France hit by drought: Farmers bear the brunt • FRANCE 24 English

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In this edition, we're looking at one of the key consequences of climate change: drought. From parched fields, to burning forests, to houses cracking as the ground beneath them dries up, droughts are becoming more frequent in France and around the world. As scientists look for solutions, many are calling for changes to our agricultural model and the way we consume, in the hope of conserving Earth's most precious resource: water.
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@louisdiedricks7110 2 года назад

The drought in France sounds a lot like what is happening in California and other Western states.

@tyn6211 Год назад

Disappearing snowpack in all mountain systems. Think of snowpack as a water yearlong water reservoir.

@TomTom-xp2jb Год назад

Also like what's happening in the Himalayas and the Alps. It's really depressing to consider the eventuality of no glaciers and no water for all that farmland and all the people. Scary times.

@puraLusa Год назад

They need to farm design, the whole south europe needs this - redraw farms and techniques with permaculture principles and watter storage processes, mulch (a lot of it). This is doable but intensive cash crops and agro lobby (monsanto and company) are preventing the evidant clear solution.

@TomTom-xp2jb Год назад

Couldn't agree more! Thankyou for your thoughtful comment. I like how you emphasized mulching! As a gardener I understand the importance of this practice. Also underground water storage tanks is perfect for these draught-stricken zones. 👍

@sunnycriti9809 Год назад

Beat the Loggers before they destroy us ? Deforestation will destroy us ?

@alixmordant489 Год назад

Good report. I especially like the interview with Florence Habets. Very nuanced and intelligent, not shying away from inconvenient truth. Sadly, most of us still hope for easy solutions. But there is no silver bullet. We have to produce and consume much less. As seen in invisible water.

@ladybirdtravels 2 года назад

Our planet is giving us so many warning signs that she is at capacity.

@AstroGremlinAmerican 2 года назад

And with expectations that developed nations take care of developing nations. Developing nations need birth control not temporary fixes.

@farmerfreakeasy9577 2 года назад

It's over-capacity. We probably reached capacity back in 1888.

@okcantbelieveit294 2 года назад

Simply too many people chasing ever diminishing resources! It’s not going to get any better until the world goes through it’s normal climatic cycle which takes centuries! Forget about renewable energy! It’s only ever going to supply a mediocre amount of energy!

@triplethreatmatt 2 года назад

She's bursting at the seams

@That.Lady.withtheYarn 2 года назад

@@AstroGremlinAmerican They need education. Women need an education. Do they can Pull themselves out if poverty. End child marriage.

@PeterSedesse 2 года назад

People don't realize how dialed-in we have made crops. They are manipulated for highest production but require exact conditions. A late frost, a dry spell at the wrong time, and everything collapses. In reality, the way we have manipulated the genetics of our crops makes it impossible for us to deal with climate change. A few decades ago we used strawberries that produced for almost 4 months and survived abnormal weather. Now we grow strawberries that need to be harvested at 5 weeks, or there is 30% loss. There are two problems, first is obviously the effects of climate change, but second is big Ag has gone too far and now everyone is growing the wrong type of crops for climate change.

@CanadianaSally 2 года назад

We have a lot of people to feed.

@higreentj 2 года назад

China is switching to greenhouses and vertical farms so they can produce more food all year round in a controlled environment with much less water and pesticides.

@alexbort3082 2 года назад

Reducing energy consumption, reducing food consumption... Future is bright

@anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180 2 года назад

Dont forget inevitable war

@svanteforsman8244 2 года назад

No. Reducing fossil fuel energy consumtion and reducing animal food consumtion.

@alexbort3082 2 года назад

@@svanteforsman8244 is there any difference?

@svanteforsman8244 2 года назад

@@alexbort3082 Energy: solar, wind, nuclear, Food: plantbased diet, fermentation, cultivated meat etc. We will produce more energy and we will be able to feed more people.

@alexbort3082 2 года назад

@@svanteforsman8244 in reality: energy only when sunny and/or windy with lots of pollution because of mining lithium and nickel. Eat bugs yourself because I'm gonna enjoy steaks.

@LysanderLH 2 года назад

It has been dry here for months. The occasional shower but nothing to replenish ground water and the clay soil is as hard as concrete here.

@LK-pc4sq Год назад

Its global !!! all countries that are between the equator and 43th parallel and its caused by global Lanina...trade winds that determine which side sees flooding in this case se asia, and drought on western side of pacific ocean.

Год назад

@@LK-pc4sq No.

@davidcurry4433 2 года назад

Simple Question; How many Reservoirs have been built in France in the past 50 year's, you can't cry you've got NO water if you've got NO means of storing it.. Like in the UK we know there's going to be a water shortage, but are we doing anything about it... NOPE

@higreentj 2 года назад

France and UK have an extensive canal system so they could move water around the country.

@janisrands8990 Год назад

And all they can talked about and actually are doing, is remove dams....let the fresh water run to the sea....It will have to be a gigantic human effort to learn how to conserve and save water.

@raykenley Год назад

No forest or grassland to stabilize heatwaves if there are no wetlands and beavers ecosystem.Before whole Europe were cover with this and Europe were safer from extreme weather.Since human wipe out beavers and the surrounding fragile ecosystem,all forest slowly disappeared and birth of the Spain dessert. History repeat itself over and over again but human never learn.

@shaunhall960 2 года назад

We need to start working together globally to deal with drought around the world.

@TomTom-xp2jb 2 года назад

Awesome comment Shaun. So true!!! Unity is the key. 👍

@nuprinfeelgood Год назад

we should begin by stopping the practice of calling it a drought. It is ARIDIFICATION due to climate change. Drought implies the water levels and rainfall will come back one day...evidence is proving otherwise.

@johninaryan951 Год назад

And go back to " I need something, not I want something, and walk or buy a bike.

@tacocruiser4238 2 года назад

I think it's the extended La Nina that is causing this. We could have the third consecutive La Nina this winter.

@damsh6408 Год назад

In Europe we are more affected by Gulf Stream and jet streams coming from Africa

@permiebird937 2 года назад

Water needs to be stored as high as possible in the landscape. Seriously look at P.A. Yeomans Keyline system of land development, that increases the land's fertility, by storing water in the land.

@permiebird937 2 года назад

@Terry Winderweedle Are you volunteering to be the first of that rapid purge?

@user-fi5bh7cp9e Год назад

Instead of concentrating to CO2, that has nothing to do with warming, we should concentrate on how we live, how we use resources, to stop overconsumption, to stop over exploring the land around us etc….. However if we do take care, someone will not get rich and there is problem….

@abbyadams8691 2 года назад

Sad that no one cares about our future despite all alarming warnings.

@symphantic4552 Год назад

This needs more views

@billfeld5883 2 года назад

In the Red River of the north we're between 2"-4" (5-10 cm) over our average rain fall and flooding is happening in our region!!!! 2022

@antoniovillanueva308 2 года назад

I am in western Montana and it has rained for days. I was in New Mexico and Arizona, the region is scary dry.

@nileshyalkar1764 2 года назад

spnf/zbnf may help. ground water must be replinished by small dams using contouring analysis.

@marcelogaea1064 2 года назад

Agriculture, production, overpopulation dependent on food, synthetics plus the necessary use of fossil fuels for all three. We are all pain grillés

@AstroGremlinAmerican 2 года назад

toast

@jenifferhiggins8160 2 года назад

How is the world overpopulated when western countries are below replacement level? People in western countries will soon be extinct so that will solve your so called "overpopulation "problems

@ZubairKhan-vs8fe 2 года назад

The planet will survive. We won't

@richardrandall3539 Год назад

There is so much water in some countries - like Finland.

@matwinner9708 2 года назад

Everything going to the crapper all at once

@jeanneamato8278 Год назад

We will all bear the brunt of what we’ve done to our only home.

@tombeilharz4880 Год назад

Goat farmer needs to learn to manage his heard! Why are goats inside eating hay! When they should be out on that hay field eating natural grass! Rotated property will make very healthy soil. Healthy soil holds more water. In times of drought natural grass does great things!

@devinnlimbu7989 Год назад

WOW😍

@ElvisPresley4Hire 2 года назад

That’s odd. In Britain it was unseasonably cool last summer and the same this summer. Never worn gloves on my bike so late in the year. Warming up now to normal temperatures thankfully.

@voxintenebris6367 Год назад

We are either getting hot weeks followed by a return to cold weeks or hot daytime temperatures followed by cold nights. We had frosts in Wales in July this year, down to 8C overnight last week. I remember the drought of 76 when I could walk on the riverbeds, the last drought forced staff to transfer fish from reservoirs by helicopter to safer places. This man made/ carbon narrative is being used to exploit the naivety of the young. Climate is constantly changing and it is primarily driven by the sun. We exhale carbon dioxide, plants absorb carbon dioxide and generate oxygen. GLobalists are steering the narrative to shape their own agenda.

@onionpie52 2 года назад

Dry and thirsty. Should make for some interesting elections as people suffer.

@AstroGremlinAmerican 2 года назад

Politicians are responsible for everything. I had a major fart, it was giant. Which politician can I blame?

@ForeverNeverwhere1 2 года назад

@@AstroGremlinAmerican Macron of course.

@carinwiseman4309 2 года назад

Permaculture!

@sunshine7453 Год назад

More reservoir is the solution plus conservation.

@bordersw1239 2 года назад

Went to France a few years ago in the middle of a heatwave -34C in Brittany,arrived at our accommodation, opened the door, huge clap of thunder and then basically rained for 3 weeks. Weather has a tendency to catch up, with the odd bad year in between.

@Zara-jl5zw 2 года назад

And in the UK we have had some light showers on an evening .grass is growing fast

@Zara-jl5zw Год назад

@B D sorry does not fit the agenda of global warming if the weather is as it has been for years

@aaronrachkara6907 Год назад

You even still have green?😂😭 And no rain for only months?

@patricksmith4424 Год назад

I always wondered why they can't extract all the fresh water from rivers as they near the sea, this would not deplete the river and would supply enormous quantities of debatably clean water. This could be stored in huge closed plastic recycled tanks.

@divx1001 Год назад

Are you sure it won't deplete the river? I'm not an expert but there definitely is a replenishment period, so we can't be extracting that water continuously. Other than that I'm surprised our agriculture is so behind on technology. There's not that many countries that have invested in infrastructure for rain water collection, desalination plants and/or any other water conservation technologies.

@patricksmith4424 Год назад

@@divx1001 thinking about what you said you may have a point. My logic is that when the river meets the sea it has run its course so all that water is going to become sea water. As sea level is the lowest point on the river. Then no matter how much fresh water is taken out then, the volume and course of the river would be unaffected. Of the depth of the river it self, maybe would effect it at that point. Water extraction from rivers effects the river beyond the extraction point and not before, I think!

@damsh6408 Год назад

@@patricksmith4424 Oh it matters way more than you think for the ecosystem

@b28ben 2 года назад

i heard that USA made a drinking water using sea but not so sure if it work on plants i hope u share my comment i maybe not smart but at least i have a word say it might help or maybe not

@alixmordant489 Год назад

A shortsighted technocratic pseudo solution with lots of bad side effects. And it will only mean that we let the problem fester. Listening to this report you see the many negative effects of drought and water shortage,. One has to tackle the origins of the problem, as said in the report.

@farmerfreakeasy9577 2 года назад

You can try fixing it as much as you want..... it'll do no good. Sort out overpopulation, that's the only thing that'll bring salvation.

@backpackpepelon3867 2 года назад

Abortion is one way for that

@farmerfreakeasy9577 2 года назад

@D R And more destruction to our embattled environment..... Bankers + industrialists took the easy way out with exponential immigration growth, but it'll cost them in the long run, when this country finally outlaws the expansion of towns, cities, and immigration.

@alixmordant489 Год назад

Yes, population growth has to be tackled, urgently. But the overconsumption in rich countries is the reason no. 1 for the problems we see right now. Therefore, overconsumption and the growth dogma in economics have to be changed. Quickly.

@damsh6408 Год назад

@D R Defenetely not true since Frances population still is growing since the 70's and the global population is growing triple the speed

@billfromthe442ndtranscompa2 Год назад

France would do well, to invest in Seawater desalination, as we will not run out of saltwater! There is a way to more than double the freshwater the Israelis desalination units, making 100 million gallons a day and a way to make more energy efficient! The people of France needs to demand these!

@davidforbes3855 2 года назад

Another candidate for desalinization. Necessary I think with all the freshwater pouring into the ocean from the poles.

@antbonyziemiak208 Год назад

Drip irrigation is the answer.

@tegrity-farms9842 2 года назад

nice organic material on your farms.. oh soil water retention gone due to bad farming practices

@antbonyziemiak208 Год назад

Weather in cyclical. Warm spells cold spells dry spells wet spells.

@arlenesmith5143 2 года назад

Watershed comes from forests.

@religiontoresponsibility5078 2 года назад

🙏🌍SAVE SOIL🌍ORG🌍🙏

@alixmordant489 Год назад

Funny.

@mackdudley4901 2 года назад

This is the beginning of the end as we know it laugh if you like but they laughed before the great flood to 🧐🤔

@cobrapatrol 2 года назад

droughts, flood, make up your mind...

@That.Lady.withtheYarn 2 года назад

Climate change affects a lot

@jeromefitzroy Год назад

Yet when I was in France a few years ago for 3 months, it rained non-stop! Half of my vacation photos are just fogged

@janisrands8990 Год назад

Just guess which crop.....ahem...uses lots of water?

@damsh6408 Год назад

Corn mainly

@cfwin1776 2 года назад

French farmers: where is that kid Macron. He should be focusing on our problems, not Russia or Ukraine.

@MrToradragon 2 года назад

To the large extent, water management should be done on level of local committees, governments and municipalities and by the farmers themselves, not by central government. You know, government in Paris really can't be bothered by pond in Pouy-Roquelaure.

@tarikmehmedika2754 Год назад

To be honest i am surprised that at least the Mediterranean part of France doesn't use irrigation.

@damsh6408 Год назад

Their crops are adapted to drought which happens every year. But there still is some corn in the Rhône valley which used a lot of irrigation since it doesn't rain in Summer there

@mytorment Год назад

It's was unbearable, everything I worked so hard for was destroyed and there was nothing I could do to stop it 🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭

@lancesay Год назад

desalination plants will need to be build around the world, watch that is coming...

@bff1586 2 года назад

France heatwave comes first In the EU signaling from Africa catastrophic drought.

@pol8ma Год назад

Better water management and lesser use of water are not long term solutions! We need to change the entire social-economic system!

@damsh6408 Год назад

It's kinda part of it...

@pol8ma Год назад

@@damsh6408 It Is. But if you actually only focus on these issues the solution will be ineffective or worse. Liberals are trying to get advantages on this by promoting water privatisation as a solution.

@damsh6408 Год назад

@@pol8ma Most people think, nobody acts, so if small things are changing that's actually a victory since no one is ready to take action and change this system

@cjytispro7349 Год назад

Humans surplus 2 requirements

@JuneJarka 10 месяцев назад

Go to Israel. Copy their methods of water management and agricultural management. Create partnerships with Israeli companies, start ups, and tertiary institutions. Share knowledge and information. That’s one answer.

@kaykay865 2 года назад

Putin did it!

@reginaldblaylock6937 Год назад

THE MOST HIGH IS MOVING.

@deepmind299 2 года назад

Or you could use your cheap power to turn ocean water onto drinking water.

@alixmordant489 Год назад

A shortsighted technocratic pseudo solution with lots of bad side effects. And it will only mean that we let the problem fester. Listening to this report you should have seen the many effects of drought and water shortage.

@deepmind299 Год назад

@@alixmordant489 nothing shirt sighted about making sure people can drunk and eat. If you don't cover the basics you have nothing

@zafaradeel2107 Год назад

Nature's revenge ! ! !God bless this kind of revenge ! ! !

@alexanderjames3045 2 года назад

EU has a big money pot for farmers

@cfwin1776 2 года назад

Money is just papers with pictures on them that allow people to get food without killing each other. Without food, money lose its purpose.

@alexanderjames3045 2 года назад

@@cfwin1776 strawberries grapes and golf courses still get watered in a water shortage all about the cash

@auldfouter8661 2 года назад

you don't eat then?

@bobbieleland7687 Год назад

Gd speaks f this

@SharhbiniRauf Год назад

Salination seawater

@alixmordant489 Год назад

@mytorment Год назад

I was going to urinate but realised it was France burning 🤭

@cfwin1776 2 года назад

I wonder if water is being evaporated into space. If that’s the case, this planet will suffer the same fate as Mars.

@AstroGremlinAmerican 2 года назад

Some wonder, some find out. The answer is no.

@auldfouter8661 2 года назад

seems unlikely with sea levels rising steadily

@smmozza 2 года назад

... good news at last ... but do not worry ... ukraine is there for you ...

@fredmac1000 Год назад

For an English Language Broadcasting, such as this one, it is only Civilized for the guests who are capable of speaking in English, to speak in English,,, To my knowledge, Unfortunate as it may be, the French are Behaving in an Uncivil fashion when it comes to the predominance of English Language. The stories I have heard of Tourists in France, who ONLY can communicate in English, but when in a restaurant are given a French Language Menu and the help does Not acknowledge the English language and creat an Unpleasant situation,,, the most Uncivil from those who claim civility more than others!!

@DanielField2023 Год назад

Too bad we can't create menu for you guy in English we are in France with a French language not a British one I went in Germany the food it's much better than England they have menu in German i didn't make an issue either I stay two days in London they don't have French Menu either I had to order an Italian meal instead a British meal they don't know how to cook in England period. create in English

@andrejmucic5003 2 года назад

global warming means more rain, not less. France just might have poor irrigation infrastucktura, and horrible policy makers. Just a thought.

@sb_____ 2 года назад

control your thoughts before doing basic research

@That.Lady.withtheYarn 2 года назад

Global warming can affect both rain and drought. There's a lot of things climate change can do

@damsh6408 Год назад

You should learn thirst before writing. It really depends of the Earth's area. France is supposed to receive less rain in contrary to South East Asia which will see even bigger mansoons. Also warming temperatures increases the evaporation and drying of soils

@louislamonte334 Год назад

Maybe it's time the French go back to the Catholic Church and start praying for rain!!

@mikkoainasoja5018 2 года назад

This all comes because of the Western war against God. You know your sins so repent before it really gets hard. You do can play ignorant for the real reasons, but what on earth you will win by that? Repent, and revive Christianity and give all glory to God in Yeshua's name. Repent now.

@alixmordant489 Год назад

Great joke. Very funny.