We can produce food and not optimal conditions. With high nutritional content and food tasted good lawyer wrote an article in advance, the big difference to working in a field of a good book by the children working the fields in brandenburg. These thick dust clouds are due to the drought without massive artificial eric ation. There would be no harvest. Are these fields facing an imminent collapse under the bridge as the conditions are currently i would have to recommend my children look for a different profession. Devastating drought here. Heavy flooding elsewhere. Food production is in danger and catastrophic famine wreaked havoc throughout the world. Researchers are searching for solutions. A typical harvest in japan. The workers wear protective suits that are hygenic, they prepare. The environment is clinical. These lettuce heads are cultivated without soil and free of pesticides. In this room, the temperature always remains the same, is because i find it pretty good that i can always work indoors regardless of the weather. In tranter than in the rice fields. Vertical farming is the name of this method from japan as seen here at the company spread and cure to the roots thrive in a liquid new chancellor without topsoil, but with the same Natural Ingredients such as sodium and potassium lamps with a similar color temperature to sunlight. Are used solar collectors and the buildings green facade, indicate that progress is that home here. The university of chiba in japan. And this futuristic looking greenhouse experiments with vertical vegetable cultivation are being conducted. Professor to yorkie, invented this method in the 1970 s. Back then he initially had problems finding the right light and had high electricity costs. The breakthrough came with Technology Workers feel good local originally. I wanted to help the Small Farmers who own a small land parcels. She strike vertical farming enables one to achieve 100. 00 times more annual harvest on a single area than with conventional farming. He washed up, so its worth investing in such bench to build factories. These facilities can be set up anywhere. Its an important step towards sustainable agriculture. There are no losses during the harvest, and we use less energy for transport. Productivity and profitability can be increased even further. With the latest technology, i could offer you more caution. This method is mainly used for vets to post and salads. As far as staple foods go, such as cereals or potatoes, more research is still needed. No new home difficulty in japan after the clock wish him a catastrophe. There was a lot of interest in these new greenhouses because it is possible to produce all year round, regardless of external influences, from all who could banks to our methods, not the farmers have a stable production without damage from insects or warms the dish. And of course, the system is sustainable when you can run these vegetable factories in the middle of the city and produce local food as needed from the folks who are not going to the contrast agriculture and the fields. Once again, the farmers like watch are a lot of watcher and the weather is much too hot. Temperatures of up to 40 degrees celsius can dry up the soil to 2 metres. Deep. Large parts of germany are affected by drought in the summer. The result can be the total loss of the harvest was high financial losses. Hence, heneage can harden and brandenburg as one of the farmers who suffer. He grows potatoes and corn. His farm is located in an area with light, dry soil, without the help of expensive irrigation systems, nothing would grow on his farm. The water already needs to be pumped from deep underground, and climate experts predict that even more extreme dry periods are expected. The world is getting bored and called that if you look at the ground here, there is no moisture and i can survive by the front. Thats why theres not much on the streets. 2 miserable potatoes are a few more. Which might have been ok if they had enough water might last year we are having a very dry year. Again, its only rained half the amount that we normally would have had at this time of year or soil are so dry from last year that even the little rain weve had over the last few days is not im not for the plans because i will be flying since we are but how can the farmers problems be solved . How can we ensure that food supply in the future is safe . Battening in university in the netherlands, is looking into these questions. At the renowned agricultural university, scientists are working on using new ideas and methods to finally defeat hunger and the 21st century. They are working on the assumption that in just 30 years, twice as much food will have to be produced as today. But the conditions for this have become worse, in order not to exacerbate the climate crisis. The area available for food cultivation should not increase. New methods are therefore needed to produce food in the future. And funding and as head of the plant science department. He understands how grave the situation is. So if we change nothing, and we keep on consuming the way we are doing it, we dont optimize the way we produce our food. Then for the next 40 years, we will need to produce as much food as we did over the last 8000 years. And i think that gives a really good impression how big the challenge is to feed the world in 2050. With this huge greenhouses, the netherlands is the 2nd largest food exporter in the world and they take care of their resources. The Vegetable Growers here need much less water to tomatoes and elsewhere. Thanks to new era geisha techniques. Our research is focusing on to produce more food, but at the same time to do it with less inputs. So we need to produce more nutritious food, more safe food. And this challenge, more with less and better, is really the overarching theme of our research program. This is how daily life looks in the spanish region of our memory. Under this sea of plastic tarp and then lies europes largest freshwater garden artificially irrigated grown for export. Millions of tons of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and other varieties are shipped from here mostly to germany. But intensive cultivation has its price. Pesticides and fertilizers contribute to the fact that hardly Anything Grows here outside the greenhouses and spanish French School farmers are running out of watching. The whole area is drying out. The situation in africa is even more extreme, especially south of the sahara. The reason an increase and weather catastrophes. Its almost impossible for the poor and hungry to lift themselves out of their misery without external help says the secretary general of german acro action, zeidan yards. Why the since 2014, the number of hungry people has continued to rise. And currently 821000000 people suffer. That we can see quite clearly that about 30000000 people have been affected as a direct result of the Climate Change this claim of hundreds personally and very acutely affected by this. Because the storms currently hitting these countries were previously completely unknown. And this is just such a sign of the Destructive Force of the changing climate to contribute and how the people in the countries where we walk are quite defenseless, and at the mercy of the elements. The difference and catastrophes, drought, and floods destroy not only the Living Spaces of inhabitants, but also valuable Agricultural Land was overcrowded and birth from recurring harden can solve his trap. Problems with, technical help supported by the e. U. , he nevertheless was pessimistic about his future mcleish. This is i regain shin is the only way we can still grow things here you try the grain cultivation is actually not feasible anymore, and we are no longer competitive world. Why it would be reviewable. The potatoes that we irrigate are sold here in the region where we still have a market that we can sell to retain. Recall that we incurred back in japan at the companys spread and kyoto headquarters for the new world of agriculture spread. As currently the Worlds Largest farm for vertical production, an employee of the company on her way to work. Her clothes are more similar to what people wear in an operating theatre than on an outdoor farm. Here hygiene regulations are very strict. All precautions are used to prevent germs from the outside, entering the production as the food should be clean and unspoiled. In this closed sterile environment, the plants grow without the use of pesticides and fertilizers. A good 50000 head of lettuce, leaves the factory every day. This hall is only used for packaging. Others are used for growing very special posts, including mushrooms and exotic herds. The selection is large, none of the projects is washed as there are germs in the watcher that may cause the vegetables to spoil. Another advantage of this type of indoor farming is that the plants thrive on several floors above each other and each very little valuable floor space. The cultivation and some of the house is already fully automatic. She found at the factory 15 years ago, you could do the sort of the need fact that Climate Change, or the explosion of the worlds population was not a big issue. So good it was there a market for factory grown vegetables . Well, you may be more on the right now. We make a good profit will. I dont think that factories will replace conventional farming completely and book. But i think that our way of farming will play a central role in 20 or 30 years ago. But we want to share the technology with poor countries so that they can produce their own food. So its a good deal stop just thanks to the short distances to supermarkets and restaurants. No goods are spoiled, train transport, unlike in conventional supply chains. On the other hand, conventional agriculture in japan is also in a deep crisis. Farmers use pesticides as a necessary tool and rice cultivation. Price, which is sacred to many japanese is heavily subsidized in japan. The market is largely protected by high customs duties. Price imports are considered an attack on cultural heritage, but the areas under cultivation are dwindling. The average size of a japanese farm is just 1. 00 hectares, which makes it difficult for farmers to make ends meet. That is why there are hardly any young People Farming was the average age of a farmer being 66 years old. Cooperatives are formed and many places in order to be able to far more effectively. But the increase in natural disasters is also causing them problems. War to avoid being held hostage by these changes. The farmer was inventive will grow up and this is my aquaponics system, he proudly explains. And his small greenhouse, he is trying out a new form of agriculture. Aquaponics here for share bread and large tanks, ikea each has 250 storage bins and his facility with the fish excrement is pumped out and used as fertilizer for various vegetables. The watcher purified by the plant is then returned to the fish tanks from rice farmer to modern aquaponics farmers. Almost all vegetables thrive here all year round and are independent of Climate Changes. The greenhouses even withstood an earthquake. The neighboring farmers have already suffered this year. It rained too much and their plants did not get enough sun i kid out over can still carry his harvest to the market. And dreams of an even bigger plant, such as this one in the show, never back to strict in berlin. And the grounds of an Old Industrial complex greenhouses professional growing in the middle of the city. Groups of visitors from all over the world come here to learn about the goings on inside. This is also an aquaponics farm, but on a grand scale, the current product, capital city prone put the excrement to fish great in these tanks. The fish that is marketed in berlin is of course called capital city perch. That one thought we want to produce where people consume so we dont have long supply chains or long cold storage times and we have a much better c o 2 balance. And so its why i think our fish, the capital city perch is the freshest best you can buy here in berlin. The principle is as old as the hills. The water that is polluted by the fish is extracted and used as manure for the plants. And has been used this way for centuries in china and by the mayans of central america. The plants grow faster on shelves or on raised beds in these rooms than in a natural environment. The young entrepreneurs produce 9500. 00 basil pods per week for a Supermarket Chain. So want take long before the costs for the 1400000 Euro Construction are recovered. Through the 7800000000 people currently live on our planet. In a mere 30 years, there will be 11000000000. More and more people are leaving the world areas. And according to United Nations study, 2 thirds of the worlds population will be living in cities and 2050. So more of these farms will have to people, especially and asia their megacities already extend over huge areas without any agriculture. More plants and more greenery is needed and the cities urban planners face a new challenge. The inhabitants of megacities not only have to be supplied with living space watcher and energy. They also need room for growing food. The descent of architects just talking and morgan and his staff are planning a huge residential and Office Complexes and almost all the worlds megacities. And they need to make them attractive to live in dallas. And we have to deal with overheated cities, cities all significantly warmer and hotter on the surrounding areas. Route for dealing with cities that are not only damaged so to speak, but also sealed. So no offices there is little contact between the environment and the office with correspondingly negative consequences due to the influx of people and of a crowned by the physical. It is no longer possible to ignore this problem. So the idea of revegetation and of green architecture equal to a major role in the wheelchair war from the being in the war for no. This residential and Office Complex in singapore, as high as the present Television Tower is an example of the to sort of architects work. 20000 people live and work here. A small town in a single building complex. In the middle of it is a green heart, 350 different plant species help to provide better air and a better climate. Everything that is written room for this is certainly not the solution for normal rural, Central European areas. It is the solution for high density locations. Of course, if you plan to create a green area, you can also use it to produce food. So you have to have facts of life. You have to shading a factor and the fact that the food is produced here. And so you have the benefit of oxygen production of under an additional advantage is that if the project is grown here, you also save c o 2, june additional to transport roads. What we are going green areas and not just for recreation, agricultural producers, growing food at high rise buildings, or on roofs next to huge office towers. Just really i wouldnt dismiss it, although it does, of course aim bizarre. Because i think that from a Central European perspective, its difficult to imagine the density and intensity is one of the difficulties, many of the cities will face in the next 50 years. So what comes next is to achieve this with a quality that enables the people to live healthy lives there on a minute basis. So for us, what sounds like a futuristic dream is already reality and asia. But also in europe, more and more people are moving to the cities and the transport supply chains for food are getting longer. In the center of tokyo, i think inside the main shopping street of the metropolis home to the large japanese corporations and long established institutions. A rice field in the middle of it on the roof of a high rise building. I psec you brewery across the raw material for its rice wine here in japan. Psyche is not just an alcoholic beverage. It is an indispensable part of the countrys culture just like rice, which is why sackey and rice belong right in the heart of tokyo for this program. It is also an experimental field for new varieties, the roof of a high rise building as an agricultural alternative. That body in the beginning they didnt take us seriously. No rice would grow here. Its much too right here at night and on the roof. Its much too hot. But our experiments have been good and were harvesting more and more. The rice grows well here. I think its right that in japan they are looking for different ways to grow rice and vegetables. Its a challenge. And after all that, rice is part of our tradition. Lets start that theyre not the only each season the group produces 50 bottles of sackey from a small rice field on the roof of the Historic Building in the center of berlin. Right next to the museums Entrance Hall as a restaurant deal limited to glass cabinets, are not just part of the decor. I inside grow herbs and salads and israeli startup based in berlin, has placed these plant cabinets in various restaurants in the city, as well as in the stores of a Supermarket Chain to function similarly to the plant factories in japan and ensure that the project is fresh on the table, there are 50 sets, many greenhouses in parlin alone and about 200 already distributed throughout europe. 2 square meters of space in the plant cabinet corresponds to 250 square meters of regular farmland. And this food is waste in the kitchen because you only harvest what is necessary for the dishes that guests have ordered. There are obviously some other farms, 2 or 3 times a week, which we dont have to wash up because it doesnt have any dirt. It has just water lilies, so its perfect for, for the cooking also. But i guess this is, for example, its just a, lets 1st of all its, theres this very hard to get in there in the market. So well, you can see that its super tasting. And the fact that you just, you are harvesting it and putting it straight into the plate. It makes a huge difference. But the other thing, and i think this is the most important one, is that you have access to the flavors and to plants that you cannot get anywhere. For example, this one is small stuff. And its something that you cannot get in the market. They just really like, must start, like its sharp and spicy. Admittedly, this kind of special preparation is more for the enjoyment of a metropolitan minority. Presently these greenhouses are not your plan for mass production in germany. At least the lettuce here doesnt travel far to be put on the table. Factory plants grown under artificial sunlight without earth and with little watch or an important step for the nutrition of the future. And the challenge for conventional agriculture will work with nature. If you look around here, marx are singing, the insects are flying around. But that isnt the case in these facilities. I believe that this is not what you want in the future. If its not nature, its just an artificial product. I just cant imagine it, but it has nothing to do with my ethos as a farmer who in the army should be farming as having an area of land here where something is growing that i can take care of. One of these artificial farming goes against the philosophy of what i want to represent with my soul as a farmer. But do we have another choice . Classical agriculture alone will not be able to supply the growing World Population without the help from the oratory for much longer with plants that develop in a controlled way without the use of fertilizers and pesticides, and with less water. Soon there will be a World Population of 10 or 11000000000 people. We cant imagine how big the cities will become, and at the moment its almost considered progress if you can successfully cope with overcrowding at all. It is an essential part of the 21st Century Technology that we achieve this. Because if we dont also vive on the planet may not happen. What do you want . Do you want to produce in such a way that you have and you use, you need to use a bigger surface and that means that you have to destroy nature, or you want to have your square meter. So my opinion is that we use our agriculture fields in such a way that we optimize the growth in order to save the environment in our research is still just starting. However, in the coming decades, cities throughout the world will need to host critical agriculture was safe, clean, and sustainable pride. If we are to prevent food from becoming scarce and the cost of bed in the world drives a 110 kilometers an hour. One needs it, but its a lot of fun, says its inventor and builder the bridge gets things moving. That shouldnt actually move it all falls down a abodes. Mood has gone beyond the back to the untold story of the u. S. 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