Feeding Nine Billion Video 1: Introducing Solutions to the Global Food Crisis by Dr. Evan Fraser 

How many people watched this bc of their teachers

my teacher told me to watch this, so i did

Had to watch this twice because I was too distracted by his drawing xD

Watching this under COVID19 quarantine. Wishing things will improve again sooner.

I just finish writing a thesis on resilience to food insecurity and this document is helping me for my dissertation defense. Thank you.

I wish I could draw like that, its amazing

I am from India .Here we have surplus food and we are exporting yet some people are starving. A very good strategy 1. Local production and distribution (locally grown for local) is good in terms of cost, time, nutrition etc. 2. Energy intensive food processing and storage techniques have to be replaced with traditional methods 3. Developing agricultural technologies for small farmers 4. Strict measures against the wastage of food

i had to write notes faster than i ever have to keep up with this video lol

Was anyone else just captivated by the illustrations and not really paying attention to the narration?

thank you for NOT demonizing my cheese burger

Everyone should hear this and make little changes within their power to act. Collectively, we can make a great difference to enhance food security.

Great drawing first of all. And more importantly being able to illustrate the points without making people depressed like all the other hunger videos.

With better use of our spaces we can produce more food. Change our priority for having gardening plots before having parking spots

It impressed me a lot.The best approach from you/Dr Evan Fraser that I have ever watched .Thank you a lot , the solution is with in the people as a whole as well as on the governors in particular.

Thank you ver much Evan Fraser, this has been of great use for me and I hope lots of people watch this video to make a better world . I hope you have a good and fair live that you diserve :)

Great idea to illustrate how to feed 9 billion people!

As someone who has been engaged in local food production since 2007 I can say unequivocally the greatest hurdle we face in the developed world is banking and financial institutions. Small scale agriculture is not, as of yet, a highly profitable enterprise, but it requires a great expense in time and labor. How can those of us who are interested in producing food locally do so when Land prices are to high to afford outright ownership of and profit margins are too low to support mortgage payments. The market gardens and small farms go to be replaced with vacation homes. This has been my experience. Legislation and Law move to slowly and are written without the interests of the individual or planet in mind.

I need to learn how to draw like this! Great job with the video.

Truly great video , I will be using it at a talk on Food Security to a United Nations Association of Trinidad and Tobago.

Beautiful video and easy-to-understand solutions

Love your idea and your power point-drawings. It helps me to see the clear picture. I know you will go far!!! Good luck and you have my support!!!

videos and illustrations .. i loves both . thanks for making and make more :)

Thank you Dr. Fraser. A well balanced holistic view to a system. Sounds like you have identified the key leverage points. It seems that so much of this comes down to Political Will.

Interesting video. Endlessly fascinating.... Will check out some more resources. I am learning about energy technology at the moment.

Thank for making it and I do like to hear more. Farmers in Cambodia are facing farmland lost (bank dept) due to production cost and less yield. When I was young, an hectare farm can feed a family of 7 people; but not, even 2 people is quite hard.

Thanks! Nice of you to say. Evan

I love this. Super interesting presentations

Wow, wonderful video and interesting explanation , thanks

Awesome art bro!

Please do more on this topic please I found it super interesting I am a 14 year old boy whose dreams are one day to stop world poverty.

as a former student at U of G it seems so simple just need to convince 5 billion people to grow enough food for them self's and one other person and the other 4 billion to schooch in a little closer to free up land for food growing. your welcome

I went to the website to vote as the video instructed, but, there's nothing to vote on, or at least I can't find it.

Really nice vid!!!! I think you are absolutely right. I even think that it is possible to feed even more, but you made it very clear in this video that changes have to be made because otherwise it will be hard. My classmates agree. (we saw this vid of yours on our agricultural school in Delft, Nederlands. Thx for making it!

I went to the website to vote as the video instructed, but there's nothing to vote on, or at least I can't find it.

hi what software did u use to make this video

Great video by the way, here is another way of helping planet earth from over exhaustion.... STOP HAVING MANY CHILDERN! I myself don't have any and I'm not planning to... I admire with couples who have got 1 child and can provide her/him with food, education and care, it's just harder to do these things righteously if there are many of your copies in this life.

You're totally right, Kerry! We filmed this over two days and it was when I reviewed the footage from day one that I realized (to my dismay) that I'd failed to notice the preponderance of white men in the images. So, on day two we tried to correct for this but didn't have the opportunity of going back over the first day's images. So, yup, you are spot on for noticing this and I'm embarrassed I wasn't more on top of this issue earlier in the process.

Nice work!

This is such a great video... what can we do? As an individual family.. I showed this to my kids and it inspires us to action- but what is something tangible that we can do? We do very simple actions like riding our bikes instead of driving, eating mainly vegetarian, growing our own garden- but this isn't helping the people in need... Please share what "regular people" can do to help change the trend... We wish we could contribute something but feel helpless.

Sure - that's what local food systems entail, and the evidence suggests this will work well for our horticultural needs. But back-yard gardening, roof top gardening (etc.) can't produce anything like our requirements for grains or proteins without large scale land clearance and/or huge rises in food prices. So my reading of the current research on the topic is we're likely going to have to depend on our breakbaskets for a long time to come and even if we wished it otherwise...Cheers! Evan

As an agronomist in Africa am alarmed with the assumption that Africa needs seeds and inputs... we already have those in excess. What we need is a sustainable food system. The main failure is usually implementation of proven Policies!

By the way (see below) Zambia was nearly 90% rural in 1950, just prior to the lowering of farm prices, so the rural crisis which has exploited global farmers for 6 decades in connected to the crisis for Zambia's urban citizens. They too depend on the farm economy, and many of them (3/4?) were families run off of their farms, (just like an even higher percentage of US farmers, and for the same reasons).

LOVED IT!

Around 1900 people thought the world would feed only 1 billion people. Then we invented better ways to fix nitrogen, giving us more food. Science is the way to go.

Awesome!!!

Good Video! Teached Me Alot!

Thanks Frank - Appreciate the comments.

Does someone knows which is the program used to make this video? I mean.. the drawing hand ?

Really great video

This is amazing

Thanks deep thought about farm crisis and the video is worth watching twice

Brilliant!

@Evan Fraser Amazing doodle video buddy. Can you please tell me the software you are using to create videos like this?

Agree, well said.

Yup I agree. We use our food in very wasteful ways in many regards. The question is how to address the problem...

what you made it?

Very interesting video.. !!!

The Zambia example at the beginning doesn't account for the fact that it's 60% rural, similar to most other Least Developed Countries, so the cheaper food, (look at 2005!) means lower farm prices, less income form farming economies, and thus the poverty that causes hunger. The later, more expensive example, represents fair trade prices, which they need. The bigger problem is the lowering of global prices by the US since 1953, with 1980-2013 being below full costs for wheat, cotton, barley, oats and sorghum, and for 1981-2006 add corn, rice and soybeans. 6 decades of decline (cheap) created this dilemma, not a few years of fairer trade.

The issue of how much food is wasted is also important. Also, even though I agree that food is better for feeding rather than producing Ethanol ( presumably this is make Biodiesel?) I do think we need to find alternative solutions to using Oil. It's all a complex subject, but I think Evan is right that if we have the will to do something to change things, things will change. The world is what me make it.

beutiful every single thing correct and organized and your vedio are the best and good luck on the other vedios and I wish to you to add more informations in the other wons like this one 😊😊😊😊😊😊

(continued from previous comment): companion reading guide. In the reading guide, you will find more sophisticated versions of the arguments in more depth than in the short video. They make many citations to academic articles and government reports, which I am sure you can appreciate as an academic. See the "food mythbusters" website, which I unfortunately can't link to in the comments. Don't play into large corporations' schemes. They mean well, I'm sure, but it's just a bad way to farm.

This is a great video. Unfortunately, it only brushes over a large obstacle - people's greed for money and power. It advocates for more government regulation (we need more!?) to ensure that corporations aren't just lining their pockets by making food the next major market. Many things have to change in the US (and worldwide) before this could be successful. Currently, big corporations are able to lobby our government due to our debt-based fiat currency. Overall, it's a great idea in theory.

I really hope Peak Oil prevents the population from getting that large. Cheap oil was the prime enabler of global transport, intensive agriculture and food distribution, plus all the other modern conveniences & medicines that allowed the population to grow beyond natural limits..

Mr, Fraser how did you make such a great video

Pretty much. The banks running around with our money wasn't a case of lack of regulation. It was a case of the government regulation providing protectionism to the fat cats. He said the criticisms of the four steps were not universal. So was the 1992 crisis. The moment I heard about the Pharaoh taxing grain and more regulation, I instantly remembered that we have struggling farmers who can barely afford to run their business right now.

Is this video on creative common license?

support local farmers and stop food speculations

Hello,thanks heaps for your answer, I really appreciate it :-) Gosh, I didn't know that it still wouldn't be enough food, even if people grew their own food.I have been thinking lately, why don't we think outside the box! Maybe food cant only be grown in soil. Maybe food can be grown in water. Maybe they could grow seaweed in water, people can eat seaweed.Also, the miracle tree (Moringa Oleifera) feeds people in Africa etc with lots of their nutritional needs. Maybe they could plant more of them

Twitter sent me. Super video.

hi there, i am currently researching how sustainable farming can help solve the global food crisis for my year 12 studies, is there any advice you could give me for this topic?

excellent thinking

i just hope that we can get the point accross so that people have a chance to change before its to late

We need better support for smaller crops, such as those that make up a Resource Conserving Crop Rotation (ie. oats, barley, rye) instead of just big money for corn and soybeans. We need better support for the solutions that don't require dependence on megatechnic (Lewis Mumford) solutions, which make us dependent upon the agribusiness power complex (ie. agribusiness input & output megamachine). See adds in organic farming publications.

I'm watching this because my reacher told me to.

The population is predicted to cap off at 9.5 billion in 2300, while reaching 9 billion come 2050.

The evidence urban ag this will work well for our horticultural needs and is useful to boost incomes in very poor cities. But back-yard gardening, roof top gardening (etc.) can't produce anything like our requirements for grains or proteins without large scale land clearance and/or huge rises in food prices. So my reading of the current research on the topic is we're likely going to have to depend on our breakbaskets for a long time to come and even if we wished it otherwise...Cheers! Evan

nice video

Dr.Mercier from Mac sent me here LOL

i have to watch this video for school

"Duress" means suffering. How much duress before perish? The technology is there for human to survive. Cultures and morality will have to change for human to cooperate and make the world live-able for all.

So no mention of depletion of top soil, aqua furs, liquid fuels and hydrocarbon based NPK's? The waste point is a good one and we should eat less meat but who's going to vote for the man who takes away the big mac? its a knacker job mate, famine is already here and it's here to stay in my opinion.

So, out of curiosity, where does urban agriculture fit into this picture? Not including this as a key facet possibly detracts from the strength of your argument as it misses addressing local poverty and food insecure areas in our own backyards.

Not to mention that with GMO crops a farmer now must incur the cost of buying seed every year. Nor the fact that these said GMO crops created an increased demand for round up which has now contributed to super weeds. Which then requires more chemicals and stronger ones to get rid of said weeds. again the farmer gets the debt for that while Monsanto gets the subsidies and tax cuts.

We may need first to make farms households more resilient to shocks. Income generating activities and agricultural insurance.

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food. Peak oil is happening right now. After peak oil, oil production will decline for the whole world. And since our food production is totally reliant on oil, food production will decrease when oil production decreases. That's because in the industrialized world 10 calories of fossil fuel energy are expended to produce every calorie of food. We use natural gas to produce commercial fertilizers, and oil to power the machines used for growing food. The entire food system is utterly dependent on fossil fuels. When fossil fuels go into decline, so will food production. And when food production declines, the population will also decline. I doubt there will ever be 9 billion people by 2050 because by 2050, world oil production would already be in significant decline. The only reason we can feed our current population is with fossil-fuel based agriculture. If you take away the fossil fuels, you take away the food, and by taking away the food, the population goes away. It is that simple. And since fossil fuels are going to go into decline in the next couple of decades, we are about to face an agricultural crisis of unimaginable proportions. This agricultural crisis will result in quite literally billions of people starving to death around the world.

Pretty cool

There just isn't enough land to decentralize agriculture like that. Billions of people live in apartments or only have small plots. Look into how much acreage is occupied by factory farms that enabled such a large population to begin with, mostly via cheap oil for fertilizer, planting, harvesting and global transport. Oil gave the illusion that food was much easier to grow in bulk than it really is.

I wonder how long that took to draw. Total.

This is a great video but I don't understand why the creators decided to keep putting the four defences out of order. You assigned them numbers and proceeded to ignore them making following the point harder than it should have been

I like theese videos.

we need to deal with the leaky pipe first. that's animal agriculture, obesity and waste. that will massively reduce the demand and thus ease the problem. i'm not saying other solutions aren't important. but these three things are actively causing the problem

hey bro make sure you get those marks checked out for skin cancer its a silent killer my uncle got it and passed from it

Any pitfall in this strategy? I do not see any.

I hope you're right! I guess the key question is whether we'll evolve in a way that doesn't result in mass suffering in the transition?

This mossions quites undermines the seriousness of this video.

Is this video made by monsato or the United nations? Alot of warm fuzzy feelings here. It is definately not this simple when people are spraying chemicals all over us all and stopping food growth and doing weather modification.

GMO is the answer. As world environments becomes tougher, we'll have to modify our crops and animals to better withstand that environment. And eventually we'll have to modify ourselves to live in an increasingly hostile and dangerous world. The political will for devolving isn't high and agriculture in its "natural/organic" state cannot support as many humans as there are now, perhaps between 500 million to 1 billion people. Where does that leave the excess populations of 6 billion (today and 8 billion by 2050)?

Dr. Fraser, I appreciate your devotion to this issue, but I am afraid I disagree with your approach. I would reverse the bit about local places as buffer zones when foreign imports are a problem. Why should we grow food where we live, ship it away, and then have other people grow food where they live, and ship it here? It makes more sense to make local food production the primary source of one's food, and I believe it is quite doable. Every community can support themselves.

An excellent tool for communicating your research/arguments and a moving call to action. I find the depictions of scientists/farmers as men until late in the video disappointing, esp. given the crucial, multidimensional role women play in food security. UN Women estimates that women compose 43% of the ag. labour force in developing countries and that giving them equal access as men to ag. resources could increase production on their farms by 20-30% and reduce hunger by 100-150 million people.

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