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« We need to move from efficiency to adaptability. So speaks the famous American economist and sociologist Jeremy Rifkin, specialist in foresight, economics and science and thinker of positive ecology.
In his latest book The Age of Resilience (The links that liberate), he imagines our world of tomorrow. In 1988, 35 years ago, he was not mistaken since in Washington, he brought together climate scientists and environmental activists from 35 countries. First meeting of the Global Greenhouse Network. At the time, he was the theoretician of the third industrial revolution, giving lectures on global warming. He has advised many political figures, including Angela Merkel. Jeremy Rifkin77 years old, is today a voice which carries in the world. Eco from here eco from elsewhere gives him the floor at length for an interview granted to Ariane Gaffuri, journalist in the economics department of RFI. It is also about solutions to save humanity.
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In the second part of the program, a file on the standoff around the production of cereals in Ukraine and their transport via the corridor now threatened by Russia. Aabla Jounaidi, from RFI’s economics department, was able to speak with Mykola Solsky, the Ukrainian Minister for Agrarian Policy and Food. He gives his country’s point of view and addresses Africa, which is particularly dependent on Ukrainian wheat.
And in the last part ofEco from here eco from elsewhere, we talk about the innovations that are moving the music industry on the African continent. The evolution in consumption patterns with streaming and digitalization will be at the heart of the Salon des industries musicales en Afrique francophone (Sima), the first edition of which will be held on November 17 and 18 in Abidjan. Its organizer, Mamby Diomandé, director of the Live & Brands department of Universal Music Africa is our guest.