A global food crisis may be less than a decade away | Sara Menker 

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes you can set the speed to 1.25 It's one of those times

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).

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.

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.

She is talking economics without any economics.

welp.....here we are.

It's here this year in 2022 :-( I hope it doesn't end up being as bad as I think it will

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%?

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?

and u r right.....

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.

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!!!

This is awesome in the true sense of the world. How amazing that TED and RU-vid are making the propagation of this message possible. I will be changing my behaviors and sharing this.

Decade... aren't you optimistic! Within 2 years expect catastrophic agricultural collapse globally.

I wonder how much food wastage contributes to this issue.

How is this material in extreme humidity or extreme heat? How is it for absorption and drying time?

In 2017, the world produced enough calories to feed 11 billion people. We have a transportation and waste issue before we have production problem

Commercial farming is not only communistic but it creates higher amounts of pests and pollution. The dust bowl was created from commercial farming.

You know better when you already plan it

here in southern az we used to get about 12 killing frosts every winter plus some snow...and since the 1980's when i moved here , every year we get less killing frost and no snow, a few years ago we hit 5 frosts and last year for the first time we had zero and more rain than ever...sounds great at first as i thought i don't have to plant new crops but it turned out the plants are about 10 percent productivity of last year and i was not able to start any new plants because most plants cant germinate above 90 degrees F and since my old ones never died i have been trying to get by but i have spent alot of money this year buying vegetables that i normally just grow

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).

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.

We are already producing food for 9 billion people,but sadly much of it is going to waste...

It’s kind of depressing knowing I was brought into this life just to suffer when this earth can’t and won’t be able to produce food for every person on earth, and I feel for everyone in the future who won’t be able to have a good sustainable life. All I can do now is be optimistic for some type of miracle but I highly doubt that will become true.

Great talk, but I noticed one thing missing. I can't speak for other places, but I think that I can say that Africa has enough land and manpower not only to be self-sufficient, but to become a large exporter of calories. It seems to me that potable water is the only problem in this equation (that, and ignorant government officials); and this is a BIG problem. There is a huge, prehistoric aquifer beneath the Saharan desert, but it's already been stretched to where the water in places must be brought up from such a depth that it is nearly boiling hot when it reaches the surface. This is not sustainable. With ocean levels rising, they should be looking into an affordable method of fresh water extraction. This might possibly kill the proverbial two birds. And when I say 'they,' I am referring to all of the African governments working together. They could also learn water conservation from India, mass production from Canada and GMO modification from the US, but these may only be stop-gap measures. An African Union like Europe has, where governments work together for a common good and the creation of a cheap, fresh water source will turn the tide and give Africans what they need not only to be self sufficient, but to become a supplier of calories in a time when green will become the new gold.

*_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

I'd like to see every home and school in the world with at least an indoor vertical garden! :D

The presenter said the world could make enough food to prevent enormous calorie deficits because farmers in Africa and elsewhere had yields the same as farmers in the US in 1940. Thus, these farmers need only adapt the industrial food production used in the US. However, this depends on finite and diminishing water resources and heavy use of petroleum derived chemicals. I think it likely that watershed scarcity will become a more acute problem sooner than later and there is credible evidence that the once vaunted peak oil may be on the horizon. I would want to know how these and perhaps other factors would impact food production.

Whats up with her charts?

"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.

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.

For someone who worked on wall st she seems to have ignored how the market responds to growing demands

Her model didn't mention the growing trend of obesity even in calories net importer like China. So changing consumption pattern is not the story of "asking developed countries act on your behalf". Eating less calories and food with richer nutritional values are even more important than filling the gap of calories deficit

Covid and supply chain disruptions and extreme weather events is making this come true.

Biggest problem is the people who should be speaking are silent and the people who should be quiet are speaking

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.

Well livestock has been on the decline since colonialism in the U.S.A. has taken flight. So there goes all the Big Macs.

Glad someone is bringing attention to this, but two problems she did not touch on. One, inputs for the green revolution are costly. Especially as oil becomes more scarce and expensive in the decades just ahead, transport costs, machinery operation costs, fertilizer and pesticide costs will all become much higher, making hard to sustain much less expand the green revolution. (I know, electric cars will save us, blah, blah, blah--heard it all, and, no, fill-in-the-blank will not avert this crisis.) Second, grain prices have a long history of going up when sunspots activity goes down, and a solar cyclical low is starting now. If one wishes to understand the scientific explanation for this established phenomenon, I refer you to the works of Henrik Svensmark and Jan Veizer, among others. Solar activity hit an 8000 year peak during the global warming scare at the end of the 20th century, accompanied by warmer temperatures, reliable growing seasons, and stable weather patterns. As we continue to enter into the developing cyclical low in solar activity, we should expect to see the opposite, as we did during previous prolonged lows in solar magnetic field strength. Indeed, satellite data indicate that temperatures already have been trending lower for over a decade, with record low temperatures far outnumbering new record highs, with many places around the world experiencing unseasonably cool temperatures, record snowfalls, changes in precipitation, and other weather extremes increasingly reminiscent of previous prolonged lows in the sunspot cycle, a proxy for solar magnetic field strength. We should expect these trends to become much more severe during the next decade. Will the green revolution be able to be vastly expanded amid the triple whammy of increasing energy scarcity, the climate effects of the next grand solar minimum, and the slowing economic growth (or outright contraction) that results from servicing the all time record global debt burden (which is still expanding, you may have noticed)? I am not optimistic.

@Microbuilder After this years flooding do you still think we have surplus food for the entire world?

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.

What does "food crisis" mean? What does the "tipping point" mean? Why is data from India being compared with the entire continent of Africa? Why are food imports measured in just calories? I'm so confused by this talk...

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.

this aged very well

Indians and Indian politicians will never touch commercialization of agriculture simply because over half of India lives in its villages and they form a major voter base. Indians have been brutalized by big industries and corrupt polticians far too many times in the past 70 years to ever let their lands go and lose their livelihood. Educating them and changing their habits to increase yield and implement sustainable agriculture which doesn't let the land go barren is the next big step. Aside from this, the world has to change. Most of the crops are wasted on feeding animals which in turn are eaten by humans everywhere outside India (which doesn't consume much meat even though a majority are non-vegetarians and even though they can afford it). This puts a huge strain on the environment and agriculture as well. Change that culture first.

I have read that the issue isn't the production of food the issue is distribution..the food wastage in developed countries is unimaginable..

A very good, well constructed, and thought-provoking presentation.

Summarize: reform Africa's agriculture, now!

How much callories of food doe it cost to produce one pond of meat?

The soil used in Agricultural in the UK has overall only 9 more years effectiveness for producing food before its is completely useless. Some patches may be usable but unless a solution can be found it will cause havoc for farmers and consumers alike. What other countries have the same problem?

Great speech/talk

You forgot that we have not discovered enough phosphorous resources to feed the planet past 2030

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.

Interesting and she makes many good points.... ONE of the biggest issues is food WASTE! Part of that problem is that MANY people do not understand the difference between BEST by dates V EXP dates.... food is generally still good 10 years past the best by date. Another big issue is "what is food?" Watch the show "bizarre foods with Andrew Zimmern sp?" foods from one area is considered bizarre in other areas. BOTH issues can be improved with education.....

Bottom line, 2/3 of the population just needs to walk into the ocean.

Soylent Green

tougher regulation on food waste and investments in agriculture around the globe.

So relevant today in 2022.

Cannibalisme anyone? Let’s bring it back!

It's not about food crisis, it's about coming control.

Necessary to look at global crop losses (quantity) and failures (quality).

great speech.

If there is a global food crisis it will be because of government and not because we can't produce the food. Quantity of food is not the issue.

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.

Well I'm already feeling the food shortage trying to decipher between GMO's ,high pesticides and radiated foods, .and trying to find something without High fructose Corn syrup , GMO soy or GMO Conola oil in it .Good Luck

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.

Just eat the other 1 billion. It's a win win situation!

Everyone. It's all good. We can relax. Breatharians have the answer... 😒 ؟

We have had a loss of up 50% of crop yields this year.Hail storms To much or to little rain. Future prospects are grimm.

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.

Let's farm and live on Mars! We need to get along with the aliens though.

In India half, the land is arable same in land area as in the US. problem with India is old farming techniques. once technology updates there will be huge productivity increase.

Can someone explain to me her proposed solution?

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...

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.

It doesn't matter how much we're able to increase agricultural yeilds through traditional farming, or how far we advance our ability to distribute that food equitably. The only thing that will be able to overcome the problem of how to feed 10+ billion people sustainably in the coming decades is vertical farming. A ton of R&D is going to have to go in to figuring out how to grow the majority of our crops in indoor, AI-controlled vertical farming operations. We have to grow our food with a fraction of the required topsoil, freshwater, chemical fertilizer and pesticide inputs. You could double our agricultural yield and move to 100% efficiency in food distribution and it would not solve our problem. Why? Because industrial agriculture would still be entirely unsustainable in the long term. According to the UN the world has, on average, 60 years of topsoil left. We're burning and churning through our precious topsoil with our intensive farming techniques. The solution does not lie in making for even more intensive agriculture, it lies in wildly transformative technological breakthroughs in vertical farming. Or we could just figure out how to find more arable land, how to farm that land even more intensively, and stave off an apocalyptic future with billions of people succumbing to famine by a few more decades. Who needs forests or flying insects anyways, right?

This talk was two years ago and she predicted 10 years to a tipping point. Crop failures due to the GSM is going to make this happen much faster. Start growing your own food.

The shift is Covid19 and we can see how all that the speaker is saying is currently happening.

Don't worry, excess demand will fix itself when supply does not match.

Maybe this is the earth cleaning house

Were getting closer and closer 😟

If you have some space and then I even talk about a balkon on appartment you should grow your own food. Some species of beans you could grow and dry your harvest. Inside you could grow proteïnes by growing insects like grasshoppers which you feed from foodwaste and even grass. Gather some of the abunded wild edibles such as raspberrys, elderberrys, dandelion and nuts. You could find them in most naborhoods and city parks.

interesting presentation, thank you. from the little I think I know China and Chinese companies are all over African resources and infrastructure, offering loans and other incentives. some of those loans will default. the presenter makes it sound as if ordinary africans own the resources in their countries. I don't believe that is the case. africa cannot be the supplier of food in the world because african countries, in some instances, don't own their resources. other countries, other businesses in other countries, not just china, own those resources. think how it would be in america if america's bread basket in the midwest were owned by russia, england or any other than american companies. america wouldn't be a net exporter. I don't believe most african countries will be allowed to be net exporter because, in my largely ignorant and uninformed opinion, many poor countries have their resources stripped from them, sometimes by corrupt leaders who allow loans to default for a pay day or by outside countries paying far less than the fair market value of the resources, meaning that effectively the country cannot invest in education for it's citizens, or in it's infrastructure. when countries with resources try to protect themselves, they are sometimes called socialist or anti-democratic (Cuba and Venezuela come to mind). Imperialism has morphed into so many sneaky off shoots and it's condoned. poor countries have to be wise, educated and tough to keep what they have. otherwise it will be stolen.

SOUTH AMERICA IS GOING TO GET RICH BABY

interesting way to look at it

So, Africa may be able to produce enough food to feed itself through green revolution? In USA, we produce an excess of food, but that is because agriculture is so efficient through consolidation, such that only 1 or 2 percent of the people are actually farming. Which works just fine when everyone else has jobs+money. What is supposed to happen in Africa when all of those small scale farmers are out of work? Who will invest in large farms if no one has money to buy the food? Will the continent be politically stable? I have heard all of my life, 50+ years, the world has the ability to feed itself, and yet people still starve. The current global system works great as long as there are enough jobs+money for everyone. If jobs are all automated/consolidated, if money is sucked away through growing wealth inequality, the system will not function so well. And those who think this system is the solution for everything will wish they had bothered to reform/tweak it for such changes, and perhaps instead find it replaced by something that is not of their choosing.

Reform agricultural industries in Africa? I thought Papa Mugabe was already doing that, to much success...

So grow your own food, africans!

Why you made no mention of vertical farms which uses a tenth of the water for cultivation and needs no land??

Well as long as you think they can find the extra water,?

No it's most probably not. We already have solutions for this, why not talk about them instead of spreading a negative message?

here we are 3 years later

She is brilliant no notes or prompts .

In UK same time

The solution is easy, just build up use verticality multiple levels like a car garage

Whos here in 2020 Not so funny now right !! God have Mercy on us all !!

It's ironic that only those who have enough food, have access to electricity and by extension, the internet to see this will agree but will do nothing more. Grow food for ourselves and nature instead of lawns as a start.

Wow who is 2022 here?