Future of Food: Farming in the age of climate change
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2017
- As climate change worsens and the global population rises, we risk food shortages worldwide. Are organic farming and hydroponics the key to farming's future?
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Unpredictable weather patterns are forcing farmers to adopt new methods to maintain a viable business while making food production as efficient as possible.
A small farm in south Dakota has turned to organic farming and invested in their dirt while others have taken climate out of the equation and invested in hydroponics, growing vegetables in large warehouses.
In the last of our What Happens Next, we explore the future of food through farming.
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"Farmers will feel the impacts in their fields before we feel them in our grocery stores" is such a good line, and definitely true. Great video.
@Sweet James
agree
@Sweet James Maybe in your part of the world its ok. But here in my place (South East Asia), we are already suffering from negative impacts. Billions of dollars lost during typhoons every year, food shortage, etc. Maybe its better if you get out of your high horse and see the world as a whole rather than your small safe space bubble. I'm also a farmer for 17 years (Pechay, Lettuce, Potatoes, Strawberries, and Roses). I have already adapted to Vertical farming. Gave me 5-8 times more output.
"this is the ark we're building before the rain" - that hit me hard
How sweet.
@@dallassegno When you trust no one and be cynical about everything, it doesn't make you a happier person. Isn't it an amazing thing that people still believe in good things instead of distrust each other?
@Sweet James Well, you may have your reasons. I understand how much the wolrd sucks, there are full of liars etc.. But to me I don't think buying wrong products can hurt me in any form, unless they are poisonous. Even if they are real liars, I've still got inspired. Maybe I'll try to be a better person myself, it doesn't hurt. The reason why the world sucks is because of everyone of us (not everyone but me). While I can't change others' way of life, I'm still gratful to see positive ideas that makes me want to change.
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1:13 What song were they singing?
This was a heart warming video. It really shows how hard these farmers have to work for the future of mankind, for OUR future. It's truly inspirational.
It's noted that the farmers will feel the effects of climate change long before we do. However, WE consumers have the future of mankind. We have to redraw the food system, especially in the developed west, and the Standard American Diet that we have established as the marker for middle-class consumption. If the next Billion people born (and over 95% of them will be born in Africa and Asia) were to eat like Americans, our species is dead. We need to become more plant-based like the developing world, not the other way around!
@Sweet James your the kind of farmer I would drink beer with
When it’s a farmer not a scientist talking about climate change, you should know it had gong too far
I just came here because I would like to say that while they raised some important issues in this video, the solutions they portrayed are not at all solutions. I'm a student of Agroecology in university so I can say with some property that organic farming as it was portrayed here does not at all changes how we produce and distribute food, it's only difference from conventional agriculture is that it ceases to use chemicals. This is a problem, as is the very system of food production that it keeps that must be replaced in order for meaning change to happen. We need a much more deep and complex change. A system change. Organic farming is not that! It still has a high degree of machinery use (and so fossil fuel), water usage and outside input (for example the manure he talks about in the video, where is this coming from? Organic agriculture does not adress that) usage. It doesn't get better with hydroponics.
So no, this is NOT the future of farming, because if it is, funnily, it will not be on longer future. As those two kinds of farming portrayed do not address the reasons why we are in the situation of climate change in the first place and so it cannot sustain life in the planet on a long-term.
So we actually need a cultural and spiritual change, a fundamental change in the way humanity understands itself and see its place in this world and our interactions with it. To begin with, I recommend a read on Permaculture.
"...So we actually need a cultural and spiritual change, a fundamental change in the way humanity understands itself and see its place in this world and our interactions with it."
very true.
@Sweet James way to boast :) 20 years and still didn't learn
Well Said!! Watch The SOIL SOLUTION. Nature is the answer.....
This is really high quality... Nice job
in new york organic farmers are using sewage. imagine the toxins in that...
James if it’s treated. There are none.
Decomposing/oxidizing cow manure is probably the largest greenhouse gas contributor world wide... I live in a country that also uses it on every field but the best way to use it will be always mixed up in a ratio with other decomposing matter like 30% leafs,fruits,peals etc 30% cow manure 30% recycle paper,cardboard,wood chips, sticks etc in that way the soil will be way more balance in terms of holding moisture and nutrition. Also too much cow manure can essentially "burn" your crops.
very true, composting is the way to go for this. we need to produce less waste closing more and more the cycle of production until it becomes a natural system
At least some part of the global food waste could go to more compost
It is also possible to get fuel from manure using anaerobic digesters. This traps the methane that would have been released so it can be used for fuel. The leftover is a good manure/compost substitute.
Let's not forget the C:N ratio should be 24:1 for soil microbes to compost efficiently. Cattle Manure is 17:1 so they could pea straw to help raise it.
Cow manure is better off processed as biogas first. Use the methane as fuel, and then use it for soil conditioning.
Indoor vertical farming is the future. Less water, no soil, artificial lighting, and local.
David Lopez Aquaponics, smaller pollyculture operations and vertical farming will be needed to replace the soil people will use up for housing.
They are on the right path but not off the path yet.
I farm .78 urban acres and can produce almost 10,000 lbs of food every year.
With their monoculture row techniques I would be lucky to produce 1000 lbs.
A nuclear power plant of 1 GW may power the lighting to feed 100.000 people (complete supply of calories).
Nobody If you take into account the area of each row and number of levels, it's quite large how much food you can produce is such a small space of land by stacking on top of each other. For example, if you can grow an acre of land and produce 10,000 pounds of food every year why can't you take an acre of land, stack 30-40 levels with hundreds of rows and produce 40,000 - 60,000 pounds per year?
Are you an expert in organic soil-based vertical agriculture?
Notice that there aren't any animal pens in these operations. Can you imagine steers grazing on these plants? It illustrates the non-sustainability of meat production. Eat low on the food web.
I absolutely love that you made the soil a focus. Soil is so critically important. Concentional farming destroys millions of acres of heirable land every year.
Thought provoking... clarity and quality of the content is truely amazing as always... good job Quartz... eager for more...
Awesome, clean, editing 😍
A correction for 2:13
For these farmers all this effort is worth it, because for them the future of food has alot to do with the premium price of organic crops
05:52 um excuse you that was perfectly good pasta
This comment is filled with maaa frieeeeends! Like everyone else I am stoked on the quality of this video and it's inspirational message. Great work Quartz!
One of the best farming videos I have seen! Great job!
I love videos like this. very informative
This channel is just epic, keep up the good work guys
I get an Interstellar vibe, nicely done!
4:55 i am really angry about how this man ruined his opportunity to make the "all eggs in one basket" pun
Just finished watching what happens next season 1. It made me think more of the basic things. Thanks guys. 🙏🙏
Watch season too! We have one more episode coming out tomorrow. czcams.com/play/PLWHhRzSHrMU-pUX_R8creEG6gq3LI_69q.html
Innovation is awesome
i see a close family with full belly and hearts. thats rare
I feel sad when the *World's 2nd most visited* website doesn't have issues like this on trending, instead typical Hollywood baloney. 😔
+Wo Long most of the viewers are brainwashed by the MSM and the ones that lead and manage these huge websites. It's their fault for being gullible but it's also the fault of the people that own these websites for not stopping the brainwashing because of greed, imagine if all the environment around us would be designed to make us smarter, wiser, to increase our IQ, instead of doing the opposite, or at least not promoting stupidity and low IQ content.
idiocracy .. was right
watch the movie and you will see
@Wo Long CZcams MANUALLLY PUT VIDEOS THEY THINK WILL GET ATTENTION ON TRENDING. Educate yourself, because you surely need it
Very nicely done video. Glad to see a farmer growing organically and diversifying. We live in West-central MN and it's all mono crop around here; either field corn or soy beans. I see some grasses grown for hay. Thanks!
If those monocrops that surround you were all organic there would be substantially less yield. That means to make up for that lost yield many more acres would have to be ripped from nature. Regards.
Nice report...thanks for sharing!
Beautifully edited and superbly shot Video.💯 Very Inspiring too.
Outstanding productions....just found your channel!
They got the idea...we like permaculture and food forest too!
I want a farm that no one can see because if the manure ever hits the fan, people will go to great lengths to eat. I’ve been really interested in what Kimbal musk is doing & other aquaponic farmers are doing.
This family is so sweet & knows it is better to prepare than doing nothing at all, much respect & love to them.
3:46 That's my Minecraft sugarcane farm
Lol nice!
The minute 7:13, reminded me of my dad when I was a kid.
have to use led grow light or can not keep balance as will consume huge power.
High quality Content front Quartz as always.
Wonderful. Thanks
I was reminded of the film Diet for a New America. Their content is complimentary .
What the hell? Only 2k likes? Deserves waaay more for this high quality.
7:13 Such bliss...
This video produced a lot of good proverbs.
Amazing looking video as always ;)
Good quality video right here.
Great video and good luck to these farmers, I hope big Agra doesn’t try to destroy their optimism and innovation. The future is about food more than the latest iPhones I think.
This is the opposite of innovation.
Why not both?
@@miriareu tech innovation is not all there is to innovation. Tech innovation encourages us to consume and consume. That is not compatible with having a habitable planet.
This was a well made video.
Smart individuals.. located in an.. sparsely populated area.
sir can I know the cost of soil less farming, what are the foods to be grown in that can anyone tell me about that
Better to embrace change on your own terms than wait until it embraces you by force. Beautiful
i like the egg sorting thing
the best solution its gmos in vertical farming because then we can let that land previously used to crops to grow forest
less space, less price, less impact
A lot more energy too dumbass.
Az4212 knowledge thirsty most of our crops go to feed animals. Get off ur fatass and go buy some lentils.
TGiSH IllidanServer and with enough renewables you could probably achieve net zero in energy costs
That or grass land for more efficient and better producing livestock as well
leebog31 link to the study please? I'd like to make sure I'm looking at the one you're talking about
There's a movie called CODE46 I don't know how many people ever saw it,but it is worth a watch because there is a part that illustrates the female character supporting(really lead character) who has a vertical farm in her place. Acouple other dystopians all mention thee importance of having a vertical farm in one's home. Unfortunately, this is your future.
shared n spread ...and be humble future currency must be food not some random paper or metal so lets make it happen
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what if the seeds itself is genetically modified? Is there still purely organic plant seeds that are being sold? I really hope someone can tell me
Very pleasing to see kids just being kids instead of device zombies
Hello how do I get into contact with the vertical farm info as well as the otormans
I want an episode just about that indoor farm
I'm good to my soil : )
Both in and outside of the moat.
What was that orange salad dressing they used??
Advance green house may be good for micro growth but hight refresher rate
Source for the calories graph they showed?
05:13 "That's because the human race will consume more food in the next 50 years than it has in the past 10,000 years combined."
This is admittedly terrifying, but it signifies what a unique point in history we occupy. We must understand all that history has taught us, but all the rules have changed. We are at the nexus of many powerful forces, including technology, overreliance on technology, a globalization via the Internet wherein the younger generation has more in common with people their age in faraway countries than they do with their parents; a globalization that makes corporations more powerful than countries. We have the ability to solve things that never before could be solved, and the ability to end our civilization with our sheer population of mindless consumer units voting for mindless populist governments.
The human race hasn't faced extinction in a long time. Let's hope we find our survival instinct and awaken to our challenge.
this is the real content .
building up is best for indoor farming
Can anybody help me? I have this on-going argument with someone that if really "a vertical farming" would benefit us. He said it's just a waste profit. His look of future is kind of dumb for me you know. I want to believe that vertical farming is indeed one of the solution to the modern agriculture! But I'm quite having a trouble with the feasibility of this farming system...
Hoping to find some answers here!
If my explanation is quite not clear to you, feel free to ask with the reply.😀
5:20 I like how they just extrapolate that graph, as though it's a given that the human population will simply grow without bound forever. Same thing with climate change, nobody thinks about how we might just hit a plateau. The climate might become just humid and hot enough to provide huge crop yields for decades, but then never go any hotter (like in the Roman Climate Optimum)
The Ortman family are awesome.
Good job
There are all these warning signs when I was a kid, and my dad just looked the other way, and now look at what I have to deal with.
Organic farming is nice, it is the way my family farmed when I was a child. The problem with that is it takes a tremendous amount of physical labor, therefore, limiting production. I do not believe in climate change as something new the earth has and always will continue to change. You are right in stressing the need for increased production with world population projected to push 9 billion by 2050. The thing that bothers me most about increaseing production is the takeing out of production of our most productive soils through urbanizatoion, with absoluately no regard for future generations, all in the name of progress "greed".
3:44 What kinda farm is this? Where are all the GPU's
That ark part has me
So grow food using permaculture techniques like we did centuries ago lol ok great glad you guys figured out what us homesteaders already knew
"It's not just another gadget" - that hit me hard Save the world Food and Water!
where do I sign up?
Its a shame they didn’t mention the upcoming phosphate crisis of running out of essential nutrients for plants to grow, this is in the next few decades!!
1:13 What song were they singing?
Excuse me, where can I get the datasheet of the chart showing estimated daily calories consumed in this videos?
5:00 I bet he wanted to use "eggs in one basket" but realized that it would be too corny.
What about home gardens, victory gardens? THAT would go a long way to help families.
Does plowing the land not release carbon?
5:15 Hey, this graph looks familiar. What's it called? "Exponential growth?" What's he say? "We're going to need it all." I'm glad he finds this a problem that "we" can deal with.
when did we eat 355B calories
you know that were actually growing more food per person than ever before, mainly in part thanks to fertilizers , produced by oils and that the earth is getting greener
The organic farmers that we saw in the beginning and at the end are what the best conventional farmers are doing today. Constant monitoring of the soil’s nutrients and organic matter in essential to sustainable farming. On our conventional farm since we switched to a no till operation 15 years ago we have noticed big difference in our organic matter and the soil’s ability to hold moisture has increased. We seed wheat, barley, canola, and peas in a four year rotation to help manage disease, weeds and insects so that we are not 100% reliant on pesticides. This also reduces our input costs. What I’m trying to say is that you don’t have to farm organically and drive food prices up at the consumer level to farm sustainability and ethically.
Follow me on Twitter @AGRICade for more information.
I feel another solution to aid in this is that people consume the necessary amount of food they need to live with the occasional treat. Also having less kids or no children could help since there are so many of us to begin with.
I’m watching this because of online school lol
Interstellar called it!
6:55
There was a fly on his hat.
How this series is not going viral is beyond me!
Can I get the references please!!
So many abandoned malls, parking Garages, Manufacturing plants
You can’t just say “knock on wood” you have to actually do it. Otherwise the gods just roll their eyes.
How to calculate. Say you buy a farm for 100000$ and every year maintenance and labor is 5000$. Then minimum return of investment is 5%. Say 10000$ per year.
Climate changes regardless, they ship strawberries to Michigan form California, when did Michigan stop being able to grow plants?
What about Rudolf Steiner?
My family aren't farmers anymore, it never was. My Dad was a computer salesman. Half the time unemployed or half the time employed. Mom was a veterinarian and later a high school science teacher then an R.O.P. veterinary teacher.
so with you on the threat
Cleaner healthyer food. Whats not to love. No pesticides or fertiliser clean fresh
How do we know which is from fetus or original crop
Ok, now that we're out of election season and Quartz has decided to pull their head out of their ass Ive subscribed. If I was to have made a production on the topic of farming and ecology it had touched on all these points.
I love this story but goodness gracious why are they eating the poison they pour on the salad ? 1:26
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At least now farm lands can return on becoming lush forests or grass plains
You know we could just limit population growth, then we wouldn't need so much food and the farland could replenish itself more easily while slowly learning how to make it completely sustainable.