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Venuprasad Ramaiah: Ending Poverty and Hunger in Rice-Based Agri-Food Systems

Venuprasad Ramaiah: Ending Poverty and Hunger in Rice-Based Agri-Food Systems
Venu: It’s great to be here, Spiffy! IRRI is dedicated to abolishing poverty and hunger among people and populations that depend on rice-based agri-food systems. Through our work and partnerships, we aim to improve the health and welfare of rice farmers and consumers, promote environmental sustainability in a world challenged by climate change, and support the empowerment of women and youth in the rice industry. Our unit manages the International Rice Genebank (IRG), which conserves the world’s largest collection of rice genetic diversity.

Danna Ingleton: Collecting and Sharing Insights on Human Rights, Climate, and More

Danna Ingleton: Collecting and Sharing Insights on Human Rights, Climate, and More
Danna: Thanks for having me, Spiffy. At HURIDOCS, we help people collect, process, and communicate important information about human rights, climate change, and more. We develop our own open-source software, enabling activists and change-makers to securely store their data and ensure it is usefully organized for advocacy or court cases. We even use machine learning to help them find important information faster! Our tool is called Uwazi, which means “openness” in Swahili, and we have more than 300 partners around the world.

Grace Sai: Helping Businesses to Be More Carbon Conscious and Reduce Emissions

Grace Sai: Helping Businesses to Be More Carbon Conscious and Reduce Emissions
Grace: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! We help companies be 'carbon curious' and then 'carbon smart' by helping them know how much their business activities affect climate change in the world, and then we help them see what they can do to reduce their 'carbon emissions'. We have built an AI engine that can generate magical carbon results in a short amount of time! Large companies use us to know where they can do better, and then, hopefully they do!