It Takes a World To Make Your Coffee | Alice Dien | TEDxUC Davis

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Every day, over two billion cups of coffee are consumed around the world, yet most of the people who drink it will never meet the people who grow and process it. That distance is easy to overlook. In her talk, Alice Dien traces what happens in the invisible stretch between harvest and cup, and asks a simple question: what changes when we stop seeing food as a product and start seeing it as a relationship? Alice Dien grew up in Europe in a multicultural family before moving to California to pursue graduate studies at UC Davis. At a conference in Bali on the future of food, she became obsessed with one question: why are we working so hard to produce more food while losing a third of it before it ever reaches anyone? That question has shaped a career at the intersection of science and commercialization. She is a PhD candidate in Biological Systems Engineering, where she studies postharvest systems and low-energy drying methods for coffee, nuts, and staple crops. Alongside her research,

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