lives a little, otherwise. Yes, perhaps this is a private trader who has some kind of land, but this is essentially enterprise, and we are now talking about the fact that this collective farm system that existed in the soviet union is not unique. Yes, it may be slightly different in terms of the level of ownership, but one person has two hectares of land to feed himself with what you can, but if you earn money by business. Probably because , well, i was with you for e
Periods of different forms, pointed, bluntly finite. Uh, its just that all the fields are littered with bullets. What kind of battles are there . Well , i can say for sure, of course, i cant, but the fact that the battles were going on and there were a lot of them. Thats for sure. Once upon a time there was a very beautiful church. We can see the remains of the foundation of this church. Here they are stones, but evil people during the soviet era, they burned it and for a long time our circle was vacant with great joy was the pledge of this. Cross on the site of the burned church and at first they hoped that another church would be restored here, but a decision was made. Eh, after all, in another part to build a church, but in memory of the history of the past, this cross stands here. All of them , indifferent people, always come with reverence and worship the mother of god and this cross , this holy place. Here is such a memory. And even churches, since this church was located on the
Of u. S. Worker is 39. The average age of the u. S. Farm operator is 55. There are not young people going into farming and we have to ask why. We need young people to enter into the farming industry. We need farming to be economically viable for young people and to supply restaurants like me the stuff that i need because what happens at my restaurant ultimately filters out to the rest of society. If you look at this chart, im not going to go into all the details of it, but you basically have a very small triangle which represents the family farm and on the other side the large part of the triangle which represents commodity agriculture. You need both. Obviously you cant be the entire world on small family farms, but to me, this chart represents something that is out of balance. We need to figure out a way to raise up family farms. We need to make farming attractive. We need to make it sexy. We need young people to understand this is something they can do as a viable job. We need food t
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