Hello and welcome to another coordinating call of DM25, the movement for Europe featuring progressive ideas you won't hear anywhere else. As usual, we're going to have our burning issues. That's our take on what's happening in the world this week and then a discussion on Catalonian independence. If you've got comments, questions, rants, concerns, anything you want to say, please put it in the chat. This is live, so we might be reading them out between interventions and putting them to the speakers. Let's kick it off, Rosemary. Good evening everybody. I'm sorry to start in our rather marvellous tradition of speaking about very dark things in this program, but I felt that I had to say something about how International Women's Day has come over in the UK this week and in particular in the parliamentary debate that takes place traditionally today in which we always read out a list of the women who have been murdered in the past year and this year this has taken on a very particular sensational aspect because of the disappearance of a young 33-year-old woman in London, Sarah Everard, who it's thought has been murdered and this has caused a lot of conversation, a lot of discussion in all the social media particularly amongst young women and has been compared almost to a George Floyd moment in the UK because people are beginning to think that we've really got to do something about violence, the importance to notions of masculinity of power and control and force and in the UK and in many many other places this is really a discussion that has scarcely begun although it's a centuries-old problem and I think that for me what it does is that it really does, it oblige us to link the fight for women's rights and emancipation and equality and their contribution and world with the fight for peace, the fight against war, the fight against violence and I do hope that DiEM25 will be thinking that one through. I've heard recently people urging in DiEM25 that we link the Green New Deal as well to a new approach towards calling for peace in the world and I do think that again this makes it a central issue that we neglect at our peril. Thanks Rosemary. Patricia. Yes thank you. Well keep following what Rosemary just said let me add something about what as DiEM25 we propose in Italy for the International Women Day. As we all know women have paid the highest price in this pandemic both at work and at home and to this tragedy we should mention also psychological damage, domestic violence and many many many other facts. The percentage of this terrible situation at the moment are terrible in Italy but not only. You muted yourself but Patricia. Yeah sorry sometimes happened. What we have done is a proposal that I also want to invite everybody who are following us right now to have a look at it on our social pages where we try to explain how we want to put people life back at the center of public space and try to guarantee in that way gender equality and make strongly true, make more strongly welfare and service guaranteed. So I really believe that we did a quite good job and once more please follow us in all our pages where we we did all these. Thanks. Thanks Katia. Patricia forgive me. Juliana. Yes hello everyone. I want to briefly talk about Germany and I think it's very interesting what's happening in the moment here because I just read an article yesterday which compares the government of Merkel to the government of Kohl previously and I think for me at least it marked something because I've never seen the German government fall apart so fast and so quickly and I'm recognizing that the media are also more and more turning against the current government in Germany. Maybe Claudia can say something about this and she saw it too but it's different from being common sense from the side of the media and being very careful with attacking the government because of COVID but that mood changed suddenly and I think there's well a lot of anger amongst the people in Germany and I had a taste of the COVID mismanagement myself the last week when my whole family was sick and you know we all feared that we had COVID and all my symptoms were perfectly for COVID except I didn't have high fever so I called the hotline which you're supposed to call and they said to me you know you can't take a test because you don't have high fever and I'm like but my husband cannot take free from work if I don't take the test and she's like yeah well take some rest so I'm sitting at home with three children sick I'm sick three children are sick not knowing if I have COVID and they won't let me test myself so it's really you know before you heard these stories but then you experience it yourself and you're thinking like what's going on here this is like how am I supposed to get along with this situation and and nobody cares because they are of course they they have I mean the people at the hotline are not my problem right it's the whole information and the whole structure around the COVID in Germany that is completely to be honest I'm German in kind of way you know it's it's such a huge mismanagement that I'm not recognizing the structures that are existing here at this moment so yeah I'm feeling like the mood is changing here very very fastly and with upcoming elections I'm not sure at this point who will have a real chance because I don't see any champion taking advantage of the situation but it's getting to move to us at this point and I think it will get even more so thanks Juliana I'm glad you're feeling better sounds like a nightmare Bera okay one minute I am now on my computer sorry we can hear you perfectly well better go for it Bera we hear you connecting if not I can quick jump into answer to Juliana's question because as I'm following the press very much and yeah she's totally right the situation now changes a lot and in fact that our CEO and CSU W people do you hear my voice now yes we hear you Beryl Claudia is just going to finish her statement and then we'll bring you in yeah did you know that the women movement started during the Ottoman Empire probably you didn't know it yes it is as old as one century century and they these there were feminist there was a feminist movement and these women have fought to increase women's access to education and they wanted to abolish polygamy and they wanted to abolish this islamic way and all this kind of islamic positions of women in the society so what happened 8th of March there was a march in Beyoğlu district the women there were thousands of women and they they were they didn't allow them to go to Taksim place which is the center of the city and so they found another way and walked to Karaköy district but at the end 13 women are in custody now there is no reason why they are in custody because it was a very peaceful walk but you know what happens in Turkey and the discussion is about this Istanbul Convention the parliament and is discussing Istanbul Convention which will really support the women and protect them from being killed by these horrible men I don't know how to describe these men and and every day women MPs are talking in the parliament against this feminist in Turkey and all the islamic rules about making women citizens of an islamic republic so this I prepared a video with a the member of DM Turkey will down do get all she is a designer we talked about the problems of women artists women designers in Turkey and this video was distributed through social media thank you thanks Param and thanks to you out there for bearing with us to the technical hiccups in the overlaps we move fast and sometimes things get broken Claudia you finish your statement please from before where did I stop I mean the corruption scenery in Germany about the the mass country distribution it was a really huge thing and some of those politicians have to reject from their political position and yeah this is a big issue here and I think this is only the top of the iceberg as we say in Germany because there will be I think there is much more corruption in this covid game we can see and I hope this will turn out good for us so that everything will turn out good for the people and the vaccines will come to to to our people very soon and will not stop by playing games from politicians and corrupt big pharma industries I'm really scared about that but cross our fingers guys Claudia Janis thanks madam the last few days have been a nightmare here in Greece we have seen scenes of violence that we haven't seen for decades it was all started by the police there was no police response to violence there was violence occasioned by the police so for instance let me just give you an example last saturday in a suburb a well-to-do suburb of Athens where there has never been any trouble before or ever even back in the days of 2011 or 2009 or 1999 or 1973 when Athens was burning near smirny this suburb of Athens was always tranquil and pretty bourgeois what happened was you know we're going through a very very strict lockdown hugely strict lockdown because of the complete failures of the government to shore up the public health system to have any degree of serious vaccination and people families were walking around the main piazza of near smirny um not not in any great numbers there was no high concentration ratio they were walking it's a lot of piazza and policemen special police a special police force that has just been hastily put together these are not even well trained police they've had something like three days of training on bikes with full armor looking like you know they were going to war not to a bourgeois piazza they stormed in the middle of the of the of the piazza and they started harassing families with kids and giving them 300 euro per person fees fines for having you know violated the quarantine and lockdown rules and some young people who were just hanging around there went to the police and said what are you doing these are just families leave them alone and of course they were attacked and we we had one of those videos that went viral uh of a young man being beaten to the ground a kind of account breathe actually the expression he used was i'm hurting where he was on the floor and he was being hit savagery with buttons by these policemen pseudo policemen and of course immediately within next half hour there was a spontaneous citizens demonstration on the street and then the police attacked them and this this has been happening throughout throughout the country so it's a clear attempt by the government to provoke violence in order to change the conversation um so you know authoritarianism for the purposes of ensuring that there is no debate on what is really going on with the pandemic the collapsing economy from that i want to make a leap from the very micro from this piazza in nezmi in in Athens to the macro european economy you probably haven't most of our viewers comrades friends who are watching have not seen this but we've had some truly catastrophic news from the european central banks um database investment investment in europe during 2020 fell by 50 percent 50 percent lower investment that has never happened in the history of capitalism anywhere in the world a drop in investment by 50 percent and that is important because it's not a drop in consumption you know consumption you cannot buy stuff today you buy tomorrow consumption can can recover quickly but when for a whole year investment goes down by 50 percent the effects of that the scarring that that causes is long term so long term the european union is going to come out weaker jobs will not be created or will be destroyed we are falling behind um you know china the united states india africa everyone and that is going to have how do i connect this to the sins in Athens low investment means more deflationary forces it means more discontent more discontent requires greater doses of authoritarianism in order to impose the the policies of the deep state of the european union and of the oligarchy so it does not go well the falling investment uh from a perspective of democracy and and freedom and fighting authoritarianism exactly the opposite now you heard that recently or bans party has dropped out of the european people's party um well don't be so quick to celebrate because urban is now his party a catalyst or seems to be a catalyst for the coming together of different ultra-right groups within europe because remember the polish right wing and the french le pen national front uh or the assembly whatever they call themselves and salvini were not part of the same thing and fraterri and our band seems to be the catalyst that is bringing them together if that happens the ultra right is going to be the second largest block in the european parliament uh let's wait and see but that is also consistent with the whole point about authoritarianism on the back of fiasco in macroeconomic management pandemic management um is creating uh a brief comment on germany because juliana and claudia mentioned it look merkel merkel's demise was always going to create instability political instability and jostling for position because you know whenever a leader like merkel after ten twelve years of dominance is about to withdraw to to to to to delete the chance to free you were going to have this but what is now what is combining with her departure is a breakdown in a consensus in Germany, a right-wing social democratic consensus, this grand coalition consensus. And from where I'm standing, I think that the FDP is going to make some inroads and that is going to change the calculation for the next government. This is probably going to be a coalition between the Christian Democrats, the FDP and the Greens. And this is a long discussion, but I think this is going to be even more detrimental to the prospects of a progressive Green New Deal for Europe and for political liberalization and political union across Europe. Now, very briefly, to finish off with three countries. I'll start with Spain and Catalonia. The removal of the parliamentary immunity of the Catalan nationalists, Puigdemont for one, is another blot on the landscape. It is remarkable that we still have political prisoners in Spain, even if you hate the idea of Catalan independence. Even if you load it, even if you really are against any kind of independence, Catalan independence, Scottish independence, Bavarian independence, the idea that you imprison people because they are running a campaign and they even have a referendum which some may think it was illegitimate. Okay, so what if it is illegitimate? Don't count, don't make it count. You cannot put people in prison because they held a referendum. Whether you think that it is constitutional or not, the idea of sedition in a European democracy is preposterous. There is no such thing as sedition in a democracy. You cannot advocate for anything you want. And especially if you have the support of a majority of the people in Catalonia trying to change their mind, but to put these people in prison and then to have the European Union saying this is not a European issue. The oppression of political dissent in Spain is a European issue. If you say it to the Spaniards and to the Catalans that it is not an issue that you have political prisoners in Spain, you are giving Orban every reason to imprison people for political beliefs. And what are you going to say to him that it is a European issue? He'll turn around and say, well, you've got political prisoners in Spain. The people I put in prison were seditious towards the Constitution. And Orban has a real majority in Hungary. Now, what we should be arguing for is that it doesn't matter what the majority thinks, that the majority does not have the right to imprison its political opponents, the minority. And two more countries that will fall in my purview are France and Italy. I shall start with France. Comrades, you have a big problem. It seems that Macron and Le Pen are going to be contesting the next presidential election, the second round. And we have a problem. Because yet again, we will have a dilemma. Do we follow an abstentionist stance where we say, you know, they're both two sides of the same coin and, you know, Le Pen represents the neo-fascist right, the racist right. Macron is representing a liberal radical center that is embracing radical racism as they have done and as he has done recently with Islam or Gauchyism and all that. Or do we say, well, one is more fascist than the other. So, you know, we do this and support Macron in the second round. I'm not saying that we should decide now, but this is a serious debate that we must have as part of DiEM25's internal debates. Finally, some of you may have noticed, but the other day I just couldn't stand. I couldn't stand. I just could not hold on. And I could not contain myself. And I tweeted when I read the remarkable news that the new Prime Minister of Italy, ex-Goldman Sachs, employed, gave a contract to McKinsey in search of advice on how to distribute the recovery fund money in Italy. And I don't remember exactly the words I used in the tweet, but apparently it was a tweet that was very much discussed in Italy because I said, oh, so, you know, it's sad to hear that PM Draghi has employed McKinsey to help reorganize or organize the spending of recovery fund monies. What next? Employ the mafia to help him organize the Ministry of Justice.  I was threatened. I received many threatening letters. My life was threatened by some people in Italy. I was threatened with a legal suit against me for having defamed Draghi and the Italian constitutional order by likening McKinsey with the mafia. I'm sorry. McKinsey is worse than the mafia. Have you noticed what they have just been charged in the United States? They were given a fine of 600 million by the American government for having peddled drugs effectively, for having taken part in the peddling of opiates that cost the life to 450,000 Americans. And if you read the advice that McKinsey gave to those companies, to the pharmaceutical companies pushing those opiates, it is mafia style. It is precisely, I mean, the mafia one are not as sophisticated as McKinsey. That's why I'm saying that they're far worse. So that's what Italian democracy has come down to. The political system has not managed to produce a prime minister through the electoral system. So you take an ex Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs is a criminal organization. They should have all been put in jail in 2008 for crimes against logic, financial stability and human beings. There's no doubt about that. Even people who work in Goldman Sachs agree with what I'm saying. So you have an ex Goldman Sachs employee who then became the president of the European Central Bank, shut down our banks in 2015 here in Greece in order to blackmail the Greek people to accept another credit card on behalf of creditors that didn't want their money back. They just wanted to plunder this country. So this guy employs McKinsey that that pushes in the United States to help organize their recovery fund disbursement. That's what Europe has come to. And this is how I end. Thanks, Yanis. A lot to unpack there. McKinsey, the mafia, Catalonian independence. Who would like to respond? Rosemary. I'd like to go back to a phrase that struck me that Juliana used. She talked about such a huge mismanagement of COVID, but I don't even recognize the structures. They're not German structures. And I have to tell her that I have exactly the identical response in the UK and that we're not alone. I think millions of people are struggling to recognize the structures of decision making that are beginning to be exposed in this period. And I'm particularly grateful to Yanis for talking such a lot of sense. This is an unusual event on any questions in the UK, but he talked a lot of sense on our any questions. And in particular, about the travesty of 37 billion pounds being spent on a completely useless circuit, track and trace system, and only 1% offered as a rise for the NHS workers that we've all been clapping assiduously on the streets. There's not even a rise. It doesn't cover inflation. So under these circumstances, we are dealing with commonalities. And for people, it's really difficult to see where the alternative is. And I take to heart very much Yanis' question about what on earth we're going to do when Macron and Le Pen are up against each other in France. This is a question searching for the alternatives. And how can we construct those? But I want to finish really by returning to the waiver of parliamentary immunity for the Catalan MEP. For me, this is part of a degradation of democracy that is happening all too fast around us. What on earth is the plenary of the European Parliament doing, choosing which votes it's going to honour and which votes it's not going to honour in the European polity? This is disgraceful. And it's quite clear that it is on the back of Spanish waging of lawfare against political dissent in Spain. And so I think this is an appalling situation. For me, it smacks very much of a general degradation of democracy. There used to be a time when democracies were assessed by the litmus paper of how majorities treated the minorities. And here we're even talking about people who've succeeded in capturing a majority of votes not being allowed to take elective office in Spain and now not being allowed to have parliamentary immunity from the imprisonment and all the rest that's going on in their country. So for me, this is a reminder of what happened to us under Brexit when a large minority was just carved out of the polity and we were left with the lever, hard lever politics as the will of the people everyone else was ignored. This is happening in country after country after country. To defend democracy today, we really are going to have to get a lot more nimble and articulate about all these events. Thank you. Thank you, Reg. We're coming up to quarter two as that concludes the livestream part of our coordinating meeting. Thank you. Thank you for watching you out there. Thank you for bearing with us through the hiccups. See you.


What kind of world do I want to live in? I think about this question a lot. For our generation and for specifically my group of people, which is refugees, the circumstances might dismantle any vision of the future that we have. You're trying to rebuild, you're trying to make a future for yourself and then the climate-related disaster comes and you start again.  The first step to understand is that we're all a part of it. None of us are going to be left out by the crisis. We're at a stage where if we don't act now, really there won't be very much left. There are generations that will never see certain things that we grew up seeing in real life. We have to start treating this like the emergency it is to achieve the 17 sustainable development goals. We have to go from an intention to a serious commitment. Business leaders really need to rethink how they conduct their business and invest in creating systems that are climate-friendly. The action I would like to see is accountability. Structures being put in place where countries aren't just asked to do something but they're kept accountable to the decisions that they make. There has to be that strong collaboration between government, between corporations, between youth activists to drive change forward. The world I would want to live in is a world where imagining the future is not a privilege. I want to live in a world where people do not give up on hope. Hope that a positive change is possible. The fact that you're listening today means that you are willing to make a change. Hello everyone. My name is Jane Nelson and it is my very great pleasure to welcome our panelists and our viewers to this important discussion on galvanizing country-led pathways for food, which we're having the day before the United Nations hosts its first ever Food Systems Summit, where the international community will be coming together around a shared agenda of delivering food systems that are healthy for people and healthy for the planet. The leadership challenge we all face is clear. It's compelling and it's urgent. As United Nations Secretary General said yesterday, we face the greatest cascade of crises in our lifetime. The climate crisis, the COVID-19 crisis, the crisis of growing conflict and inequality, and there can be absolutely no doubt that one of the most important pathways for tackling these crises is strengthening our food systems and ensuring that our food systems are more inclusive, that they're more sustainable, more resilient, and more healthy and nutritious. What type of bold action is needed to strengthen our food systems? In the lead-up to the Food Systems Summit, an enormous amount of work has been done around the world, including over 1,500 national food systems dialogues that have happened at national and local places around the globe, bringing together policymakers, business leaders, consumers, farmers, youth activists, community organizers, around the question of what type of future do we want for food systems? And I think one of the strongest messages that has come out of all the preparation is the critical importance of country-level leadership, country priority setting and country pathways, owned very much by national governments but with all the other stakeholders around the table as part of the agenda. And as of this morning, 93 countries have released their own specific pathways for their view of the transformation of their food system. And although each pathway is unique, one of the common themes through all of them is the crucial importance of new models of partnership and coalitions in order to drive more sustainable, resilient and inclusive, unhealthy and nutritious food systems. And it's those types of partnerships that we're going to be focusing on in our panel discussion. One example of such a partnership is the Food Action Alliance, which is an initiative that brings together public and private partners both globally and at the level of specific countries and value chains and flagship initiatives aiming to mobilize resources, finances and coordination to make these initiatives more effective. And just as weak as part of the Sustainable Development Impact Summit, the Food Action Alliance has launched a new report about multi-stakeholder coalitions for food systems transformation drawing on over 10 years of experience of some of the things that work and what doesn't work at the country level and a call to action for new models of partnership at the country level. And we have a fantastic group of panelists to share with us their priorities and examples of country-led food transformation. First of all, Dr. Agnes Kalibata, who is the Special Envoy for the UN Food Systems Summit. Secondly, His Excellency, the Minister of Agriculture from Colombia, Mr. Rodolfo Zea, Mr. Gilbert Humbu, who is the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD. Good to have you with us, Gilbert. Pilar Cruz, the Chief Sustainability Officer at Cargill, and Jay Shroff, the CEO of UPL. So thank you all for being with us today. Before we dive into the panel, I also have pleasure in introducing His Excellency, the Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam, Mr. Pham Binh Minh, who will make some opening keynote remarks. Over to him. Ladies and gentlemen, I thank the World Economic Forum for inviting me to address this summit. As the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change have exacerbated the weakness and shortcomings in the global food system, countries need to strengthen partnership to promote the sustainability and adaptability of national food systems in the new norm. Sustainable agriculture and food security are among the pillars of Vietnam's socio-economic development strategy for 2021 to 2030, in which we privatise the development of eco-farming, large-scale high-tech, low-emission and climate-resilient agriculture. And we are committed to the transition to a transparent, accountable and sustainable food system. For further governising countries led pathways to food, I wish to propose the following areas of cooperation. First, we must maintain stable and seamless every country's supply chains globally. Countries need to minimise unnecessary barriers to food production and export, enhance value chain connectivity, promote e-commerce, reform the system of origin traceability, logistics, transport and quality control. Vietnam wishes to collaborate with all stakeholders to promote agriculture and fishery exports, thus moving Vietnam upward in the regional and global agricultural supply chains. Second, the green and digital transformation of agriculture is an urgent need. Therefore, financial, technological and capacity-building assistance for developing countries is critical for the transition to more sustainable and climate-resilient food system. Vietnam stands ready to become a food innovation centre in Asia and we will continue to actively join initiatives on innovation, digital transformation and environmental protections in the agricultural sector. Third, it is imperative to further strengthen platforms for partnership and cooperation in sustainable agriculture and encourage the participation and support of all actors, particularly through PPP projects. Vietnam is among the original members of the partnership for sustainable agriculture within the web, a partnership that could serve to be a model, a preference in building partnerships in this area. Fourth, given the strong urgency of containing the pandemic and promoting sustainable recovery, we stress the importance of equitable access to vaccines. The international community should also accelerate corporations in the manufacturing of vaccines and treatment drugs in this regard. Vietnam is committed to working closely with partners around the world in the fight against COVID-19 and on the part towards sustainable and inclusive recovery, including green and sustainable agriculture. Thank you. Thank you very much to His Excellency and I think a very, very important connection he made there between sustainable agriculture and food security on the one hand and effective public health interventions, specifically in his case vaccines, but public health and nutrition on the other hand. And the link also and crucial importance of digital platforms to help us as well. I'd like to now start Dr. Kali Bhatta with you and first of all just acknowledge and say thank you for your remarkable leadership over many, many years, but particularly your leadership in the lead up to the UN Food Systems Summit. This obviously is an incredible opportunity to put food much more at the center as a priority for the sustainable development goals. And it would be great if you could get us going sort of sharing what your top priorities are, particularly at the country level for the summit. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you today and really thank you for working this journey with us coming this far. We have one day to go to the summit so we are really excited.  I don't know if it's just me. Okay, can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? It's better, yes. Okay, is that better? Very good. So I was again appreciating the support we've got from all of you and coming this far and going straight to the very question you're asking, how do we ensure that we come through? I think we've seen a number of things. And we've been working on ensuring that there's a shift in the mindset that we stop looking at food and food systems from a perspective of ending hunger, dealing with diets, the challenge of diets or even dealing with the challenge of climate change that we actually look at food in the totality that it presents itself as a system and start working like that. So that has been a major focus of the work we are doing. The next bit is of course ambition. Is it possible to actually raise ambition as we work with the food system to ensure that we can see the change we want to see? And this has been captured in what we are calling the means of implementation when it comes to how we would deliver against food systems. It looks at how we mobilize finances. It looks at how those finances would transform into political instruments or political policy frameworks that get implemented. But it also looks at how we are ready to take on innovation. How do we innovate and continue sharing that we are using innovation to change how we move, how we go forward. And then the last two things would be around inclusivity. How do we ensure that everything we are doing, we are coordinating well across sectors, but also we are bringing in all stakeholders because they have something to offer. And then how do we build partnerships, we started with the whole coalition, all the coalition we are talking about is a recognition that no single partner can deliver on this alone, that we need to come together around areas that are very critical to us delivering against the SDGs and against an improved or transforming food system, that we need to come together on those areas. So if we can form partnerships that ensure that we are coming through together in areas where individual countries, individual nations can't do it alone, then we will possibly be able to bend the curve that we've been looking to bend in this food system transition that we are looking for. Dr. Karle Barton, I think your point, particularly about inclusivity, how are we much more intentional in both policymaking on the business side as well, to be clear who are the stakeholders, who are the most vulnerable, both producers, farmers, consumers, long food value chains, and how do they have a voice at a place at the table as we build these partnerships and policy priorities. And coming to public policy priorities, I'd like to bring in now, His Excellency, the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Zea, Columbia, you and your colleagues have already demonstrated great leadership of national priority setting around food systems, and it would be great to sort of hear your insights on what are some of the actions you've taken at the country level and what do you see as some of the priorities. And to our viewers, the Minister will be sharing his comments in Spanish and translation should be available on your screens. Your Excellency, over to you. Well, thank you very much. A cordial greeting to all the colleagues and people who are joining us on this panel and who are watching us. From Columbia, we have made a policy on food security starting from the regions. For that, the Interceptorial Commission on Food Security and Nutrition, CISAN, has been established and we are transmitting a law that allows food security to be also food sovereignty. What does it consist of? What is consumed in the regions of Columbia is what people are used to historically consume and through research and science, as it has been working with the Biodiversity Seat Alliance, and also with Agrosavia, to fortify these foods in a natural and organic way so that people can improve their food with what they are used to historically consume. It has also included rural women and we have programs like Pacific opportunities in the Colombian Pacific where we are supporting the productive chain of these women to have quality food. All of this in search of improving the country in the future in productivity but in a sustainable way with the environment. And for that, today we have alliances with the Ministry of Environment to be able to produce and preserve and be able to meet the goals of President Iván Duque to reduce greenhouse gas in 51% to 20% to 30%. To be able to plant 180 million trees and to reach 180,000 hectares with wild pastoral systems and sustainable regenerative livestock that can turn livestock in Colombia into an activity that can capture CO2. In that way, we work in productivity with technology, research and science to improve the food of the Colombians and be able to reach the world. Thank you very much, Your Excellency. I think you have four sort of very, very strong messages that I think align with Dr. Calabata's there. First of all, again, this message of inclusion and your example of the inclusion of rural women in some of your initiatives. Secondly, the importance of science and data and technology and really strengthening the capabilities of national level research institutions and their links with each other. Thirdly, your point about both quality food but also food diversity and really recognizing local foods, local traditions and applauding and supporting those. And then, fourthly, your point about policy coordination and the fact that you were working with your colleagues in the Environment Department and I know also in the Ministry of Economics that we have more integration at the government level across different industries around food. So thank you for highlighting, I think, those important messages. And I would like to now move from a government perspective to our two business colleagues and bring in another wonderful Colombian, Pilar. As I mentioned earlier, the Chief Sustainability Officer at Cargill. Pilar, from your perspective as a global food company but operating obviously in many countries, most countries around the world, is the priorities for transforming food systems at the country level. So Jane, first of all, thank you for the opportunity to participate in this event. We are delighted to be here with all of you today. And yes, we believe that the greatest opportunity to drive a more sustainable food system starts right there where our food system begins and that is the farm and the farmer. We know that agriculture can be a force for good. Cargill believes that agriculture and agriculture is how we are going to address climate change, protect the planet and feed a growing population in a safe, sustainable and responsible way. So how are we doing this? Let's look at what is happening within the agricultural sector across North America where thousands of farmers and producers are adopting more sustainable practices that benefit life above and below the Earth's surface. Let's look at regenerative agriculture as an example where farmers eliminate tillage or add cover crops to their land. Not only they improve their yields, but they also become more efficient and productive, which at the end of the day we all know it brings significant economic value to the farm. In addition to that, they perceive significant sustainability benefits like capturing carbon in the soil. The long-term benefits are significant including improving the fertility of the land for future growing seasons. And this is why Cargill is partnering with farmers to bring these practices to 10 million acres in North America by 2030. But I talked about above and below the land. So how does it work above the land? Across areas like in the southern Great Plains in North America, which is responsible for about a third of the beef production in the U.S., ratchets are also rotating grazing practices to improve and promote biodiversity and enhance the health of the soy and hold carbon in the soil. So for Cargill, it all begins right there with the farmer. We are also working with partners such as WWF and TNC and customers like Walmart, McDonald's and Cisco. And we are also partnering with farmers replicating these practices and improving the sustainability of the beef supply chain all the way from the farm to the restaurant. And in summary, I think we have mentioned this before, that no single entity or government is going to solve our food system challenges alone. We in our company believe that collaboration is a must amongst all of us who are joining this call and this event today. But also we are pleased to be a member of the Food Action Alliance. We believe this collective effort is going to drive transformation within the food system faster and at a scale. And my last comment, Jane, only by working together with farmers at the center, is to build a global food system that is inclusive, sustainable and resilient. Well, thank you. Thank you for that, Pilar. And I think, again, that message of inclusion coming through so strongly, includes the farmers, but also I think two of the most interesting partnership models at the country level for companies is with non-profit organizations, both food non-profits, environmental organizations, humanitarian organizations, to reach particularly the most vulnerable rural communities and vulnerable consumers, but also business-to-business partnerships. We talk a lot about public-private partnerships with these business-to-business partnerships with other food companies, but also with banks and technology companies, et cetera, which you touched on there. And I think a key message for us to take away. And a good segue to you, to you, Jane, and you and your colleagues and your team at UPL have just been incredible chunks now on strengthening food systems at the national level. Yes. Thank you, Jane. Thank you. Pleasure to be here and see everyone. And good luck for the meeting this week. At UPL, we believe in the fact that farmers are a key source of enablement for the world. And I think that by by rewarding and recognizing the farmer at the center, as my panelist, Lahr said, you can drive the biggest amount of impact towards decarbonizing the world. Today, we are incentivizing large industrial companies by rewarding them for being sustainable. And I think we need to relook at the amount of incentive and reward and recognition we are giving to the smallest farmers, smallholder farmers to motivate them to change practices, to improve practices and to be regenerated. This is really an exciting journey at UPL. We have been working on technologies to be able to enable them. And we believe that together with the governments, organizations, NGOs and other private sector, I think if we are able to incentivize and reward the smallholder farmers, it is unfortunate that most people eat three times a day. And the people supplying the food for us are the poorest in the world. This is an irony that needs to be sorted out. And we can't have the farmers who are actually the biggest industrial base being the poorest people. So it's very important. I love the agenda. I love the subjects. I think working together with the governments, I think Agnes is doing an amazing job of raising awareness for Africa, for India. What we expect as a private sector is that the governments agree on the priorities on value chains. Vietnam is an amazing example of a country which has been able to drive transformation of various value chains and become a world leader. Coffee, I think cashew, fish exports. They've just done an amazing job by focusing creating the right infrastructure training needs because a farmer needs a value chain for processing and all those kind of things. And if we can get various countries and to focus on their priorities, we should be able to deliver results much, much faster. The Food Action Alliance is an amazing initiative and we are very happy to be part of that and supported to really transform the resilience of the small world of farmers. And it's such an important subject and we, with a little bit of incentive and reward, we can really transform the carbon footprint of the world and I think this is the easiest way to do it. Thank you. Absolutely, Noel. Thank you. I think you really want to reiterate and reinforce your comment about incentives. And it goes back to Agnes talking in the beginning also. There are so many ways to engage mindsets and behaviors and one of the ways to do that is incentives. And I think particularly for small-holder farmers what can governments do to improve market incentives for large companies to be more inclusive and sustainable and then what can large companies do who are working with small-holder farmers to provide much, much sort of stronger incentives for as you say a production that's sustainable and also incentives for more nutritious food. So thank you for that and a good segue to President Hung Bao. You and your team again have played a remarkable leadership role for many, many years but very much in the lead up to the summit and as we go through the summit and going forward IFAD and FAO and World Food Program will be playing a crucial role in determining the outcomes of the summit. And so it would be great to get your priorities on what you think is particularly important at the country level. Thank you so much. First of all, great to see you once again. I mean, for us all of that said and done tomorrow after the summit I consider that the real beginning all we have done is what we call in Italy the aperitivo we are just preparing the ground the real thing will start as you mentioned in your introductory remark the leadership that we have from the country through the pathway and others so one of the key role that the Rome based agencies, IFAD, WFP, FAO and again with other UN agencies and development partners is to ensure that we adjust our support programs to the countries in moving ahead with their pathways. Secondly, it's going to be important for us to have a coordinated approach and harmonized approach. Right now we feel and which is good news the momentum we have created together a very high level of momentum and there's so many initiatives so it is going to be important for us to ensure that there is some kind of a coordinated way of addressing the different dimension for the issue both from food security perspective from climate change perspective and from the economic perspective. My next point is going to be quite critical and then maybe I'm looking at specifically IFAD angle. Let's keep in mind that when we start this whole story of the food systems not only is a way to really put together from the small scale producers to the commercial food system companies to ensure that these not only leaders to better nutritious food and fighting hunger but also to provide minimum decent living income for those small scale producers and therefore that's going to be quite critical. How do we ensure that these coffee producers in Colombia at the end of the chain he or she has that minimum income to the work that and they are put there at the beginning at the production level. It does also include that not only we just link them up with the commercial farmers is also bringing them also as small scale producers as SMEs to do a minimum transformation so to be able to add value to what they are producing and my last point will be linked to the the climate change dimension we know that climate change particularly the adaptation level is going to be crucial and therefore having ways to provide the small scale producers in ensuring that they are better equipped to face the climate change and including extreme weather condition insurance is what we want to be working with the government on the country level. The last very last point if I may that they want to be of course the global engagement initiative that hopefully will continue and we have to encourage that and the national pathway at the national level and the different the scientists and all different initiative will go on. So what they are be a colleague together with other UN colleague we want to be the glue between these different parties so a coordinating matter where we should be able also to report back not only to the secretary general and the deputy secretary general in New York but also for us to report back to the high level political forum every year or every two years in New York so to ensure that there is a sense of accountability and a momentum being kept over the coming years to increase the chance of achieving SDG 1 and 2 by 2030. Over to you. Great thank you thank you thank you very much Gilbert. And one quick added question there what role do you see for the development banks, the world bank the regional development banks partnering with you on the the means of implementation. Yeah this is going to be if you look at what the one thing that if I was doing we are together with the French Agence Facilier de Blochement and here in Italy because of the positive press theory we trying to bring together the development partner the public development bank around the world to really create a platform so we can put all our effort together to create a greater synergy in providing finance to this specifically to the rural community to the small scale producer which is one. Secondly globally as a follow up on the full system summit. At the end of the day the financing is not the only issue let's be very clear but financing is an essential dimension we all know it so we're going to need the financial institutions the world bank of this world the IMF of this world the regional development banks trying to also come with different innovation in financing that can be made available to the different initiatives preferably at the country level but also the research dimension so that the result of the research and the scientific perspective the result of those work can be brought and scale up at the country at the country office level and that we need the financial institutions so yes it's a first of all the public development bank that we are working on but we see this bigger than just the public development bank but the whole financial institution that we need to step up their engagement and their involvement in providing innovative financing particularly to the rural world to lift up out of poverty and I think one key message I want to pull out from your comments amongst many great points is about living wage and living income and I think you're talking about in the context of farmers I think consumers as well I think one of our biggest challenges as a global community is to realize that if households do not have a living income or living wage the ability to feed their families in any nutritious healthy way is almost impossible and so in addition to sort of having social safety nets in times of crisis like we're currently going through I think getting business and governments working together on much more urgency on living wages and living income and the ILO and other UN agencies coming in on that is very important as well both for farmers and consumers so thank you all very very much for highlighting your priorities I think as we sort of come into starting to close up here there's sort of five key themes sort of coming through to me at the what's important at the country level first is this overarching message of inclusion and particularly governments and business leaders and large financial institutions being very intentional about inclusion of particularly rural communities small holder farmers, low income consumers the most vulnerable people that their priorities are addressed secondly the importance of policy coordination both between governments but between ministries within governments as the minister of agriculture shared with us and thirdly this critical importance of evidence based data analysis data collection, science, technology national research institutions and capabilities and fourthly the enormous enabler of digitization and your digital platforms and then fifth I think all of you in different ways have touched on finance and incentives and you're finding both innovative insurance mechanisms savings mechanisms etc as well as mobilizing multi-billion dollar finance for infrastructure so the financial innovation being obviously a key element as well so as we sort of move towards closing I'd like to ask each of you just to reflect obviously there are numerous priorities that you're all juggling with in your leadership roles but what would be one major commitment as we sort of move into the the UN food system summit tomorrow with a focus on these country-led priority setting, country-led pathways what would be one or two major commitments for you and your institution Gilbert can I come back to you to start with you on your major commitment as we as we lead into the into the summit that's a tricky question we have so many things that we want to commit ourselves to that it's difficult to make the major one but clearly for me is to be able to redirect our financing particularly we start in a new cycle in next January to ensure that we redirect our financing to a line behind the country's pathway secondly helping the countries to scale up the investment that are now at the country level so to be able to have a greater impact on the different coalitions that they are focusing in their pathways and what you sort of said earlier about public banks but also public pension funds and others at the country level how do we mobilize not just global finance but national resources and finance at the country level thank you Your Excellency Minister Zia can I come to you on what would be some of the major commitments and priorities for you and your colleagues we have the greenhouse gas emissions in a 51% for that today we have production chains such as palm trees, cacao, coffee, rice and the winery that have a commitment of zero deforestation additionally we are creating incentives and financing to make green products in agriculture and rural development and in the same way we are promoting green seeds to be able to be competitive in exportations to the world Thank you Again very important priorities and I'll just come back to you as well and I hope every government around the world can sort of follow your model of this inter ministerial cooperation around the food and so thank you for your leadership Pilar coming to you some key commitments from your side Thank you Jane From a Cargill perspective our commitment is to those who enable our food system more specifically the farmers and their communities we believe that we have to empower local farmers and communities to create their own food system to build economic opportunity and feed a growing population This is briefly an excellent example of how Cargill is doing this and it's our partnership with the hatching hope initiative and we have a goal to improve the livelihoods of about 100 million people around the world through the power of poultry farming we have an excellent example of a young Indian woman Maltilata Naik who is the primary earner in her family her farm wasn't doing well and she saw an excellent opportunity to come to hatching hope for support, for training for things like proper housing vaccinations and as a result of this the support she got from hatching hope and Cargill she was able to more than quadruple the size of the farm there are many many women like Maltilata around the world and we know that when they are empowered we strengthen local economies and we remove some of the vulnerabilities and inequalities in the food system and I know we can do this reminding us that 100 million farmers it's 100 million individual farmers and their households and individual stories, individual experiences individual challenges and focusing on that as well as the ambitious numbers so thank you for reminding us of that importance Jay over to you Thank you we are very excited about the project which we are doing in India about 5 million acres of rice farmers burn that crop because they don't have time to rotate the crop we've committed to end the crop burn we call it end the crop burn in the next three years so 5 million acres will stop this year it's the first year we launched the initiative where we are offering free service to use the enzyme to stop the farmers from crop burning it's a free service 500,000 acres will not burn this year and we are excited for almost 5 million acres in the next three years so it's a very exciting project we have a lot of commitment from other food companies and to classify and give traceability to the food produced by these farmers to be able to be differentiated and called sustainably grown it's a very exciting initiative a lot of support we are also doing something quite innovative there citizens of Delhi who suffer the impact of the crop burn can contribute online to individual farmers and sort of give them this incentive not to burn and to reward them in a small way it's not a major financial commitment but just increases the interaction between families living in Delhi and around contribute to these farmers who are changing their practices and sacrificing for a better environment back to one of Agnes's opening comments on the need to change mindsets we have to find more creative ways to link the producers and farmers with end consumers and the people who are consuming the food and cities so thank you for that example and I think also a great example of bringing together life science technology digital technology and financial technology with capability building at the level of the farmer you as a large company partnering with others can do so thank you and finally Agnes back to you with some closing comments what will you feel at the end of tomorrow in terms of major commitment and priority going forward thank you I was prepared to answer the same question you asked everybody else so I'm definitely looking to first of all closing on that ensuring that tomorrow we have a great summit all of us and we are already beginning on a very good note with the commitment from the US government yesterday of 10 billion dollars to commit to end to hunger but also then with the commitment from private sector yesterday of 345 million under the leadership of Lawrence Haddad that the private sector is putting on the table so if we continue with that tone I'm just thinking that if 10 more countries came forward the way the US did we would have the budget we need to end hunger in the next 10 years so really a very good start in addition to that of course is working with the RBS to ensure that we transition this work to the RBS and make sure that they can continue and then I go back to my day job which day job is going to be to ensuring that the commitments that the African countries have made in their pathways can be translated into investment plans and I'm focused on making sure that in the next two years at least we have investment plans from about 30 countries that are ready to go that give institutions like IFA the place to invest money and an institution like GESHA a place to invest their money so I'm excited to see to take this whole perspective of the summit back to the continent and get to work Great, well thank you so much Agnes and thank you again for your truly remarkable leadership and to all of you for your leadership and I think a very strong call to action there for all of us how do governments make specific time bound pledges and commitments, how can we get more companies to pledge whether it's a zero hunger pledge or other pledges and what can each of us do as individuals to support non-profit organizations and other initiatives that are focused on making food systems more inclusive and sustainable and resilient and nutritious and healthy and I think as we move forward three sort of closing comments for me at the country level it's absolutely clear that country-led leadership is where we need to go and I sort of take away three themes one investment plans how do we take these commitments into very specific national investment plans led by ministers like minister Dao and his colleagues in each country but working with business working with local pension funds development banks etc on how to implement those investment plans in specific value chains that are priorities that are identified at the country level secondly clearly innovation and we've had great examples here innovation and policy engagement and cross ministerial cooperation innovation and financing mechanisms innovation in technologies and very much innovation in partnership building and innovation in business models and taking an innovation mindset and the concept of innovation hubs forward together with sort of national level investment plans and priorities I think is the second key theme that has come through in many months but also today and then thirdly very importantly the message of inclusion and being so intentional around including both farmers and consumers particularly remote rural communities lower income farmers and consumers and the most vulnerable in any focus on building more sustainable and resilient and healthy food systems so country level investment plans innovation and the concept of innovation hubs and very very sort of strong focus on inclusion so thank you and I think it's very exciting the fact we've got 63 countries who have already put forward pathways so at least 63 investment plans already in the making and look forward to taking it together is it more than 63 already? 93 93 thank you thank you Agnes 93 countries and counting and many pledges coming from companies as well so thank you very very much to our panelists and I'd like to now hand over to Sean DeClean from the World Economic Forum to close us off Sean Thank you very much as a member of the Executive Committee of the World Economic Forum on whose behalf I just would like to thank the moderator Jay Nelson who together with a fantastic panel today I just think really brought this to life so well done I mean what the panel at least for me really articulated is what we can definitely expect from the summit is a united message from countries on their rapidly adopting a food systems approach at the individual country level and how important it's going to be for the international community moving forward to be supporting those country pathways for food system transformation so well done and very energetic and powerful message that came through and the forum along with the Food Action Alliance and other coalitions for action is just very keen to support this process offering its platform for leaders from all sectors from business government civil society international organizations as a scale accelerator in support of food systems transformation so I hope everyone got as much out of this panel today as I did but thank you very much


So this week one of the big initiatives that I reported on was the results of our Go Time initiative. We had a goal of $150 million of savings in the first year. We actually exceeded that. We had over $156 million in savings. And we did that throughout the Commonwealth. Every agency and department contributed. I stood with employees on Monday in the Capitol Rotunda to announce this. And it's a really big deal because this is part of what we have to do. I have a $500 million goal to reach $500 million total savings by the year 2020. And I think we're going to do it. This week I visited two businesses, brandyourself.com in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and FedEx in the Lehigh Valley. Both organizations benefited from the Commonwealth helping them come to Pennsylvania. But more than that, they were attracted by the quality of life in Pennsylvania, the business climate, the talent that exists here. They love Pennsylvania and it was refreshing, reaffirming to visit with them and learn about how many good things they saw in Pennsylvania. This week also spent time focused on the opioid crisis and went to visit four Centers of Excellence. As you know, I got $15 million in the budget which leveraged another $5.4 million from the feds. We opened 20 Centers of Excellence and between now and the end of January we hope to open more Centers of Excellence which will help people navigate their way through the healthcare system to treat the substance use disorder that they're suffering from. This is a bipartisan thing. Republicans and Democrats, senators and representatives are supportive of this and I know we're going to do a great thing in the special session coming up later this year.


My friends welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers blue plan It's Saturday, so it's grocery haul day I have a fun grocery haul for you lots of new food finds a really exciting video coming your way next week And I went to both Target and Trader Joe's so if you're excited for another grocery haul give this video a big Huge thumbs up it means a lot to me and lets me know that you guys love these grocery hauls Also, don't forget if you're new or you're not yet subscribed hit the little subscribe button and the bell next to it So you're notified whenever new videos are uploaded Saturday is always grocery haul day, so you definitely don't want to miss out Check out the description box for my newly released meal planner. 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So without further ado you guys We have a really fun grocery haul an amazing amazing meal plan and meal prep. So let's jump in So here is this week's grocery haul. I went to both target and trader joes I also picked up quite a few non-food things that I thought I would show you And lots and lots of new food finds and special purchases for a special video coming your way next week So let's jump into the grocery haul first. I grabbed these dave's killer bread classic english muffins This is for a special what I eat in a day video coming next week. That's a collab with another youtuber We're doing a special special what I eat in a day So stay tuned for that on wednesday and I needed these english muffins for that I liked these because they actually have a good amount of protein and fiber and whole grains Which was a better option than some of the other lighter english muffins 3 12 packs of diet coke for troy no explanation needed Like I said quite a few non-food things. This is the shampoo that troy uses the head and shoulders green apple And then this is his hairspray.  This is the best face wash ever It gets my face so clean and I think it's because it is a foaming wash. It really works very well As you saw we have a helper for this week's grocery haul And then at trader joe's this Mediterranean style orzo pasta salad with spinach and sundried tomatoes This looks really delicious. I've never purchased this. This is for that collaboration video Organic strawberries for the video as well as for some fruits for the week Troy is off on medical leave. He's having some issues with his legs Some of his old medical issues are returning So he's off for about a month or so and he wanted his favorite pasta salad So I picked up two small blocks of sharp cheddar cheese for that Red enchilada sauce mild for a dinner recipe and then a big huge can of organic crushed tomatoes Also for a dinner recipe for the collab. I needed turkey sausage patties. I wasn't able to find those So I picked up the links and I will just make do with these for the breakfast recipe. Believe it or not I've never tried pocky and these aren't too bad calorie and point wise and the chocolate banana It got me and I thought that this would be just a kind of a fun treat to have on hand sliced olives for Troy's salad the pasta salad that he is obsessed with And target didn't have a lot of options when it came to protein shakes that didn't have carrageenan or really really bad ingredients So I found this grass-fed protein non-gmo vanilla garden of life sport with 26 grams of protein One gram of sugar when I'm working out on Tuesday nights at jazzercise I find that I get hungry before class But I don't want to eat much because then it's just heavy on my stomach So I thought that these protein shakes would come in handy for Tuesday nights and even after class sometimes I'm just not hungry enough to eat a dinner dinner and this would be great for after the workout as well So I picked up just the four pack. We'll give these a try. I'll definitely let you guys know what I think The good and gather mandarin orange sauce. This is for a dinner recipe in place of hoisin sauce They only had one brand of hoisin sauce and it was five dollars for a jar I'm not going to pay that so I picked this up in place of that And I thought that this is sweet just like hoisin so it should be a really good substitution A four pack of the light and fit salted caramel I need one of these for a wednesday's video and then troi loves caramel anything So I know that he will eat these he's been trying to eat a little bit more yogurt So these will definitely get eaten up and then speaking of yogurt. Here's a new find I believe that this is new for summer. This is the myer lemon. Uh, yes, please I love lemon anything and if this tastes like lemon meringue pie or lemon curd, I'm here for it So I actually picked up three of those. I'm out of granola. I'm waiting for my julienne bakery order to come So I thought that the lemon would be good all by itself. Oh my gosh. I'm really excited about this Some nature's own butter bread for wednesday's collab video And then I'm making chicken artichoke chicken. So I picked up just a can of the quartered artichoke hearts I've actually never bought artichoke hearts. So I didn't even know where to find them and just heads up They're in the vegetable section. I decided to get some green juice I've been craving green juice and I didn't want to make my own I actually am looking into a juicer just a small portable juicer So if I get one, I'll definitely let you guys know But in the meantime, I have this suje organic uber greens cucumber celery grapefruit green chard and lettuce It's literally 35 calories for eight ounces. I would count this as zero points So I picked up the big bottle of that it was on coupon at target and then here's a new creamer find This is the natural bliss with prebiotic fiber in vanilla. So it's oat and almond creamer It's 25 calories per tablespoon It is plant based and I do like the natural bliss It does have natural flavor, which is artificial flavor But the ingredients are definitely better in this than in a lot of the creamers So I'm actually really excited to try that as something a little bit different And I like that it has some prebiotics in it and then special k red berries This is Troy's favorite cereal. So he requested this He usually eats a lot of cereal on his days off and since he has days off for the next month I definitely wanted to make sure he was stocked up on some of his favorite cereals light shredded cheese from trader joe's per the usual for quite a few dinner recipes and we like this on our salads Our eggs pretty much everything and then I actually picked up two bags of my favorite nuggets These are the kid's fresh white meat chicken nuggets with vegetables These are the best nuggets ever and you can have six nuggets for three smart points They're my all-time favorite and they are currently on coupon at target So I went ahead and just picked up two bags because they're in the freezer They'll last forever and they really are my very very favorite nugget And then Troy wanted some fries and I saw these Arby's seasoned curly fries And I thought that we could throw these into our air fryer Now they are a little bit higher in points and calories than your traditional french fry But about a quarter of the calories of the fries from Arby's for the same fry So we're excited for these we're going to pop them in the air fryer Maybe have them with burgers or chicken one night and then for the collab video I needed the Tyson air fried 75 less fat chicken breast patties Which my target did not have those so I opted for the chicken breast strips And I'll just make do with those but I'm excited for the recipe for these chicken strips I've actually never had these I have had the nuggets But I honestly prefer the kid fresh and they're lower in point anyways But excited to try out the chicken breast strips pretzel slims from trader joes These are for that what I eat in a day video I'm excited for the recipe that I have in store for these and another pack of the trader joes chocolate chip cocoa Morangs you guys I'm literally obsessed with these you can have three of these huge morangs for 90 calories 30 calories apiece or five smart points. I love them They are packed with chocolate chips. They're such a great evening snack. I'm literally obsessed So I had to pick up another container and everything else is some produce So I have two bags of the organic boil in a or steam in a big broccoli Just so you guys know the organic is the same price as the conventional So I went ahead and just picked up organic even though broccoli is on the clean 15 Some green onions for Troy's salad recipe Radishes for Troy salad a big organic cucumber for a dinner recipe A big bag of organic limes for my water. I've been on a line kick lately I go back and forth between lemon and lime and right now I'm all about the limes and last but not least a red onion So that is everything for the week for my groceries Let's jump into my meal plan and what you'll be seeing on monday for meal prep. So here is the meal planner I absolutely am in love with it It is everything that I wanted it to be and more So I'm excited for those of you that are receiving yours. You two seem to be absolutely Loving it. It is a complete complete game changer for planning all of your meals As well as getting yourself set up for the grocery store with the detachable grocery list Which you guys know I use every single week So this is the current week that we're in of course the grocery list is missing But this is the week of february 20th through february 26th Today saturday, we are going out to dinner or a pizza night tomorrow sunday. I'm making a crock pot lemon chicken orzo Soup I am pretty darn excited for this recipe.  We ended up not making this a couple weeks ago So we added it to this week's meal plan Tuesday, you guys know is a jazzer sized night. So it's always a leftover night Wednesday, I'm doing an artichoke Chicken bake and I'm excited for this too. I'm not the biggest fan of artichokes on their own But I like them in dip. So I figure I'm gonna like them in this recipe Thursday is ground beef enchiladas. I love enchiladas like love love love enchiladas And then friday is always a leftover night just because we generally have quite a few leftovers from earlier in the week For my meal prep this next week for breakfast. I'm doing an overnight breakfast Casserole. I'm pretty excited for this. I'm a sucker for a good breakfast casserole lunch I'm doing asian turkey burgers. I have buns and lettuce wraps So I'm not sure how I'm going to serve them, but these sound incredible I can't wait for that and then for dessert. I need a little chocolate in my life So I'm making some double chocolate brownies So stay tuned for all three of these recipes in monday's meal prep Thank you for joining me on another w w weekly grocery haul I hope that you're excited about my new food finds Definitely snag some of those great deals while they're going on at target And I can't wait for next week's what I eat in a day. 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Massive competition What's up, I'm the Geeks, Mr V here. Welcome to another video guys. So in today's video I want us to take a look at ticket symbol BIGC, big comments But before we get started, if you're new to the channel, we'll talk about how to earn money, how to save money, how to invest and Build wealth. So if that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell So you don't miss out on new content So guys before we actually really jump into the video I wanted to take a second here and just make a huge announcement guys We hit 5,000 subscribers here on the channel, which is Unbelievable like I don't know what to say. I mean 5,000 subscribers like that's that's huge Maybe to some people it's not but to me man, that's massive Just to get that interaction get the questions from you guys and just that you know back and forth and just Helping each other grow. 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So big comments actually You know debuted the IPO last last week on the NASDAQ and if you don't know a little bit about big comments Big comments is a it's our software as a service platform Exactly comparable to Shopify so I did a video here on the channel talking about Shopify and how I saw the potential for them growing I'm gonna hook that video up here So you can definitely go check it out if you haven't already but big comments is in the same space They're doing exact same thing providing Business owners and entrepreneurs an opportunity to be able to open an e-commerce store with all the different Capabilities that you would need to run a business. So we're talking about shipping We're talking about packaging and all these other things that they integrate. They have a ton of Add-ons or plugins that you can put in there to make your store a very very Functional e-commerce store Shopify doesn't exact same thing. So again, they're company competitors for investors if you if you missed out on the break on Shopify and you didn't invest in it at the early stages Because it's right now trading at about 10 $1,000 a share. So if you missed out on it big comments would be Where else a poor man's version of Shopify and hopefully who knows maybe someday They can rise to the occasion and start moving further and grow and as Shopify did but you never know again when you when you invest in these stocks, you're going in looking at the potential For growth. So the question that you're probably asking yourself right now is mr. V Is become a big comments? You know a buy at this point There's several factors that would go into me answering that question. So again, as you can see here B commas has The platform a software as a service where you can go in and just sign up and then be able to create your own store and Include some of the the different plugins that they have to allow you to grow your business customize your store To your liking and use your own domain name Just to kind of get your product out there Help you with integration with social media so you can actually grow your business and stuff like that. So Again, if you know Shopify, this is exactly What Shopify does already? So If you if we are just looking at that So here are some of the key things again, like I mentioned that we I want us to consider when it comes to to to be commas, right? They're right now. Your finances are not looking too good So your finances they've actually lost a ton of money Over the years so 2019 and 2020 they've been on the losing end And the reason for that has been I mean, they're still trying to grow and expand So again, if that's the same thing that Shopify went through losing money So finances and evaluation is definitely I'll take another red flag But if you look at most of the tech companies, they they do Reinvest a ton of the money into the company to try to to help to have the company grow So that again for somebody that's looking to get into this space that shouldn't be a big big deterrent so Again, this is their S is C filing that you can actually if you want, I'm gonna link it in the description below So you can definitely go check it out and just look at the numbers for yourself COVID-19 has been a big big help to a lot of these e-commerce companies because a lot of people have been doing online shopping because of the shutdown so And you continue to enjoy that growth throughout this period. So when Big commerce actually become is holding actually went live last week This you can see right here that the view The stock has just you know gone up all the way to about just a little bit over $100 and then pulled back as to when I was doing this video They were currently trading at about $76. So Compared that to Shopify, which is currently trading at At about a thousand dollars a share. And so if you can look at Shopify here prior to Covet Strangely fine covert so prior to covert. So this is the low of the cover. They were around $336 fast forward that after covert now they're trading at about a thousand dollars. So if you see them so even when of course it's about 1100 and now pull back to still under a thousand dollars. So Yeah, so Shopify is the giant in the space They've shown they've shown the last time to show consistency in their profitability Whereas be calm as it is just getting to the space and And whereas more and more people get into online spaces To start creating your own businesses there is potential for for big comments and they get it match up to Shopify I think Shopify is way ahead of the game so giving that E-commerce of potential and and and that software as a service business is something that is growing Be calm is is more than likely to really see some good growth down the road But I don't anticipate the growth to be as much as Shopify that's you get that's just my take so If if you would ask right now. Hey, Mr. V now that you've said all this What do you think is big comments and buy or or what's the deal? I'll take Yeah, if you missed out on Shopify I'll wait for a week to pull back again for for this Even at seventy six dollars there might be some pullback on this coming especially if things Start to get better business. It starts to open up. It might slow down. So you see some pullback So I'll wait for some pullback before I would pull the trigger or You can call a dollar cause average your way into the stock So buy a little bit and then wait for a pullback and average your way down into the stock so So here are you know some of the things so these are some of the reasons why I personally would not be Buying big comments because again guys you you guys know I am already invested in in Shopify If you are Looking to get into the space again I think that big comments is a poor man's version of Shopify so to conclude these guys if you look at what we just talked about here If you just want to get into you know that space Software as a service especially in the e-commerce space. This would be a really low entry point For for you know, what I'll say competition to Shopify But again enter smartly don't just dump everything because I think there's gonna be some pullback on the stock And so if there's that pullback and then you can dollar cause average your way into the stock That's it for this video Again, if you're new to the channel talk about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build What and also if you're looking to get started with investing We currently recommend Weibo and so right now we was doing a promotion where you get two free stocks For just signing up and depositing a hundred dollars So definitely go check them out link in the description below and don't also forget That we were doing our own give away here for you know, this huge milestone of five thousand subscribers on the channel So all we ask is just leave a comment in this video and you are in for a chance to win Three three t-shirts that we're gonna be giving out to three lucky subscribers So if you have any questions again guys, let me know in the comment section and as always Stay motivated


Hello everyone, I welcome you all for this today's session on negative canned. This is part of geometry design of a railway track. I am Ashok Kumar, assistant professor, department of civil engineering, Walsh and the intro technology, Solaapur. Learning outcome of the today's session, at the end of the session, students will able to calculate the negative canned at railway crossings. So, in the earlier session, we have discussed about the what is equilibrium canned, what is canned efficiency and what is canned taxes. So, today we will see the another type of the canned that is negative, canned or negative superelevation. So, when the main line lies on a curve, so both main line and branch line over here, you can see that the when main line lies on the curve and has a turn on of counter flexure. So, what is the meaning of counter flexure? The same elevation, the both main line and branch line are crossing each other. So, leading to another branch line is crossing here, the superelevation necessary of the average speed of the trains running over the main line curve cannot be provided over here. So, what does it mean here? See the outer rail here for the main line I am talking, for the AC should be higher than BD as per the superelevation, outer rail should be higher than inner rail, that is AC should be higher than BD. Now, for the branch line if you define the superelevation, BF should be higher than AE. So, see the point A and B over here. So, for the main line inner rail is lower than outer rail that is point B is lower than point A. For the branch line point A is lower and point B is higher. So, on the same location you see that B is lower for the main line and B is higher for the branch line. So, on the same location due to the same elevation we cannot provide the meeting this criteria, providing the superelevation for the branch line and superelevation for the the main line is not possible at the same location. So, this is here how to overcome this issue where one rail is higher and one rail is lower, particularly the branch line we are getting an issue because the inner lane of the main line that is BD should be lower than AC and here the point B should be lower, but for the branch line it requires higher. So, now what we have to do here, provide the whatever the superelevation you calculate for the main line you provided and whatever the superelevation you provide for the main line you have to provide the negative superelevation for the branch line. So, here you can see that whatever the superelevation provided for the main line we are going to lower the outer rail of the branch line equal to the whatever the superelevation provided for the outer rail. So, that providing the lowering the outer rail of the branch line is called as negative superelevation. So, how to calculate this the negative superelevation for the branch line and also we have to restrict the speed on both branch line and main line because they are crossing at the same elevation. So, to avoid the accident we have to lower the speeds here we have to restrict the speeds both on branch as well as for the main line and how to calculate the negative superelevation here. So, what is the mean by negative? We are providing action superelevation for the main line that is the AC is higher, but at the same time BF we are lowering equal to an amount of what is the AC is provided that is what we have a negative superelevation. So, how to calculate this negative superelevation you can see here first you have to calculate what is the speed given on the maximum speed given on the branch line you calculate the E theoretical. So, now we know that the E actual how to calculate the E actual here? So, this is from the top of the rail to the top of this E theoretical that is what we call as canned efficiency. So, now you calculate E actual or negative superelevation for the branch line canned efficiency minus the E theoretical. So, that gives the what is the E actual or negative superelevation provided for the branch line. So, whatever E actual you providing for the branch line is equal to the your E actual of the main line or E actual of main line is equal to the E actual of negative superelevation for the branch line. So, whatever you providing actual superelevation for the branch line you have to provide the same superelevation for the outer rail or outer rail of the main rail. So, now how to calculate the speed here? If you want to calculate the maximum speed allowed on the main line you have to calculate like this you have to calculate the what is the E theoretical here. So, you know the E actual from the branch line that is equal to the E actual of main line plus you know the canned efficiency add both E actual plus canned efficiency you will get E theoretical. So, for that E theoretical you can calculate what is the maximum speed allowed on the main line. So, let us take an example to understand this in detail. Here branch line the degree of the curve is given as 5 degree and 3 degree is for the main line and if the speed on the branch line restricted to 35 kmph and asking you to calculate what is the speed on the restricted speed on the main line. So, it is a maximum speed restricted is 35 kmph. Now again using your the degree of the curve on radius relation that is r equal to 1750 by D. So, here for the branch line you have to take it is a 5 degree. So, that comes to 350 meter radius for the branch line. Now we know that for the equation for super elevation for the broad gauge. Now that is g v square upon 1.27 r. So, here g equal to 1.676 that is your broad gauge distance. Now calculate what is the E theoretical required for your branch line. So, 1.676 v square is 35 square divided by 1.27 into 350. So, that comes to 4.57 is the 4.57 centimeter is the E theoretical. Now to calculate the negative super elevation we know that the canned efficiency is taken as 7.5 centimeter. Now from the diagram you can see here the E theoretical is whatever you calculated 4.57 and canned efficiency from top of the rail to the your E theoretical is 7.5 centimeter. You can calculate the E actual that is negative super elevation that is equal to 4.57 minus 7.5 that gives you the what is minus 2.92 centimeter is your negative super elevation to be provided on the branch track. I hope you understood this the concept. So, minus 2.92 is negative you have to provide that is canned efficiency allowing maximum of 7.5 centimeter. Now I told you as whatever super elevation provided on the branch track that is equal to the same super elevation E actual on the your main line. So, super elevation to be provided on the main line track is 2.92 which is same as the super elevation of the branch line track but in the opposite direction we have to provide here. So, it means your outer rail is lowered by 2 minus 2.92 centimeter for the your branch line. So, outer rail is this is your outer rail and this is your inner rail here. So, this is where outer rail is the height is reduced by 2.92 centimeter. Now we will go for the main line. Now for the main line again you have to calculate what is the radius the required for that basis taking the degree of the curve. Now here we got 584 meter. Now you can calculate what is the E theoretical to calculate what is the speed here. So, E theoretical is equal to what is your E actual is provided whatever the E actual you provided for the branch line is equal to the E actual of main line. So, 2.92 plus the can deficiency is given as 7.5 centimeter add both this 2.92 plus 7.5 maximum we can go up to 10.42 is the E theoretical. So, now for this 10.42 what is the the maximum speed I can allow on this speed on this main track considering a can deficiency of 7.5 centimeter. So, in this case you can calculate like this put the E theoretical value and unknown is V you can calculate the what is the V here it is 67.9 km page is the restricted speed on the main line. This is the diagram the same diagram which I have explained in the previous slide. Now example 2 now we will go for we will come reverse now we will take the data of the main track and asking you to calculate the data on the branch track. So, here the we will start with the main track here what is the speed is given the speed is given on the main track is the speed is given to you that is 75 kmph calculate the what is the E actual required for this 75 kmph. Now the E actual is equal to E theoretical minus can deficiency again can deficiency is 7.6 centimeter we are taking here let us assume this 7.6 is can deficiency. So, plus 5.36 centimeter because outer rail is raising by 5.36 centimeter with respect to the inner rail. So, for the branch track I told you whatever the E actual is for the your main track is equal to the E actual of branch track. So, you have to provide the negative superlavation of minus 5.36 centimeter for the branch track now you can calculate what is E theoretical. So, E theoretical for the branch track again E actual plus can deficiency. So, that comes to 2.24 centimeter. So, now with this is for the main track I have calculated the E actual and for the E theoretical for the branch track that is 5.36 that is E actual plus 7.6. So, that comes to 2. minus 5.36 plus 7.6 comes to 2.24 for this 2.24 you can calculate what is the speed required. So, that is I have calculated it to 27 kmph. So, these are the references I have used for preparing this presentation. Thank you.


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