 There are 800 million people who go to bed hungry or malnourished on our planet right now and we have to do something about that. Secondly though by the year 2050 there'll be nine billion people and we'll need 70 percent more food production then than we have now. How are we going to get there? There are no fast fixes, silver bullets to the really tough challenges that we face and that's certainly true for food security challenges. But I can tell you this we have no chance of solving the challenge without the promise and potential of technology what has been called by Klaus Schwab the fourth industrial revolution and let me tell you why I find it so promising. So first and foremost in terms of mobile and digital platforms we all know the power and potential of the mobile phone. What it means in terms of food security is incredible. First for consumers you know we're able to now to bring information to the poorest people the most remote people the people in the toughest places on how to breastfeed on things like how to deal with Ebola without the potential of mobile technology we would not have been able to deal with the Ebola health crisis and of course all of the challenges of food security that went along with that. So that's number one. Number two you've got to be able to uplift small holder farmers there's 600 million of them you're not going to be able to do it unless you apply technology in the most robust ways and here we're seeing the combination of market information technical information and financial services all bundled together and reaching farmers in a way we've never seen before it's a revolution and then third I think is social media the way it empowers people to get engaged to build a better world and that's certainly true in terms of food security. Second is the application of science with new and improved seeds and varieties of seeds we now have the promise of developing drought resistant seeds that are going to make a difference all over the world for example you take rice how many people depend on rice as their staple we're now able to make a low glycemic version of rice all throughout Asia because of improved seeds so that's really promising so I really feel that the fourth industrial revolution offers the promise and the potential to help us tackle some of the world's toughest challenges.