BBC Future of Food - Part 3: Cuba
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- čas přidán 26. 02. 2012
- Future of Food -Part 3: Cuba
In the final episode George Alagiah heads out to Havana to find out how they are growing half of their fruit and vegetables right in the heart of the city, investigates the 'land-grabs' trend -- where rich countries lease or buy up the land used by poor farmers in Africa -- and meets the Indian agriculturalists who have almost trebled their yields over the course of a decade.
George finds out how we in this country are using cutting-edge science to extend the seasons recycle our food waste and even grow lettuce in fish tanks to guarantee the food on our plates.
He hears the arguments about genetically modified food and examines even more futuristic schemes to get the food on to our plates.
One of things that could radically reduce food shortages in developed countries is taking seriously the need to eliminate food waste in restaurants and other places that prepare food for the market. The amount thrown away is insane. That would be a good first step - eliminate the waste of edible food.
"This hardly looks like the solution to the global food crisis. It seems much too small" Wrong! You miss the most important point. It is the scale. Local people growing their own food in an intensive manner. You can grow a lot more per acre using hand methods and humus rich soil.than using machinery. Tractors require wide rows, they compact the soil, too much mechanical tillage ruins soil structure. The machinery and its upkeep are very expensive. The conventional farm stores produce and then ships it long distances, The "Green Revolution" which tried to export chemical and machine intense farming to the world didn't work. Obviously as shown in Cuba intensive hand cultivated worm compost enriched farming does work.
Thank you Mark. We working on bringing that awareness to our fellow villagers and erstwhile subsistence farmers out here.
Limpopo, South Africa.
Sweating about food production while accepting gross over-population as a given = Re-arranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic.
One more thing. It is G.M.O. The O is for organism. Again from the yank, (who's family migrated from Southern England in 1645).
put sails on the container ships.When trade walks hand in hand with oil,your going have to pay the piper.I grew all my veg last year in my backyard,so it can be done. People need to learn from their grand parents from depression era farming
At about 37:55- I noticed that the farmer avoided naming the corporation that manufactures both genetically manufactured seed(terminator seed), and the glyphosphate (Roundup). It was very likely MONSANTO. Well, there, I said it for him!
Permaculture Food Forest principles 'are' a good answer. Organic 'is' a good answer. Increase variety and diversity, move away from Mono-culture farming methods. These SCIENCES are intelligent science that improves the soil, the attraction to needed precipitation when it is needed. Electric solar power. Come on...we do have some answers, BUT,fact is, these methods will not feed the huge food industrial complex that makes a very few mega corps continuously richer; that is where we need change!
We don't need genetically modified crops. I'm studying horticultural science, genetic modification is bullshit and hybrid plants aren't that great either, plants evolve on their own in accordance to their environment and build up their own resistances to diseases, bugs and weather factors eg; companion planting, developing stronger root systems etc.
We need to relearn how to work with nature and the best place to start is by growing your own food (a viable option for those that don't work full time). Think about it, If you have time to sit down and watch this documentary, then you have the time to research and grow your own.
Become independent folks, you owe it to yourselves!
over 90% of corn and soybeans in the US have been genetically modified, either to produce pesticides or be resistant to term. It isn't bullshit, it's a useful technology
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Great idea.
In Hungary we're still very seasonal. For example, you can't get strawberries now, just frozen ones. You can get some grapes, but not a lot. It's mostly apples and squash.
They need to interview Joel Salatin and Mark Shepard
More like Bill Mollison. Mark Shepard has his own hidden agenda within the permaculture scene. He wants to feed the masses without fixing the underlying problem of population and change of lifestyle. All he is really interested in is being the messiah.
I think the solution is a mixture of different scales of food production and different technologies. Government has to assure food security in all social levels, it means give to the market a share of the food supply and take control of the supply in some areas that private companies just couldn't do properly. There's no a final solution to the problem of food production and distribution and every country has to find it's own, but taking care of the environmental sustainability.
Santi Amen lol
verticle farms are in italy... beautiful and cost effective.. best method.. grow your own.
Fish farming seems interesting.
absolutely!
Food of the future will be probably less meat and more fruit and vegetables, But in the way that vegetables can be prepared in a good delicious meal is endless.
Regarding the GMO segment, why not just inter-plant those nitrogen-fixing plants along side those that need nitrogen (it's called "polyculture") instead of messing with Nature's technology already R&D'd over millions of years? Just to better facilitate the already disastrous Green Revolution? Genetically modifying things may seem logical within the myopic confines of a laboratory, but release those mutations into the complex of symbiotic systems of the natural world and the domino effect of unintended consequence become a Frankenstein (as GMO contamination is now). The patenting of life forms needs to be banned and outlawed, and returned to the commons.
Vertical farming is brilliant
Aquaponics is a revolution in the making. It is a closed water system - it losses very little water so it is invaluable in sunny arid enviornment - that rears fish in a lower container then pumps the waste of the fish to fertilize edible crops in the upper layers. Organic vegetables with a protein source ranging is size from a backyard production to large scale producers. Aquaponics is a very serious contender for sustainablility.
What about the island Jamaica is it that they have enough food or they don't?
In the old newscast you showed from ww 2. The word vitamin was pronounced with a long I. That is how should be pronounced in that vitamin means vita. Yes I am a yank, but I am correct. I cringe when I hear the word pronounced in which the I is pronounced as a short I as in the word it. Again vitamin means vital.
No mention of mushrooms, waste to food....easy
Ultimately one need to choose right
In Toronto, we have a similar project of collecting and recycling waste food. However, the woman at 49:20 should consider taking the access bread, drying it, then processing it to make bread crumbs which can then be used in her cooking for many things, including soup and stew thickeners. Also, the leftover bread can replace such things as pie crusts as well as make desserts such as bread pudding, bread and butter pudding, and more. People nowadays do not think. or have not been taught to do so. As for aquaponics, it is not a new idea as it has been used successfully in China and other Oriental countries for hundreds of years. In those countries, they grow rice in the paddies and allow fish to breed and grow in the same areas. I know because I have lived in some of the countries and seen it happen.
+Wotdermatter I produce HRW that is used for bread. There is no market for it. In US we only eat 1/3 of this wheat so there is a low price, $4 of wheat to make 70 loafs of bread. I would grow more wheat but why.
+Robert Fez num Fez num MESMO mês mo está mês mo you
Jimmie Doherty BBC Documentary - GM food fight. Some call it propaganda, i say its a nice view on GM for/against topic.
Do the owners and employees of Monsanto, Syngenta, and Dupont eat the food that came from their own seeds and other products?
51:53 - BUILD THIS THING
What an advertisement for GM. It's like they are saying "it's here, get used to it". All they care about is can the future of food be profitable.
53:54 - AND PUT THIS THING IN IT
New Zealand currently exports 80% of their produce world wide, resulting in rising food prices for us kiwi's. Natural swamps that support our natural ecosystems are being drained for the production of sheep and cattle, destroying our the fertility of out land. Self sufficiency is an excellent idea for all countries, but it starts with individuals not governments.
17:00 first show cute little lambs jumping about and then show them as meat hanging off hooks!
In USA we throw food away so much 😪
The problem is not that we do not grow enough food but that we reproduce too much... Why not keep the population stable and stop increased it as we continue improving our methods of producing food?
First worlders, specifically Europeans and East Asians, are not reproducing too much, 3 worlders are. Funny how he fails to mention this at all and directs the responsibility on Europe.
GoodGoy6mil
I think you are dreaming... China is in East Asia, right? Second, it does not matter who has the biggest problem... In Europe and in America both they take the food from the less developed countries. There is something we are not doing right. Something we have to accept and then resolve it. We are all to blame and we are all to resolve it. Expect if you want them to adapt to you as you do nothing for them... Simple this won't happen.
31:17 my dad's friend. :)
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Theres way more animals in the world than humans, how do they survive without gm food, fertilizers or a combine harvester?? Makes me worried:D
No discussion of managing resources means anything until you address population control. None. Earth is finite in size, therefore population growth will stop. Technological solutions only tinker with the timeline. The -only- question is whether or not population growth will stop before or after we have completely stripped this planet of it's resources and unspoiled nature. All discussions of food, energy and resources (and most war) follow from population issues. So let's start dealing with the core issue.
Agreed.
LOL
GMO is fueling climate change through the modification of plants ability to produce hydrocarbons, phenols, alkenes, etc. GMO is key in many biofuel programs. Planned orchestration. These plants exhale.
lol. the best u can do is read books and not yt.
What on earth are you talking about?
Okay, without getting into any woo... You're going to genetically engineer a wheat that can supply its own nitrogen, in order to reduce nitrogen poisoning, and also because nitrogenous fertilizers require the input of energy--which we're running out of, at least in the form of fossil fuels. So. How are you planning to plant and harvest that wheat?
Pros, mainly.
Yeah, Cuba did a fantastic job helping Angola with their farming. The crops and techniques they introduced the Angolans to failed, the crops died and the soil became infertile. Lets just say Cuba is not very popular these days with the Angolans.
I think the real solution is cutting back on the one thing we can really cut back on: children. Have one, or max. two. Obesity can be another solution, as obese people have a harder time reproducing and die sooner than healthy people. Don't forget, fat produces oestrogen. For women, that means difficulty in reproduction, and cancer. For men, also difficulty in reproduction.
its not that the population is growing, is that consumer are more looking to support technology like computers or taking away lands from farmers to building exclusive villages or malls business hub. Capitalist are the one who's shrinking the farm lands. The Goverment should support the farmers 101% so they will be motivated. if the capitalist buy all this farm land, in the end they will have full control of the food supply and they will be the one who will dictate who will eat or die. So don't blame it to new born babies blame it to the goverment & progress.
What you state does not make sense at all. Less people = less malls, less oil burning farmers and less need to ruin soils with current agricultural methods. Every 12 years there is an extra billion people to feed in the world.Thats scary.
every day a new genius is born. in fact these genius's are destroying the world. 50 yrs ago the white american family never worried about food. the average family had a small garden and those that didn't knew someone down the street who grew what they needed. every farmer had a pantry. they grew and canned everything they needed. size and shape of a potato meant nothing it was still good to eat. today a super mind decided that 40% of all food grown looks bad so is buried. in the dump. i do see hope. there is a movement to go off grid, cut utilities and get back to basics. canning farming may stop smart people from destroying us. lets go back before smart people ruined us.
What the hell are u talking about? Food shortage ? I live in North America! Looking around here I think there’s actually too much food!? Ever heard of the obesity epidemic? Shortage of food don’t make me laugh!
be fair please. murdering people who already exist isn't what he proposed.
What I say means for al religians, a Catholic baby is the as a Moslim ore Bhouda baby !
They al must have food, closes and who knows how mutch energy they gona waist in there futur ?!
Eeting vegan food is already a good start for all to produce 1 gram of lammeat There is needed 15 liters of water !
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Get rid of oil addiction by giving up motorized transportation. Go back to sailboats, horses. Im dead serious, truth hurts.
...why can't we be like the Danish- stop roving around in massive SUV's, and take a bike to work. GMO's should be investigated, but they shouldn't be planted or eaten! They shouldn't even be a last ditch effort for survival.
have these guys never heard of permaculture,...?
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Jacob Hafer Why not? It would take a lot more labor per calorie produced, but at least we'd spend less calories per food calorie produced.
Its the only way to feed to the world in the future. All be with alot less humans.Agriculture cannot feed the world in the future. It has already turned entire countries in the middle east to deserts, and large parcels of even first world countries.
The very brief section on Cuba was pathetic, dismissive and obviously biased. Absolute crap excuse for journalism. No matter what you think of Castro, nobody starved to death during the "Special Period" after the Soviets left them high and dry, and they've made great strides in low-input urban agriculture. This series should have done a much better job in looking at the place, bad and good.
GMO B.S.
Bullocks!
Who taught you how to spell lol?
Is that the extent of your education? 100% of what you said is not true. I guess you don't let facts get in the way.
MrSustainableVegas you witty
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LOL. Cuba is the last place to go to find out how to grow food.
Why?
Matthew McVeagh, because the government does not allow the farmers to own land and profit from their harvest. What incentive does a government owned slave have to grow food?
Patrick McCarron Survival? Have you seen episode 1 of this series? He already visits Cuba in that. The embargo on Cuba by the United States means very little food comes into the country, therefore they are all forced to grow it themselves. Individuals and families grow/rear some things in their back gardens. That is a kind of owning land and profiting from the harvest.
I don't know everything about the mass production methods in Cuba, is it all government owned? The thing is that lots of private farmers can involve inefficiencies whereas if you collectivise you get lots of efficiencies in organisation and production. I'm not defending communism but there are reasons why they have the system they have what with the embargo.
+Matthew McVeagh Go home commie, you lost.
GoodGoy6mil I *am* home, ignorant. I'm not a communist and nobody lost, there was no game. All my points stand and you haven't even tried to answer them.
there is plenty of food in the world if your a Vegan ! and stop torturing animals
you should tell that to the catholics and other religious fanatics who think that our duty to *god* is to keep procreating as much as possible... they are against any and all forms of birth control =(
talk about fucked up dental hygiene...yuck....
The most simpel solution for this problem is also the most simple to do, stop producing more humans !!!
these guy has to be very ignorant to go to cuba to find out about food production.
Cuba has already faced the problem of peak oil long before the rest of the world, and Cuba is therefore (believe it or not) an example for the rest of us.
John Lysfjord .
ariel martinez Why?
I will never understand why people put their compost in plastic bags