1. Andrew Youn started One Acre Fund that only serves to farmers and to provide them with the tools they need to succeed. They would start off with delivering farm inputs to rural places. First, they would buy farm inputs from their farmers network and store it in 20 warehouses. After they would rent out hundred's of 10-ton trucks to send out to farmers in the field. The farmers then would pick up their orders and bring it back to their farms. Farmers then pay in small amounts over a period of time, to cover the expenses of the delivery. The organization also provides training to farmers in the field every two weeks to gain knowledge and access on productive farming skills. The take-home message for Andrew Youn Ted Talks was that eliminating poverty and hunger can be very achievable with the help of spreading modern farming tools and knowledge to rural places. Esther Duflo is an economist who does field research to learn about social experiments to fight poverty. She first gave a big question of whether the aid we spent in the past has made a difference, however she was unable to answer that, we taught us to break down the big questions into smaller questions that we could answer. She then states that through experimenting and testing on social policy, we are able to see results that allow us to answer the smaller questions that can …show more content…
Andrew Youn is a graduate from Yale magna cum laude. He became management consultant and received his master at Kellogg School of Management. His main knowledge and motivation erupted from his first-hand experience living in rural Africa for about 10 years. During his time in rural Africa, he stayed and witness the largest group of poor people which were also smallholder farmers. He had stayed with a small group of family who barely had any food to feed themselves. I do not detect any bias or conflict of interest in the speaker because his real-life experience is a factual evidence of what is really like in other poorer