IHS REPORT
Lê Thị Hồng Anh
Date: 9/7/2021
Video presentation: The COVID-19 and our new lifestyle
Main contents
COVID-19 has changed our lifestyles:
-People can’t go out and have to work from home
-Many schools have closed and students have to
take online classes
I. Before the pandemic
-Spend time in classrooms and wide spaces
- Interact and communicate with each other
-Can understand others’ feelings by listening,
talking, and observing their facial expressions
- Stay in narrow spaces à interact with those that
we don’t get along
II. In the pandemic:
-Minimal communication
-Only interact with close friends and
acquaintances
-Realized how important our loved ones are
-Feel lonely à worsen mental health (depression
or diminished attention)
-Loneliness increases the risk of smoking, lack of
exercise, poor sleep, …
-People interact online (Clubhouse, Tinder)
because they realize the importance of partners
and it distracts them from loneliness; however,
there’s a risk of getting catfished
-Social media addiction à unhealthy lifestyle
-Personal information might be leaked
III. Solutions on how to communicate in
COVID-19:
-Create a system where neighbors can
communicate and help each other without having
to rely too much on SNS
-Demerit: People can know too much about your
daily life à leads to stalking and such
à Local government needs to manage from inside
to protect people’s identity
Personal opinion
- Should have included a general outline to help
viewers get an overview of the presentations
- Eye-catching slide. I love it!
- I love your interactions at the beginning and end
of the video and how you take turns to speak
- What is the aim of this presentation? (to
promote better lifestyles, raise awareness, etc.)
- How has this lifestyle in the pandemic affect us
and what can we do to minimize the negative
influence of the lockdown?
- I suggest dividing the second section into
positive and negative effects. In that way, your
presentation would be more logical
- I like how you divide our lifestyle into two
different timeline (before and during the
pandemic)
- What do you expect will be the lifestyle after
the pandemic? Will we be just like before, prefer
the online communication like in the pandemic,
or adopt a new lifestyle?
- Is there currently any solution or idea to help
people who are struggling with their mental
health, which is caused by the pandemic? Are
those solutions effective?
- Love the facial expression and body language of
the girl at the introduction part
- Social media also allows people to
communicate with others through groups and
messages. What will make your solution special
from others?

Video presentation: Starvation in the United States
Main contents
I. Overview
More than 1 in 6 children lived in food-insecure
households, as of 2017, lacking consistent access
to adequate food and placing them at an increased
risk of obesity.
* Food security: adequate access to food in both
quality and quantity.
-Moderate food insecurity: uncertainty about their
ability to obtain food and need to compromise the
quality and quantity.
-Food insecurity: Have run out of food and gone a
day or even days without food. 
*Hunger and children:
-22% of the population: annual income
of $22,350.00 for a family of four.
-Kids cannot learn as much, as well, nor as fast.
-More likely to suffer from headaches, cold, flu,
obesity, etc.
II. Lack of government service
Government policies during the pandemic: vital
and alleviated many of the problems families have
suffered during the pandemic, including funding
families to help afford healthy food choices and
better educational opportunities
-NLSP: source of nutritious food for children
experiencing hunger and poverty. Many children
eat 2 meals/day at school and this is the only
reliable option.
-SNAP: Nation’s largest federal nutrition program
helps connect children with healthy meals and
supplements food budget.
-Limited funding (4% of government funding goes
to food and agriculture)
- What would you do to tackle the problems
regarding mental health caused by the pandemic?
Personal opinion
- You did a quite detailed research. Good job!
- Giving a definition of the key terms is
considerable and will help viewers get a deep
understanding of the topic
- Should have included a list of references at the
end of the presentation for the reliability of the
project
- Some slides contain small text, which is hard to
see
- 1:27 What is the resource for this information?
Without references, it might seem to be
unreliable
- Suggestion: you should include the effects of
starvation in the United States, efforts, if any,
made to tackles those problems and you
recommendation and suggestion.
- The notification popped up and obstructed some
information on the slides
- 4:00 Cost of production is one of the reasons
why unhealthy food is so cheap.
- The price of unhealthy food keeps being so
cheap is because customers are expected to
benefit from lower gas prices, falling
unemployment, and rising minimum wages.
And as low-income consumers find more
money in their wallets, commodity prices are
no longer shooting upward as they did in
recent years.
 III. Reasonable vs unreasonable prices - 4:30 Such a complicated matter! L
- Governments wants to ensure quality in calories
à support big corporations that produces highly
processed food for cheap price à Poor people
stuck with unhealthy diet
-Healthy diets: plant-based à but lowering prices
for plants risks farmers not making a living. à
farmers could quit farming altogether.
- High prices for plants à people can’t afford
healthy food à resort to cheap processed food
(current situation)

IV. Accessibility to all

-Accessibility to technology, opportunity, and
healthcare.
-PRSP often recognise that the continued to
improve assets of a country are fundamental to
support economic growth and reduce poverty.
-If there’s poor access to health services and
clean water, people will remain unhealthy.
-If there’s poor access to education, children
will have limited knowledge regarding such
issues -> the poverty cycle
àSolution:
-Increase access to food benefits -> help more
Americans have access to healthier food
options.
-Access to free healthcare
-Educational opportunities

V. Conclusion
Lack of government services is the biggest cause,
therefore we should increase food benefits and
lower the cost of healthcare.

Video presentation: Pesticide abuse in Vietnam

Main contents Personal opinion

1. Overconsumption of Pesticide - There are many figures and graphs, but barely
-Benefits of pesticides: any reference or explanation to them as some
+Increases agricultural production include unfamiliar terms. What is the use of such
+Reduce pests figures, why do you include them?
-Side effects:
+Ruin human’s health and the environment
-Vietnam’s expenditure on pesticide is
proportional to the number of lands used for
agriculture
2. Evaluation of Vietnam’s policies
-1986 - 2002: implemented policies to control
overconsumption
-Since 1986: The administry of agriculture and
rural development issued a list of legal pesticides
-1990: Regulation on application of pesticide
+1 pesticide for one type of products
+ Companies still go against this
-1995: Decree no. 92-CP
-2002: Amendment of decree no. 92-CP
-Problem: Cannot fully eliminate the use
3.Solutions to address overconsumption of
pesticide
-Find alternatives (Hand-picking, natural barriers,
traps, and predators; crop rotation; polyculture;
biocontrol
à Time-consuming, labor intensive, or costly
-Strategies that other countries have done:
+Fix the misallocation of land
+Prohibit private import & restrict import
+Focus on research in the food sector
+New safer versions are introduced
-Many countries have implemented restrictions
and have succeeded
4.Agritech:
-Indoor vertical farming: Stacking plants one on
top of each other in a closed, controlled
environment
- Farm automation: Usage of robotic innovation
(expensive to farmers, >< there are credit
packages)
- Farmers have to be willing to adopt this method
à Provide farmers with accurate knowledge
5.Education
-Education institutions à reduce lack of education
6. Conclusions
- 1:15 Why do you compare Vietnam to
Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. What are the
common features of them?
- Should insert more keywords in the slide to help
viewers follow more easily
- 4:32 The group give examples on the
alternatives and also point out their drawbacks à
more objective
- 5:20 Give examples of methods from other
countries and show how they can be implemented
in Vietnam à those methods seem to be more
applicable
- 6:25 Will plants underneath are able to get as
much sunlight and nutrition like those on top?
- Indoor vertical farming requires high energy,
operational, and labor costs. Farmers in rural
areas may not be able to afford it.
- Pests still can enter the systems if farmers are
not careful
- 6:40 Vietnam may not be able to adopt such
technology due to the lack of resource for
research and development
- And again, it is a costly method, poor farmers
may not get access to it
- Even if they receive education, farmers might
still use pesticides because of their benefits