TLF ID M015218
This is a video clip of a TEDMED speaker, Howard Shapiro, presenting ideas about improving the nutritional value of plants to address malnutrition and the food requirements of a growing world population. The clip emphasises that poor nutrition has negative health and developmental effects on children, particularly those in developing nations, and that providing access to modern, nutritionally rich varieties of traditional crops may provide a solution. The clip includes digital representations of seeds, plants and a growing human foetus; as well as images of children suffering malnutrition and associated developmental abnormalities.