Digging In: Fortifying Global Food’s Future
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In this inspiring episode of Digging In, host Garland West chats with Dr. Bluethner, former Nutrition Security Director of The Gates Foundation, about how adding microscopic quantities of essential vitamins and minerals to everyday staples like oil, flour, and salt can achieve world-changing health "moonshots"...all for just fractions of a cent.
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Digging In: Fortifying Global Food’s Future
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In this inspiring episode of Digging In, host Garland West chats with Dr. Bluethner, former Nutrition Security Director of The Gates Foundation, about how adding microscopic quantities of essential vitamins and minerals to everyday staples like oil, flour, and salt can achieve world-changing health "moonshots"...all for just fractions of a cent.
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Dr. Andreas Bluethner unpacks the real-world grit behind global nutrition, from market champions revolutionizing traditional snacks in Kenya, to creating low-cost testing instruments that replace $100,000 lab equipment, to why golden rice became a textbook communication disaster.
This is a fun, inspiring, and fast-paced conversation that will transform how you view the food in your shopping cart and the capabilities of our global food system
About Our Guest
Dr. Bluethner founded his strategy, investment, and partnership firm in 2023. Prior to that, he was the Food & Nutrition Security Director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Director of Nutrition & Health at BASF. Dr. Bluethner’s focus on innovation, partnerships, and blended finance alliances has catalyzed investments of more than €1 billion over his career and improved the lives of more than half a billion people in critical areas such as nutrition, food systems, access to medicines and energy, and agricultural innovation.
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Digging In: Fortifying Global Food’s Future
In this inspiring episode of Digging In, host Garland West chats with Dr. Andreas Bluethner about how adding microscopic quantities of essential vitamins and minerals to everyday staples like oil, flour, and salt can achieve world-changing health "moonshots"...all for just fractions of a cent.
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Digging In: Fortifying Global Food’s Future
In this inspiring episode of Digging In, host Garland West chats with Dr. Andreas Bluethner about how adding microscopic quantities of essential vitamins and minerals to everyday staples like oil, flour, and salt can achieve world-changing health "moonshots"...all for just fractions of a cent.
