This is nothing, im a farmer and next year we wont have enough fertilizer worldwide wich will plummit production in all sectors. We farmers warned for this and still even in holland the goverment is actively destroying farms for green agendas. We farmers will do our best
I think in urban (or even suburban) areas, for the AVERAGE family, finding enough land to become self-sufficient in food would be almost impossible. Probably the best that the (average) family can do is to spare a bedroom. Using hydroponics, food farming techniques etc., how much food/calories/nutrients can we grow in that room? What would be extra cost of that endeavour? Overall, would it be profitable, under different prevailing economic/social/cultural conditions? How would it work in different parts of the world - in the first world, second world, and third world countries, for instance?
Individual gardening is more environmentally friendly and more convenient than commercial garden. How many can't or don't feed themselves? It's shocking how people's do weird things to beg dollar for food. Why not cut all the bullshits out and just grow ur foods. Bad poor education I say.
@@howardkong8927 there's more than enuff land. Some one quoted the other day that just America lawns cud feed half the world. Can't eat grass friends! More than enuff space. Get rid of commercial farming and spread the people's on that land and we cud produce a 100 times more foods. Mono culture against poly culture I think.
Small spaces can produce far more foods if managed right. People's grow on walls roofs every space they can use. Space isn't a problem. Water really isn't a problem, actually growing isn't a problem. It's getting lazy people's to realise they can't rely on others. Built a poor paupers society we have. Growing is the only answer. And trust its easier for one man to get his own than that commercial rubbish.
Why not to work on population control instead. In developed countries already population is in control but in developing country, have one child policy. Why to live a life of insect with more population , have smaller family then live with more resources per capita
I don't think a vertical garden will feed 50 or so children one man in Africa has on average, instead of Africans focusing on producing more food for citizens, how bout they stop producing citizens, say one child policy, half the world population in 50 years, it will happen one way or another.
@@lordhater4207 I agree that we should all plant food everywhere. And I think we should share it freely. But you make yourself sound like a MAGA bigot with your comment.
@@sanjuansteve Facts are African countries average 6 children per women whilst developed first world countries average 1,5 and whilst you can supplement or feed a family on a single vertical garden, you can't feed average 8 people on it, no way especially if you take into account what this woman said, mainly caloric value rather than just mass, plus all of it (the gardens) hinge on availability of fresh water which we don't have enough especially in Africa second thing chemical fertilisers not present, which then returns us to the biggest problem food production faces....people. more people more problems, cut number of people and spend within your means you won't have an issue with starvation, children won't have to suffer and neither would adults, cut the number of people and you will have enough it is the most rational solution.
This is awesome in the true sense of the world. How amazing that TED and UA-cam are making the propagation of this message possible. I will be changing my behaviors and sharing this.
It's actually going to be much worse than she is making out. This is not the only problem we will face regarding famine. With the worlds population just peaking we may need less food in 50 years from now on-wards but water is going to be an issue over those next 50 years. We need to plant trees like never before. We need to put a stop to deforestation and desertification. We need to stop overeating and to stop wasting food. Many of the countries that import could grow for themselves but without solving these other issues you can expect to see famine. Now, whatever the media choose to report and what they blame it on is another issue. Institutions are evil!
The Chinese have already figured this out... Have you ever heard of their one Road one belt initiative to take over India and Africa? They have already locked up 11 African countries. And they are not doing this with goodness in their hearts. China is the new pre-world war 2 Hitler Germany..
So is this base purely on the import and export of calories from each country? And if so how do we know that is directly tied to if there is enough calories for the population?
She talked about not all foods being made equal, yet didn't differentiate between any types of food - only talking about calories. This is exactly the wrong way of approaching this issue. Good health is not achieved through calories entirely sourced from fat, sugar or other poor quality foods. Our bodies require vitamins, minerals...NUTRIENTS! SOME of which nutrients happen to contain dietary calories - essential fats, carbs and high quality plant proteins. Defining food security based upon raw calories is misguided, and increasingly so, as more and more of the caloric foods produced in the world are of lower and lower nutrient density. We are already in a food crisis. Parts of the world are plagued by life threatening vitamin and mineral deficiencies, over-reliance upon poor quality protein crops, natural plant toxicants and microbiologically compromised crops. Not even to mention all the obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, cancer, inflammatory and metabolic diseases caused by people not just in western countries, but globally, consuming far too many calories and not enough nutrients!!!
bbbbrrrzzt to maintain satisfactory health our bodies need polyunsaturated fats, starch, fiber, simple sugars, protein, vitamins, minerals and polyphenols. They do not need saturated fat, cholesterol or free sugars. Hope that clears it up
Actually, due to the biological mechanism known as "ketosis," carbohydrates (which include any form of sugar, simple or other) are not essential for human bodies and satisfactory health. However, it wouldn't be viable to have everyone (or even a majority) on a diet without carbs.
They've been telling this to us at least since Malthus ...Erlich was telling us 50 years ago to get ready imminently for hundreds of millions of starvation deaths all over the world ...food prices have gone down and up and down since 2008 ...most famines of recent decades occurred despite ample available food, rotting in cargo ships etc., while war-torn infrastructure or meddling governments got in the way of distribution.
You'll need closed cycle agriculture to keep producing food to cirumvent the problems of droughts, esp. in large cities. And to keep farming on open fields in countries like the Sahel, you need to plant lots of trees - the African Great Green Wall project. And cheap ways for desalinating water like MemStill (membrane destillation) which uses excess heat from industry or power production or solar to create clean drinking water at a low prive (0.40 $/m3).
The GSM starting in 2019 will user in the global famine only hinted at in the 2008 food riots. As time progresses, the end of the interglacial period will hammer down the world's populations and economies.
Somehow I get the feeling that most third world country and other countries that aren't associated with the whole industrialization, will have more land for agriculture and in the future we see where there will be a lots of demand. This could turn some continents who are more into agriculture a huge success. No wonder 🤔 most of the countries where so much interested into African and Indian markets for investment.
Global food crisis is this year... Chinese floods last year, Ukraine War leading to huge drops in wheat production and Russian export bans, then massive fertiliser shortages... 2022 will a special type of bad...
This aged very well. 2022 will be the genesis of a hungry world. I am excited to see millions of people starving to death. Because hungry people create change.
marcos cesar da silva a If you can solve the problem you make the commodities of control (big agriculture, subsidies, government oversight entities “fed, cdc, etc”) obsolete. The last thing they want are independent people.
Millennial Prepster I meant to point out the lack of outspokenness by the inteligencia of our times. For self preservation people do not go that far and honestly many have and are already going. In fact, despite these solutions being wonderful, they fall within the structure of the current paradigm and that is a problem. Something similar to solving the election the last American president waiting four years to still elect somebody else as the solution which means it helps people question the individual and not the structure, in this case políticas&elections, that no longer serve in the new millennium
marcos cesar da silva a I know a lot of intelligent people talking about this. They have been great minds that have been speaking to this for years. Mainstream media won’t give them a platform but the solutions and templates are definitely out there. “The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.” -Bill Mollison-
Population growth is usually tied to resources, but what if instead we work on reducing population growth along with solving the resources problem? Many people have more kids than they can feed, just because social programs foot the bill does not mean they are capable of having more than 2. When people becomes responsible, they see the world under a different light, part of our problems as humans is that we sometimes act like animals, which don't understand that overpopulation can be their Nemesis.
yes there are have Gap. But It is wonderful to tell us that future, strategies agriculture plays a major role in promoting all people around a world, in food production is agriculture on beneficial in eating and in body. The value on calories is value for knowledge, but more importantly in the relationships in traders and cultural building, the production of human capacity how working know eat vegetables, fruit, and eating less meat. so ideas in the global value competition on Western countries or some Asia, know how in a global market is best ideas. but Africa, Perhaps the best countries to have the most rain to agricultural environment excellent but less thinkers. into agricultural support or agricultural technology.
She forgot to take into account the fact that water is disappearing. The Aral sea (4th largest lake in the world just dried up due to over irrigation) Deep water wells are drying up. Rain is not coming due to deforestation. Try multiplying this disaster by 10 over the next 20 years!
@MoralSingularity that's of course a state of emergency - no one can really argue with someone starving. but just be aware that by excessively logging down those forests today, the global ecosystem is going to be fucked up for many generations to come, and the loss of bio-diversity may not be restorable.
Always interesting that people do not make the correlation between overpopulation and food production. It's a positive feedback system - making more food makes more people, period. B b b b but, in some wealthy countries the population does not grow despite more food production. The excess food goes somewhere (or else the farmers would stop growing it pronto). B b b but in some countries they have population explosions with less food productions. What do you think people are made of then I ask? Rainbows and starlight? We are literally made of food. Also, another problem is that biomass is finite. As more biomass is tied to people and food for people less is available for the rest of the ecosystem (watch the even faster decline of other species while this happens). Increasing yields exponentially is a terrible idea - as it only increases population and thus the demand to increase food production - positive feedback. How about we try to just produce the same amount we made last year for once instead of increasing it? The new path should be recognizing the relationship with food that we recognize with every other species but our own. We are not special in this regard and there is literally thousands of years of data to prove it.
It takes roughly 3,500 calories in crops to produce a 410 calorie mcdouble. The reason people starve is because others desire burgers and steaks daily. Just imagine the control the us could have if it stopped consuming so much protein and with the extra calories made other countries dependant.
Alongside reducing food waste, which is absurdly out of control, how about, we cut the population in half at minimum through restricting birth rates somehow, the conversation no one wants to have but literally solves so many of humanities ills and problems. There are way way way too many people on this planet to sustain, period.
Ealdy those places have filled there cap. It occurs on all forms of biological life. When a species doesn’t have a predator they overpopulate until there is no food and then the population stabilizes. Propping up these countries is only going to make it worse for everyone in the future.
I simply don't think the people of earth have enough of a determination to do what is needed until it's too late. And when it's too late, we will simply revert to the old standby, tribalism, and go to war over this. That's all mankind knows. So throw into the mix the issues with water supply, and I think one can see the bleak future mankind faces. Overall, we're just not clever enough to get out of our own way. I surely hope I'm wrong......
How absurd. How unaware. Anybody, everybody can grow all the food they need in a small space in their home or apartment for very little cost. All you need is a few seeds, a little soil, a little water...4 feet wide, 8 feet high is all that is required for 2 people....Vertical Vegetable Gardening
Yeah i'm not really worried about this, population growth is flattening and global warming makes more land arable. Furthermore, if people could just stop being anti-GMO more crops per hectare can be grown. If all else fails meat will become more expensive and the market will make it so less meat is eaten and more plants
Birth control,weight control and redirecting investments in wars and weapon aquisition will dramatically reduce the gap between food consumption and production .
I honestly struggle with figuring out which is more unethical, sterilizing primitive peoples, or letting them spawn and watching their children starve...
ken too nah everyone can have two children after that the more children then thw family have to each give aportion from each family memeber to the new child yup
Who says that they have been incorrect? There is already a food shortage. There is so much malnutrition and starvation! Just because it's the poorest who suffer, doesn't mean it's not there!
The Lion's Mane It's just an idea. Just because she puts it up on TED, doesn't mean that it is perfectly right, or completely wrong. We just don't see the future as well as we want to.
Sara Menker might be right in her overall analysis, but I' am certain that the map she presented of the situation 40 years ago 07:10 is flawed. The calorie-deficit countries all appear in the same shade of red, regardless of the circumstances of each country. For example, Japan had a population roughly twice that of France, living on less than 400K sq km vs 550K sq km in France; and had only about 15% arable land vs a third in France. Were Japanese farmers so much more productive that they could feed twice as many on their approx 60,000 sq km of arable land as the French could on approx 180,000 sq km of arable land? I doubt it.
Any of those models consider people being responsible for the production of their own food and being provided enough land and resources to do that? Or is the only solution a totally narcissistic emotionless AI system?
self supply for vegetables would be the best solution, to also cut down on the amount you can buy from fast foods in one sitting could have some implications to help, but people are so lazy and wont accept a problem before its a problem. its the government, not allowing us to live in a socialism world, we are obliged to buy food because we don't own anything anymore.
China had a one child policy, but the world needs a 2-3 child policy which should be endorsed by the United Nations. I find it tragic that people have 5 to 7 children, which still happens a lot in poor countries.
Más de lo mismo: profundizar la concentración de la industria alimentaria. Sólo que esta vez la clave es en tener grandes cantidades de datos. Ah! Ella vende datos! ¡Qué coincidencia!!! ¿o no?
I admire the speech she has given however, we DO NOT have the solution. The solution suggested here will last one generation at best assuming almost stagnant population growth, the reality is I am afraid far more bleak. Look how human population has doubled through-out human history, every generation. Now ask yourself what happens when you double 9 Billion people.. the reality is we can not indefinitely support population growth. IT is a FACT. The time when this talk is aimed at.. that panic at that point will be how to support 21+ Billion people by 2090.
All people saying go vegan, vegan is not the answer to everything. The current situation with German agriculture and American agriculture is, that there is such a big use of pesticides that in Germany we have 80% less insects than 20 years ago. So I guess in America it is worse as Standards in Germany are quite high. Why were there less people in the Middle Ages? Cause healthcare was worse, and agriculture was less efficient. What was worse there is probably the deforestation in europe.
Anyone know whats happening with the ozone hole where our atmosphere was getting sucked into space and we were all going to die horribly with burning skin falling off our faces and bones.. did we stick a big plaster on it an refer it to out patients for regular check up, i for one am so glad the eco warriors still keep the Ozone front and foremost in all our minds as we try trudge through our first world challenges, with the chilling spectre of our looming inferno daily, so I don't worry about potatoes tomorrow when there are fries today and iPad's to keep the child masses muted and shielded and protected from their firey demise, sometimes it's all I can do not to cry as they struggle to wait for the PS5 or Xbox Scarlett or go PC now with the new RTX range of GPUs. Yes life is hard, so damn hard. But as the Ozone discussion has shown us, ignoring the issue and media spin dosent make it go away and make the environmentalists look for the next apocalypse scenario, or does it hmmmm.
I have to notice that as a former commodities trader she is still very much fond of big business and big government. I tend to agree with most of the things she said, but the issue is giving all the power, all the land to just a few major players. All of this is a big advertisement for large commercial farms to certain extent. It can be interpreted that way, however I do believe that people should own as much land as possible in their respective countries. We cannot just give away our ability to feed ourselves to corporations. Small and mid size farms should coexist with larger businesses also. Ideally, the Government and a corporation could own equal shares of the company, but at the same time individual farmers need to be given a chance to retain control over their own land. All countries need to become self sufficient as much as possible. As much as possible food, resources, etc. If you own some arable land you better hold on to it - the tendency is that larger and larger chunks of land are being purchased and sold worldwide. Meaning that simple people can no longer purchase arable land. Apartments versus houses is also something to say. The tendency is that more and more people move to the cities and live in huge apartment blocks, while not even owning the land. The goal of every country, family, person is to become as much self sufficient (if such a need arises). The only regret I had is that I have not purchased arable land close to the city in Europe where I live. In 7 years the actual value of land in some countries increased 100 - 300 percent. Feeding the world is a good idea, but be sure to have an acre or two for yourself also. Worst case you will be able to rent it out in the future. Another thing worth mentioning is that population growth predictions may change over time. Have a piece of land for yourself also. In a new world, those who will be able to feed themselves and the others will be the free ones. The rest will be in a less fortunate situation.
Food security is global. A Macro economy. A policy commitment. Policy comes from government. Whether that government is “Big” or “Small”. Food is global, this “big” government argument sensitivity is local to USA. How can to mix this two productively? Unfortunately, in today’s world, USA local politics, views has global implications.
locust swarms r already here in india, pakistan, sudan, somalia, yemen, iran. in india 2019 was the year of floods, droughts, hailstorms. millions of farmers r in absolute distress, 11000 registered farmer suicides in one year.
@Aidan Etterer It's looking pretty rational now! You're comment made sense 2 months ago when you made it, but due to the virus, fertilizer shortage, locusts spreading across Africa, the middle East, and Asia, poor crop yields in north America, and countries beginning to ban exports, your comment unfortunately did not age well! :(
The main issue I have with this Talk is that the lady seems to assume that the only reason African farms have low productivity is because of lack of knowledge and supplying farmers with info/technology will change that. She does not mention the fact that keeping the farms at low productivity/low investment is a perfectly rational strategy, because no matter how much you invest in your farm you won't be able to compete with the heavily subsidised EU/US crops.
@@smalltownhomesteadAC where is the lie in the comment above? The west does subsidise their food production and then export to other regions. The other regions are not subsidised.
Maybe if Africa didn't drive out or kill the farmers who were cultivating that land they would be in better shape. Zimbabwe set themselves back decades and South Africa is right on track to make the same mistakes!
Eat insects. They have alot of calories and nutritions but don't need the monstorous amounts of food and water every animal alive(especially cows) need.
I believe I read somewhere that some species of the aquatic plant kelp both fresh water and salt water can actually be eaten by people and be converted by the human digestive system and be used for both nutrients and energy. The Japanese use seaweed as a garnish in some of their foods so the theory is sound; if mankind could find a crop that could be grown off coasts or in rivers and other bodies of fresh water then we would geometrically increase the size of usable farming land to humanity; in might be sound in theory.
It's now about 1.5 years after this TED talk, and things are happening that are not mentioned in this talk. The weather has been doing peculiar things all over the globe, resulting in heavy crop losses in various areas and some farms closing down as a result. Whether the climate is warming, or cooling -- only one thing is not debatable: Climate is altering, and it's hitting agriculture hard. It will take time for farming methods to adjust to these unusual weather conditions, and in the meantime there will be continued large crop losses. One of the most sustainable solutions that could be practiced immediately and sustained in most parts of the world is if people who are not "farmers" begin growing as much of their own food as they can (even turning a portion of one's back yard into a vegetable garden would help).
And now non-weather issues added to that since your post(covid lockdowns and war), we better have a worldwide bumper crop this year or things could get famineeeee.
Soon there will be a global event, an international conference organized by the people themselves, "Global Crisis. We are people. We want to Live," on the Creative Society channel. They will tell us the truth about what's really waiting for us if we don't all come together.
I thought that lab-grown meat was going to be the solution. Labs can now grow highly nutritious "meat" for a low price. Moreover, the biotechnology revolution will enable GMO crops to grow in harsh conditions.
Charles GMOs are not the solution now like they were not the solution during the "Green revolution". They will only help already developed country, which is not the point.
lab meat needs fetal bovine serum to be produced - that means killing a pregnant cow & then draining all the unborn baby's blood to kill it & then using that blood to grow the meat. No thanks! GM is stupid! Well it's not, but those controlling it are using it purely for profit, so it's a lost cause! Why would you use GM corn when you can simply grow a genetically diverse corn like painted mountain corn & within 2-3 seasons of planting the best seed from your crop, you have corn PERFECTLY suited to your conditions. Then again, why would you even grow corn when sorghum produces as much food but can tolerate droughts & uses much less food & water. Then of course there's NASA's Mars potato experiment that found 8 different species of potatoes capable of growing in the toughest conditions on earth or mars, with no gm needed
& China doesn't need verticle farms, they're spending billions on farmland & water projects for them in Africa, which is just as well, because verticle farms are a novelty for hippies wanting super fresh leafy greens & herbs. No-one's using them for anything that actually needs high light & nutrients, or produces significant calories
This is a very complex problem. I do believe though, that FASTING can not only change our health to the better but it can also help with this global problem. I am talking about sustainable fasting. Fasting that can change the way we live, the way we think and the way we behave. Eating, for example, one meal a day is not only a great prevention of noncommunicable diseases but it also saves our decision processes and in the end of a day, the resources of our planet.
*_It all came about after a project I worked on to design a green subdivision with many others. I thought I could do more and started gathering info. That was when G+ was still invite only. A village is a 50 million dollar undertaken. Then broke it down to a what I call Dartanyan's Restaurant & Farm but again that was 5 million dollar undertaken. So I decided trying a homeless shelter with my knowledge._* *1.9848 acre per person living in a sustainable village (234 people and 464.4432 acres for the village)* 80% crafted, made and grown in said village And 20% are raw materials, food not grown, medical equipment/supplies, electronics and etc. - 0.6250 acre of farmland/person (146.2500ac) - 0.0892 acre of farmland products to be sold/person (20.8728ac) - 0.2321 acre of living area/person (54.3114ac) - 0.0214 acre of wine vineyards/person (5.0076ac) - 0.0714 acre of ponds/person (16.7076ac) - 0.1069 acre of coffee/person or 3,456 trees (25.0146ac) [555 trees/2.4711 acres or 1 Hectare] - 0.0071 acre of teas/person (1.6614ac) - 0.0142 acre of herbs/person (3.3228ac) - 0.1428 acre of schools/person (33.4152ac) - 0.2142 acre of park & wildlife/person (50.1228ac) - 0.1428 acre of village square/person (33.4152ac) - 0.1785 acre of livestock/person (41.7690ac) - 0.1392 acre of roads & etc/person (32.5728ac) _________________________________________________________________ *By using a mix of permaculture and aquaponics which in turn use 90% less water to grow food and a minimum of twice as fast :* * Reduces Labor by 75% * Reuses 95% of the water * Low Electricity Need (use solar to stay off the grid) * Faster Vegetable * Longer Shelf Life * Organic Mineral Rich * Produces Its own Fertilizer * Non-Contaminated Fish * Use of Tiger Shrimp &/or Crawfish to clean algae * Uses of the Bacteria and fecal matter are collected to make Methane in place of natural gas &/or Decomposed solids to worm bin which turn is used to make Compost Tea is brewed from worm casting and water. The tea can be used for Fruit Orchard to increase Microbial Content in the soil. __________________________________________________________________ *The Helpful Garden* The idea is to design a homeless shelter using Aquaponics and permaculture to feed them as well as make money for them. Each place will have 9 to 13 (12 x 18) 216 sq ft building for living in. So the *"Helpful Garden"* will be shelter to up to 13 people as well as a farmers market. The one thing about homeless shelters is that one can be built every 80 miles about or so. I can see a minimum of 3000 homeless shelters of the "Helpful Garden" being built worldwide. (Powered by solar & wind) To build said place is about $500,000 depending where it built. Though it won't need donation or government grants to run for all it's money comes from it farmers market. *Profits:* 40% profit breakdown: Money needed for sheltered women: $15,000/each allotted to each tiny home each year. plus stables (Example: coffee, sugar, flour, salt and pepper) 60% profit breakdown: 10% to building new Helpful Gardens 20% to maintenance 15% to college grants 15% to etc. *_Budget : $500,000_* *1.)* Land : 3+ acres (Budget $25,000.00 or less) *2.)* Tiny Homes: 9 to 13 (12 x 18) 216 sq ft [on ½ acre] (Budget $156,000.00 or less) *3.)* Intake Office: 600 Sq ft (Budget $25,000.00 or less) *4.)* Farmers Market: ½ acre (Budget $45,000.00 or less) *5.)* Parking Lot: ¼ acre (Budget $5,000.00) *6.)* Aquaponics and Permaculture Farm: 1 ¾ acres (Budget $109,000.00 or more) a.) Up to 3 different fish b.) Tiger shrimp c.) Crayfish d.) 3 different apple and pears trees so [to have them throughout the year] e.) Citrus trees like lemons, oranges and 2 two others. f.) Chickens (meat and eggs) g.) Goats (milk and cheese) h.) Honey Bees 4 to 6 hives i.) 2 fig trees (maybe) j.) Freshwater mussels (maybe) k.) Rabbits (maybe) *_Powered : [Total Budget $135,000.00]_* *1.)* Solar (Budget $90,000) a.) Tiny Homes 13 set of 4 - 250 watt cell with light sensors (52 solar cells) cost between $27,287.00 and $36,387.00 b.) Aquaponics System - (?) c.) Intake Office - set of 6 - 250 watt cell with light sensors (cost between $3,148.50 and $4,198.50) d.) Farmers Market - (?) *2.)* Wind Power - (Budget $45,000) a.) Windmill electric generator 15 to 30 KW cost between $18,000 - $48,000 ________________________________________________________________________ *Just some working notes:* Payroll for security : $3,900/wk $16,900/mo $202,800/yr 3 full time: ($24/hr) $2,880/wk $12,480/mo $149,760/yr 4 part time: 17 hour work week ($15/hr) $1,020/wk $4,420/mo $53,040/yr Payroll for gardeners : same as security Volunteers : 36 (though it's like $6/hr to help pay for their gas and childcare if needed). $4,320/wk $18,720/mo $224,640/yr Total payroll : $427,440/yr Money needed for sheltered women: $144,000/yr or $12,000/each allotted to each tiny home (12) Money of the other 60% profit equals $270,000 $450,000 plus payroll equals $958,769.04 Needed $263.34/hr@70/hr@52/wk=$958,769.04 235,000 lbs vegetables @$0.5/lb=$32.28/hr or 64.56 lbs/hr or 645.5 lbs/day 30,000 lbs fish/crayfish/shrimp @ $3/lbs = $247.251/day or $90,000.00/yr *These are all low ball figures* $174,720 online sales per year $117,500 vegetable sale per year $90,000.00 meat sales per year $500 honey sales per year At point soda sales per year Snack & hot food sale per year Cloths & wares sales per year Frozen food sales per year Canning goods sales per year Dairy/cheese sales per year
The map that shows the self-sufficient and importers of calories 40 years ago is somewhat wrong. Take a look at Cambodia, a country which locates in South East Asia with highlighted blue. No, we were so poor 40 years old, between 1975-1979, my country was in genocide regime led by Pol Pot, the people were forced to overwork without getting enough foods to eat or survive, approximately 2 millions of people were killed.
Or.... stop feeding key grains to food? Yes, I know it's a consumption pattern and so, not subject of the talk, but maybe putting in place global bans on how much food can be fed to food would help? Like, a global agreement to reduce current 40% to like 20%?
When you dismiss demand (i.e., birthrate) and look to "governments" or "studies" to focus on and address demand, then it is not possible to identify the problem. Generally speaking, when you intentionally refuse to identify any given problem, you will only find an effective solution by accident.
and u r right.....
It's here this year in 2022 :-( I hope it doesn't end up being as bad as I think it will
This is nothing, im a farmer and next year we wont have enough fertilizer worldwide wich will plummit production in all sectors.
We farmers warned for this and still even in holland the goverment is actively destroying farms for green agendas.
We farmers will do our best
@@basboer1043 I suspect in the near future everybody is going to think about farming or become farmers
Its hard for me to take this seriously when the US alone throws out nearly half the food we make, and we're still fat AF.
microbuilder so what!
Half of the food is given to by federal programs.
That's because the US is very advanced in agriculture compared to a lot of other countries.
its because our food comes from other countries
because of all the sugar
microbuilder so scared of protein deficiency, lazy so we buy food that takes years to go bad that we went a tad overboard
Grow your own food. A very small plot is enough to grow sufficient food for a family of perhaps 10 people. Just stay away from Monsanto seeds.
Sure, if only we had enough fertile land for that.
I think in urban (or even suburban) areas, for the AVERAGE family, finding enough land to become self-sufficient in food would be almost impossible. Probably the best that the (average) family can do is to spare a bedroom.
Using hydroponics, food farming techniques etc., how much food/calories/nutrients can we grow in that room? What would be extra cost of that endeavour? Overall, would it be profitable, under different prevailing economic/social/cultural conditions? How would it work in different parts of the world - in the first world, second world, and third world countries, for instance?
Individual gardening is more environmentally friendly and more convenient than commercial garden. How many can't or don't feed themselves? It's shocking how people's do weird things to beg dollar for food. Why not cut all the bullshits out and just grow ur foods. Bad poor education I say.
@@howardkong8927 there's more than enuff land. Some one quoted the other day that just America lawns cud feed half the world. Can't eat grass friends! More than enuff space. Get rid of commercial farming and spread the people's on that land and we cud produce a 100 times more foods. Mono culture against poly culture I think.
Small spaces can produce far more foods if managed right. People's grow on walls roofs every space they can use. Space isn't a problem. Water really isn't a problem, actually growing isn't a problem. It's getting lazy people's to realise they can't rely on others. Built a poor paupers society we have. Growing is the only answer. And trust its easier for one man to get his own than that commercial rubbish.
I'd like to see every home and school in the world with at least an indoor vertical garden! :D
Why not to work on population control instead. In developed countries already population is in control but in developing country, have one child policy.
Why to live a life of insect with more population , have smaller family then live with more resources per capita
I share this vision
I don't think a vertical garden will feed 50 or so children one man in Africa has on average, instead of Africans focusing on producing more food for citizens, how bout they stop producing citizens, say one child policy, half the world population in 50 years, it will happen one way or another.
@@lordhater4207 I agree that we should all plant food everywhere. And I think we should share it freely. But you make yourself sound like a MAGA bigot with your comment.
@@sanjuansteve Facts are African countries average 6 children per women whilst developed first world countries average 1,5 and whilst you can supplement or feed a family on a single vertical garden, you can't feed average 8 people on it, no way especially if you take into account what this woman said, mainly caloric value rather than just mass, plus all of it (the gardens) hinge on availability of fresh water which we don't have enough especially in Africa second thing chemical fertilisers not present, which then returns us to the biggest problem food production faces....people. more people more problems, cut number of people and spend within your means you won't have an issue with starvation, children won't have to suffer and neither would adults, cut the number of people and you will have enough it is the most rational solution.
In 2017, the world produced enough calories to feed 11 billion people. We have a transportation and waste issue before we have production problem
Facts. Very interesting
This is awesome in the true sense of the world. How amazing that TED and UA-cam are making the propagation of this message possible. I will be changing my behaviors and sharing this.
"This is the first time that I'm sharing what we discovered."
So no peer review yet then? Cool, glad we're portraying this as fact.
Maybe she meant, this is the first time they are sharing this information with the rest of the world, aka Public!
It's actually going to be much worse than she is making out. This is not the only problem we will face regarding famine. With the worlds population just peaking we may need less food in 50 years from now on-wards but water is going to be an issue over those next 50 years. We need to plant trees like never before. We need to put a stop to deforestation and desertification. We need to stop overeating and to stop wasting food. Many of the countries that import could grow for themselves but without solving these other issues you can expect to see famine. Now, whatever the media choose to report and what they blame it on is another issue. Institutions are evil!
If you want to see some realistic predictions, consult the FAO and not Tedx.
The Chinese have already figured this out... Have you ever heard of their one Road one belt initiative to take over India and Africa? They have already locked up 11 African countries. And they are not doing this with goodness in their hearts. China is the new pre-world war 2 Hitler Germany..
So is this base purely on the import and export of calories from each country? And if so how do we know that is directly tied to if there is enough calories for the population?
Its the best possible scenario.
She talked about not all foods being made equal, yet didn't differentiate between any types of food - only talking about calories. This is exactly the wrong way of approaching this issue.
Good health is not achieved through calories entirely sourced from fat, sugar or other poor quality foods. Our bodies require vitamins, minerals...NUTRIENTS! SOME of which nutrients happen to contain dietary calories - essential fats, carbs and high quality plant proteins. Defining food security based upon raw calories is misguided, and increasingly so, as more and more of the caloric foods produced in the world are of lower and lower nutrient density.
We are already in a food crisis. Parts of the world are plagued by life threatening vitamin and mineral deficiencies, over-reliance upon poor quality protein crops, natural plant toxicants and microbiologically compromised crops. Not even to mention all the obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, cancer, inflammatory and metabolic diseases caused by people not just in western countries, but globally, consuming far too many calories and not enough nutrients!!!
Not fats and sugars, just essential fats and carbs. Right.
bbbbrrrzzt to maintain satisfactory health our bodies need polyunsaturated fats, starch, fiber, simple sugars, protein, vitamins, minerals and polyphenols. They do not need saturated fat, cholesterol or free sugars. Hope that clears it up
None of that matters if you don't have calories.
Ealdy ...not really. You'd die of vitamin deficiencies months and months before you would ever die of not getting enough calories.
Actually, due to the biological mechanism known as "ketosis," carbohydrates (which include any form of sugar, simple or other) are not essential for human bodies and satisfactory health. However, it wouldn't be viable to have everyone (or even a majority) on a diet without carbs.
We are already producing food for 9 billion people,but sadly much of it is going to waste...
We will solve it when it will start to become the problem.
They've been telling this to us at least since Malthus ...Erlich was telling us 50 years ago to get ready imminently for hundreds of millions of starvation deaths all over the world ...food prices have gone down and up and down since 2008 ...most famines of recent decades occurred despite ample available food, rotting in cargo ships etc., while war-torn infrastructure or meddling governments got in the way of distribution.
You'll need closed cycle agriculture to keep producing food to cirumvent the problems of droughts, esp. in large cities. And to keep farming on open fields in countries like the Sahel, you need to plant lots of trees - the African Great Green Wall project. And cheap ways for desalinating water like MemStill (membrane destillation) which uses excess heat from industry or power production or solar to create clean drinking water at a low prive (0.40 $/m3).
The GSM starting in 2019 will user in the global famine only hinted at in the 2008 food riots. As time progresses, the end of the interglacial period will hammer down the world's populations and economies.
Whats up with her charts?
tougher regulation on food waste and investments in agriculture around the globe.
this aged very well
Somehow I get the feeling that most third world country and other countries that aren't associated with the whole industrialization, will have more land for agriculture and in the future we see where there will be a lots of demand.
This could turn some continents who are more into agriculture a huge success.
No wonder 🤔 most of the countries where so much interested into African and Indian markets for investment.
Global food crisis is this year... Chinese floods last year, Ukraine War leading to huge drops in wheat production and Russian export bans, then massive fertiliser shortages... 2022 will a special type of bad...
This aged very well. 2022 will be the genesis of a hungry world.
I am excited to see millions of people starving to death. Because hungry people create change.
Haha you füçking madman
@Microbuilder After this years flooding do you still think we have surplus food for the entire world?
Were getting closer and closer 😟
Soylent Green
Why you made no mention of vertical farms which uses a tenth of the water for cultivation and needs no land??
marcos cesar da silva a
If you can solve the problem you make the commodities of control (big agriculture, subsidies, government oversight entities “fed, cdc, etc”) obsolete. The last thing they want are independent people.
Millennial Prepster I meant to point out the lack of outspokenness by the inteligencia of our times. For self preservation people do not go that far and honestly many have and are already going. In fact, despite these solutions being wonderful, they fall within the structure of the current paradigm and that is a problem. Something similar to solving the election the last American president waiting four years to still elect somebody else as the solution which means it helps people question the individual and not the structure, in this case políticas&elections, that no longer serve in the new millennium
marcos cesar da silva a
I know a lot of intelligent people talking about this. They have been great minds that have been speaking to this for years. Mainstream media won’t give them a platform but the solutions and templates are definitely out there.
“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.”
-Bill Mollison-
In UK same time
Who’s watching during the coronavirus?
Yup, couldn't help but to see this coming & now................... It has arrived.
Population growth is usually tied to resources, but what if instead we work on reducing population growth along with solving the resources problem? Many people have more kids than they can feed, just because social programs foot the bill does not mean they are capable of having more than 2. When people becomes responsible, they see the world under a different light, part of our problems as humans is that we sometimes act like animals, which don't understand that overpopulation can be their Nemesis.
yes there are have Gap. But It is wonderful to tell us that future, strategies agriculture plays a major role in promoting all people around a world, in food production is agriculture on beneficial in eating and in body.
The value on calories is value for knowledge, but more importantly in the relationships in traders and cultural building, the production of human capacity how working know eat vegetables, fruit, and eating less meat. so ideas in the global value competition on Western countries or some Asia, know how in a global market is best ideas. but Africa, Perhaps the best countries to have the most rain to agricultural environment excellent but less thinkers. into agricultural support or agricultural technology.
She forgot to take into account the fact that water is disappearing. The Aral sea (4th largest lake in the world just dried up due to over irrigation) Deep water wells are drying up. Rain is not coming due to deforestation. Try multiplying this disaster by 10 over the next 20 years!
How is this material in extreme humidity or extreme heat?
How is it for absorption and drying time?
we are in crises right now
Hang on I thought everything was GM nowadays why can't you make it drought or cold resistant for example..
Interesting, less than a decade away! Here we are today with many reporting shortages and ships not allowed to port
what does she mean her past life LOL
Janna GriveoCanada It's an expression... Have you ever heard of figurative language?
it's stupid new age talk. she is implying an earlier point in her life is a 'previous life'.
Just when I thought that that the only problem would be the water running out , now The food will be a problem too?
guess she never thought of fertilizer shortage
Everyone. It's all good. We can relax.
Breatharians have the answer...
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Big Mac
SOUTH AMERICA IS GOING TO GET RICH BABY
SOUTH AMERICA BABY!!!!! IT'S A MASTAHPEICE!!!!
You really liked this talk to comment 4 times dude @.@
its forests are SO much more valuable than any monetary riches you can imagine...
@MoralSingularity
that's of course a state of emergency - no one can really argue with someone starving.
but just be aware that by excessively logging down those forests today, the global ecosystem is going to be fucked up for many generations to come, and the loss of bio-diversity may not be restorable.
Always interesting that people do not make the correlation between overpopulation and food production. It's a positive feedback system - making more food makes more people, period. B b b b but, in some wealthy countries the population does not grow despite more food production. The excess food goes somewhere (or else the farmers would stop growing it pronto). B b b but in some countries they have population explosions with less food productions. What do you think people are made of then I ask? Rainbows and starlight? We are literally made of food. Also, another problem is that biomass is finite. As more biomass is tied to people and food for people less is available for the rest of the ecosystem (watch the even faster decline of other species while this happens). Increasing yields exponentially is a terrible idea - as it only increases population and thus the demand to increase food production - positive feedback. How about we try to just produce the same amount we made last year for once instead of increasing it? The new path should be recognizing the relationship with food that we recognize with every other species but our own. We are not special in this regard and there is literally thousands of years of data to prove it.
It’s 5 years later and it’s already starting
It takes roughly 3,500 calories in crops to produce a 410 calorie mcdouble. The reason people starve is because others desire burgers and steaks daily.
Just imagine the control the us could have if it stopped consuming so much protein and with the extra calories made other countries dependant.
Alongside reducing food waste, which is absurdly out of control, how about, we cut the population in half at minimum through restricting birth rates somehow, the conversation no one wants to have but literally solves so many of humanities ills and problems. There are way way way too many people on this planet to sustain, period.
How about not paying for farms to be idle in the USA
Stop making 6-12 kids would help, didn't hear her mention that.
Because you can't stop people from having children without a strong authoritarian government. Her solutions are much more reasonable.
Poe Tato especially people from her part of the world
Poe Tati
Thats too much common sense for most to handle
Ealdy those places have filled there cap. It occurs on all forms of biological life. When a species doesn’t have a predator they overpopulate until there is no food and then the population stabilizes. Propping up these countries is only going to make it worse for everyone in the future.
Your Informations are antiqued.
And it may not be. Increased temperature and CO2, both of them increase plant growth.
She is brilliant no notes or prompts .
The truth is Africa will have to feed the world. We’ve known this for a while.
Go vegan!
No....
We're trying to FIX the problem NOT make it worse!
I simply don't think the people of earth have enough of a determination to do what is needed until it's too late. And when it's too late, we will simply revert to the old standby, tribalism, and go to war over this. That's all mankind knows. So throw into the mix the issues with water supply, and I think one can see the bleak future mankind faces. Overall, we're just not clever enough to get out of our own way. I surely hope I'm wrong......
You are absolutely right, too many don’t research and keep their heads in the sand!!!!
How absurd. How unaware. Anybody, everybody can grow all the food they need in a small space in their home or apartment for very little cost. All you need is a few seeds, a little soil, a little water...4 feet wide, 8 feet high is all that is required for 2 people....Vertical Vegetable Gardening
Yeah i'm not really worried about this, population growth is flattening and global warming makes more land arable. Furthermore, if people could just stop being anti-GMO more crops per hectare can be grown. If all else fails meat will become more expensive and the market will make it so less meat is eaten and more plants
Birth control,weight control and redirecting investments in wars and weapon aquisition will dramatically reduce the gap between food consumption and production .
Sterilization. Slow down fertilization.
ken too I agree, we have more than enough people, not even taking into account those who are overeating and those who are starving
do you realise how unethical this is?
Wtf! Sure taking people's freedom away is the perfect solution!
I honestly struggle with figuring out which is more unethical, sterilizing primitive peoples, or letting them spawn and watching their children starve...
ken too nah everyone can have two children after that the more children then thw family have to each give aportion from each family memeber to the new child yup
Sure, just because everyone else in the history of the world has been incorrect about global food shortages, you're definitely right.
The Lion's Mane you really have no clue about population growth and resource availability. But just so you don't have to change your life style.
Who says that they have been incorrect? There is already a food shortage. There is so much malnutrition and starvation! Just because it's the poorest who suffer, doesn't mean it's not there!
Sure, no one can predict the rain accurately, so you don't ever need an umbrella.
right... because there have never been famines before
The Lion's Mane It's just an idea. Just because she puts it up on TED, doesn't mean that it is perfectly right, or completely wrong.
We just don't see the future as well as we want to.
Sara Menker might be right in her overall analysis, but I' am certain that the map she presented of the situation 40 years ago 07:10 is flawed. The calorie-deficit countries all appear in the same shade of red, regardless of the circumstances of each country. For example, Japan had a population roughly twice that of France, living on less than 400K sq km vs 550K sq km in France; and had only about 15% arable land vs a third in France. Were Japanese farmers so much more productive that they could feed twice as many on their approx 60,000 sq km of arable land as the French could on approx 180,000 sq km of arable land? I doubt it.
C4 rice is on development. 8 to 10 percent increase in calorie.
Lol doomsday lecturers want our money
Alex Jones of the left comes in many forms.
Pretty sure she didn't ask you to invest in Africa.
Any of those models consider people being responsible for the production of their own food and being provided enough land and resources to do that? Or is the only solution a totally narcissistic emotionless AI system?
No need to make more food. Lets stop putting food away and start eating less
It's true, but Indians having capabilities to sustain ourselves and generate more food and reduce waste,........
self supply for vegetables would be the best solution, to also cut down on the amount you can buy from fast foods in one sitting could have some implications to help, but people are so lazy and wont accept a problem before its a problem. its the government, not allowing us to live in a socialism world, we are obliged to buy food because we don't own anything anymore.
China had a one child policy, but the world needs a 2-3 child policy which should be endorsed by the United Nations. I find it tragic that people have 5 to 7 children, which still happens a lot in poor countries.
The needed policy is "all people of the world should have access to affordable birth control of their choice & free education on it's use"
Más de lo mismo: profundizar la concentración de la industria alimentaria. Sólo que esta vez la clave es en tener grandes cantidades de datos. Ah! Ella vende datos! ¡Qué coincidencia!!! ¿o no?
Half way there.... I'll put this comment reminder in my calendar for 5 years time.
I admire the speech she has given however, we DO NOT have the solution. The solution suggested here will last one generation at best assuming almost stagnant population growth, the reality is I am afraid far more bleak. Look how human population has doubled through-out human history, every generation. Now ask yourself what happens when you double 9 Billion people.. the reality is we can not indefinitely support population growth. IT is a FACT. The time when this talk is aimed at.. that panic at that point will be how to support 21+ Billion people by 2090.
All people saying go vegan, vegan is not the answer to everything. The current situation with German agriculture and American agriculture is, that there is such a big use of pesticides that in Germany we have 80% less insects than 20 years ago. So I guess in America it is worse as Standards in Germany are quite high. Why were there less people in the Middle Ages? Cause healthcare was worse, and agriculture was less efficient. What was worse there is probably the deforestation in europe.
Anyone know whats happening with the ozone hole where our atmosphere was getting sucked into space and we were all going to die horribly with burning skin falling off our faces and bones.. did we stick a big plaster on it an refer it to out patients for regular check up, i for one am so glad the eco warriors still keep the Ozone front and foremost in all our minds as we try trudge through our first world challenges, with the chilling spectre of our looming inferno daily, so I don't worry about potatoes tomorrow when there are fries today and iPad's to keep the child masses muted and shielded and protected from their firey demise, sometimes it's all I can do not to cry as they struggle to wait for the PS5 or Xbox Scarlett or go PC now with the new RTX range of GPUs. Yes life is hard, so damn hard. But as the Ozone discussion has shown us, ignoring the issue and media spin dosent make it go away and make the environmentalists look for the next apocalypse scenario, or does it hmmmm.
Brilliant
India has lot of potential in agriCulture sector. Far more than china. This might help
Sometimes you can set the speed to 1.25
It's one of those times
good advice. I found 1.5 acceptable.
I watch all my videos 1.5 or 1.75 x speed except songs
@@grahamt5924 funny how at 1.5 there are still long uncomfortable pauses.
Great tip!
I have to notice that as a former commodities trader she is still very much fond of big business and big government. I tend to agree with most of the things she said, but the issue is giving all the power, all the land to just a few major players.
All of this is a big advertisement for large commercial farms to certain extent. It can be interpreted that way, however I do believe that people should own as much land as possible in their respective countries.
We cannot just give away our ability to feed ourselves to corporations. Small and mid size farms should coexist with larger businesses also.
Ideally, the Government and a corporation could own equal shares of the company, but at the same time individual farmers need to be given a chance to retain control over their own land.
All countries need to become self sufficient as much as possible. As much as possible food, resources, etc.
If you own some arable land you better hold on to it - the tendency is that larger and larger chunks of land are being purchased and sold worldwide. Meaning that simple people can no longer purchase arable land.
Apartments versus houses is also something to say. The tendency is that more and more people move to the cities and live in huge apartment blocks, while not even owning the land.
The goal of every country, family, person is to become as much self sufficient (if such a need arises).
The only regret I had is that I have not purchased arable land close to the city in Europe where I live. In 7 years the actual value of land in some countries increased 100 - 300 percent.
Feeding the world is a good idea, but be sure to have an acre or two for yourself also. Worst case you will be able to rent it out in the future.
Another thing worth mentioning is that population growth predictions may change over time. Have a piece of land for yourself also. In a new world, those who will be able to feed themselves and the others will be the free ones. The rest will be in a less fortunate situation.
yup
Food security is global. A Macro economy. A policy commitment. Policy comes from government. Whether that government is “Big” or “Small”. Food is global, this “big” government argument sensitivity is local to USA. How can to mix this two productively? Unfortunately, in today’s world, USA local politics, views has global implications.
Localism and Distributism now!
welp.....here we are.
yes...
She is talking economics without any economics.
Least the shirt she was wearing was interesting
Decade... aren't you optimistic! Within 2 years expect catastrophic agricultural collapse globally.
I AGREE 200%!!!!!
locust swarms r already here in india, pakistan, sudan, somalia, yemen, iran.
in india 2019 was the year of floods, droughts, hailstorms.
millions of farmers r in absolute distress, 11000 registered farmer suicides in one year.
@Aidan Etterer It's looking pretty rational now! You're comment made sense 2 months ago when you made it, but due to the virus, fertilizer shortage, locusts spreading across Africa, the middle East, and Asia, poor crop yields in north America, and countries beginning to ban exports, your comment unfortunately did not age well! :(
well about that-
The main issue I have with this Talk is that the lady seems to assume that the only reason African farms have low productivity is because of lack of knowledge and supplying farmers with info/technology will change that. She does not mention the fact that keeping the farms at low productivity/low investment is a perfectly rational strategy, because no matter how much you invest in your farm you won't be able to compete with the heavily subsidised EU/US crops.
Yes, it's alway's the fault of the west. Never some-one else's fault or responsibility. Good grief. You never learn.
@@smalltownhomesteadAC where is the lie in the comment above? The west does subsidise their food production and then export to other regions. The other regions are not subsidised.
All of you have to look past this. Or at least have a few brain cells working for you to go out and prep some calories for future use.
Maybe if Africa didn't drive out or kill the farmers who were cultivating that land they would be in better shape. Zimbabwe set themselves back decades and South Africa is right on track to make the same mistakes!
EU/AU dont sell food to Africa, Africa can sell food to Africa... There are so many places in Africa with food shortage
You know better when you already plan it
Well livestock has been on the decline since colonialism in the U.S.A. has taken flight. So there goes all the Big Macs.
Eat insects. They have alot of calories and nutritions but don't need the monstorous amounts of food and water every animal alive(especially cows) need.
I believe I read somewhere that some species of the aquatic plant kelp both fresh water and salt water can actually be eaten by people and be converted by the human digestive system and be used for both nutrients and energy. The Japanese use seaweed as a garnish in some of their foods so the theory is sound; if mankind could find a crop that could be grown off coasts or in rivers and other bodies of fresh water then we would geometrically increase the size of usable farming land to humanity; in might be sound in theory.
It's now about 1.5 years after this TED talk, and things are happening that are not mentioned in this talk. The weather has been doing peculiar things all over the globe, resulting in heavy crop losses in various areas and some farms closing down as a result. Whether the climate is warming, or cooling -- only one thing is not debatable: Climate is altering, and it's hitting agriculture hard. It will take time for farming methods to adjust to these unusual weather conditions, and in the meantime there will be continued large crop losses. One of the most sustainable solutions that could be practiced immediately and sustained in most parts of the world is if people who are not "farmers" begin growing as much of their own food as they can (even turning a portion of one's back yard into a vegetable garden would help).
reducing the ridiculous amounts of waste in food production would help too!
And now non-weather issues added to that since your post(covid lockdowns and war), we better have a worldwide bumper crop this year or things could get famineeeee.
food crisis is real now
no we are about to enter the worst food crisis in decades most likely way worse than 2008 unless we get really lucky
Soon there will be a global event, an international conference organized by the people themselves, "Global Crisis. We are people. We want to Live," on the Creative Society channel. They will tell us the truth about what's really waiting for us if we don't all come together.
Cannibalisme anyone? Let’s bring it back!
I wonder how much food wastage contributes to this issue.
and all due to 2-for-1 discounts. oh the irony
Name last name, we sure love a discount!!! Hahahahhh
Massively does food waste contribute. America's just had massive floods and now all corn/wheat is wasted. The climate is "wasting" crops as we speak.
America is in for the biggest shock. People's in other countries no how to go without, Americans don't. Oh how America's burger dream is collapsing.
2 4 1 lol..... if there wasn't so much of it, it wouldn't be so cheap and thrown in the dustbin.
Commercial farming is not only communistic but it creates higher amounts of pests and pollution.
The dust bowl was created from commercial farming.
I thought that lab-grown meat was going to be the solution. Labs can now grow highly nutritious "meat" for a low price. Moreover, the biotechnology revolution will enable GMO crops to grow in harsh conditions.
Charles yeah and vertical farms save so much space. China can benefit the most from this i think
Charles GMOs are not the solution now like they were not the solution during the "Green revolution". They will only help already developed country, which is not the point.
Naa its still about £500 to grow one burger
lab meat needs fetal bovine serum to be produced - that means killing a pregnant cow & then draining all the unborn baby's blood to kill it & then using that blood to grow the meat. No thanks!
GM is stupid! Well it's not, but those controlling it are using it purely for profit, so it's a lost cause! Why would you use GM corn when you can simply grow a genetically diverse corn like painted mountain corn & within 2-3 seasons of planting the best seed from your crop, you have corn PERFECTLY suited to your conditions. Then again, why would you even grow corn when sorghum produces as much food but can tolerate droughts & uses much less food & water.
Then of course there's NASA's Mars potato experiment that found 8 different species of potatoes capable of growing in the toughest conditions on earth or mars, with no gm needed
& China doesn't need verticle farms, they're spending billions on farmland & water projects for them in Africa, which is just as well, because verticle farms are a novelty for hippies wanting super fresh leafy greens & herbs. No-one's using them for anything that actually needs high light & nutrients, or produces significant calories
The shift is Covid19 and we can see how all that the speaker is saying is currently happening.
Covid and supply chain disruptions and extreme weather events is making this come true.
Summarize: reform Africa's agriculture, now!
Biggest problem is the people who should be speaking are silent and the people who should be quiet are speaking
yea I just wrote a massive post and then didn't post it!
White vs Black..my remedy whites use more opiates, and heroin, problem solved
Wow who is 2022 here?
You forgot that we have not discovered enough phosphorous resources to feed the planet past 2030
Please where can I find more info about the phosphorous , it is not available in the environment and it can not be created Synthetically in a lab?
Go woke go broke.
Bottom line, 2/3 of the population just needs to walk into the ocean.
Idiot
Can you be first
zombie apocalypse
Or try to control population growth by having fewer children?!
This is a very complex problem. I do believe though, that FASTING can not only change our health to the better but it can also help with this global problem. I am talking about sustainable fasting. Fasting that can change the way we live, the way we think and the way we behave. Eating, for example, one meal a day is not only a great prevention of noncommunicable diseases but it also saves our decision processes and in the end of a day, the resources of our planet.
Whos here in 2020
Not so funny now right !!
God have Mercy on us all !!
*_It all came about after a project I worked on to design a green subdivision with many others. I thought I could do more and started gathering info. That was when G+ was still invite only. A village is a 50 million dollar undertaken. Then broke it down to a what I call Dartanyan's Restaurant & Farm but again that was 5 million dollar undertaken. So I decided trying a homeless shelter with my knowledge._*
*1.9848 acre per person living in a sustainable village (234 people and 464.4432 acres for the village)*
80% crafted, made and grown in said village And 20% are raw materials, food not grown, medical equipment/supplies, electronics and etc.
- 0.6250 acre of farmland/person (146.2500ac)
- 0.0892 acre of farmland products to be sold/person (20.8728ac)
- 0.2321 acre of living area/person (54.3114ac)
- 0.0214 acre of wine vineyards/person (5.0076ac)
- 0.0714 acre of ponds/person (16.7076ac)
- 0.1069 acre of coffee/person or 3,456 trees (25.0146ac) [555 trees/2.4711 acres or 1 Hectare]
- 0.0071 acre of teas/person (1.6614ac)
- 0.0142 acre of herbs/person (3.3228ac)
- 0.1428 acre of schools/person (33.4152ac)
- 0.2142 acre of park & wildlife/person (50.1228ac)
- 0.1428 acre of village square/person (33.4152ac)
- 0.1785 acre of livestock/person (41.7690ac)
- 0.1392 acre of roads & etc/person (32.5728ac)
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*By using a mix of permaculture and aquaponics which in turn use 90% less water to grow food and a minimum of twice as fast :*
* Reduces Labor by 75%
* Reuses 95% of the water
* Low Electricity Need (use solar to stay off the grid)
* Faster Vegetable
* Longer Shelf Life
* Organic Mineral Rich
* Produces Its own Fertilizer
* Non-Contaminated Fish
* Use of Tiger Shrimp &/or Crawfish to clean algae
* Uses of the Bacteria and fecal matter are collected to make Methane in place of natural gas &/or Decomposed solids to worm bin which turn is used to make Compost Tea is brewed from worm casting and water. The tea can be used for Fruit Orchard to increase Microbial Content in the soil.
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*The Helpful Garden*
The idea is to design a homeless shelter using Aquaponics and permaculture to feed them as well as make money for them. Each place will have 9 to 13 (12 x 18) 216 sq ft building for living in. So the *"Helpful Garden"* will be shelter to up to 13 people as well as a farmers market. The one thing about homeless shelters is that one can be built every 80 miles about or so. I can see a minimum of 3000 homeless shelters of the "Helpful Garden" being built worldwide. (Powered by solar & wind) To build said place is about $500,000 depending where it built. Though it won't need donation or government grants to run for all it's money comes from it farmers market.
*Profits:*
40% profit breakdown:
Money needed for sheltered women: $15,000/each allotted to each tiny home each year. plus stables (Example: coffee, sugar, flour, salt and pepper)
60% profit breakdown:
10% to building new Helpful Gardens
20% to maintenance
15% to college grants
15% to etc.
*_Budget : $500,000_*
*1.)* Land : 3+ acres (Budget $25,000.00 or less)
*2.)* Tiny Homes: 9 to 13 (12 x 18) 216 sq ft [on ½ acre] (Budget $156,000.00 or less)
*3.)* Intake Office: 600 Sq ft (Budget $25,000.00 or less)
*4.)* Farmers Market: ½ acre (Budget $45,000.00 or less)
*5.)* Parking Lot: ¼ acre (Budget $5,000.00)
*6.)* Aquaponics and Permaculture Farm: 1 ¾ acres (Budget $109,000.00 or more)
a.) Up to 3 different fish
b.) Tiger shrimp
c.) Crayfish
d.) 3 different apple and pears trees so [to have them throughout the year]
e.) Citrus trees like lemons, oranges and 2 two others.
f.) Chickens (meat and eggs)
g.) Goats (milk and cheese)
h.) Honey Bees 4 to 6 hives
i.) 2 fig trees (maybe)
j.) Freshwater mussels (maybe)
k.) Rabbits (maybe)
*_Powered : [Total Budget $135,000.00]_*
*1.)* Solar (Budget $90,000)
a.) Tiny Homes 13 set of 4 - 250 watt cell with light sensors (52 solar cells) cost between $27,287.00 and $36,387.00
b.) Aquaponics System - (?)
c.) Intake Office - set of 6 - 250 watt cell with light sensors
(cost between $3,148.50 and $4,198.50)
d.) Farmers Market - (?)
*2.)* Wind Power - (Budget $45,000)
a.) Windmill electric generator 15 to 30 KW cost between $18,000 - $48,000
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*Just some working notes:*
Payroll for security : $3,900/wk $16,900/mo $202,800/yr
3 full time: ($24/hr) $2,880/wk $12,480/mo $149,760/yr
4 part time: 17 hour work week ($15/hr) $1,020/wk $4,420/mo $53,040/yr
Payroll for gardeners : same as security
Volunteers : 36 (though it's like $6/hr to help pay for their gas and childcare if needed).
$4,320/wk $18,720/mo $224,640/yr
Total payroll : $427,440/yr
Money needed for sheltered women: $144,000/yr or $12,000/each allotted to each tiny home (12)
Money of the other 60% profit equals $270,000
$450,000 plus payroll equals $958,769.04
Needed $263.34/hr@70/hr@52/wk=$958,769.04
235,000 lbs vegetables
@$0.5/lb=$32.28/hr or 64.56 lbs/hr or 645.5 lbs/day
30,000 lbs fish/crayfish/shrimp
@ $3/lbs = $247.251/day or $90,000.00/yr
*These are all low ball figures*
$174,720 online sales per year
$117,500 vegetable sale per year
$90,000.00 meat sales per year
$500 honey sales per year
At point soda sales per year
Snack & hot food sale per year
Cloths & wares sales per year
Frozen food sales per year
Canning goods sales per year
Dairy/cheese sales per year
The map that shows the self-sufficient and importers of calories 40 years ago is somewhat wrong. Take a look at Cambodia, a country which locates in South East Asia with highlighted blue. No, we were so poor 40 years old, between 1975-1979, my country was in genocide regime led by Pol Pot, the people were forced to overwork without getting enough foods to eat or survive, approximately 2 millions of people were killed.
That's what will happen again buddy..I'm sure u are glad u made it through.. probably learned some stuff too..I pray for a quick and insufferable end
Or.... stop feeding key grains to food? Yes, I know it's a consumption pattern and so, not subject of the talk, but maybe putting in place global bans on how much food can be fed to food would help? Like, a global agreement to reduce current 40% to like 20%?
When you dismiss demand (i.e., birthrate) and look to "governments" or "studies" to focus on and address demand, then it is not possible to identify the problem. Generally speaking, when you intentionally refuse to identify any given problem, you will only find an effective solution by accident.