How the Netherlands Led a Food Revolution 

Dutchman Syndrome: - Whenever and wherever Dutch is mentioned, loads of Dutchmen will comment they're Dutch.

Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is ranked as the #1 in Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Food in the world. It's all about building strong collaborations between the private - and public sector. Together we achieve more! Groetjes uit Nederland! :)

they went sicco mode

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

At 2:52 the boy says "Just as usual: three glasses of milk a day" *wink*

The Dutch are an impressive people!!! More respect and attention should be given to them since they are accomplishing so many great things. -- With love and respect from an anti-communist Vietnamese

3 Glasses of milk a day and you'll be able to lift a massive ship like that. I think there's something else in that milk too ...

The Dutch never cease to amaze me in both their innovations and tenacity 😃

As the son of a Canadian Soldier that fought his way to Bergen Op Zoom And was wounded, I totally understand the need for the Netherlands Never to fall into what it was in 1944. You honor him with your accomplishments And freedoms .

Yay The Netherlands Toch wel beetje trots op Nederland

So proud of my country secretly! Let's make our country and the world a better place everyday!

I love it when at the start he mentioned food for the first time but the clip is actually showing tullip fields. I know lots of our grandparents had to eat tulips bulbs to not starve during WW2 but this is going to far lol

Vertical farming is the future. Also, you forgot to talk about their university/college that specialises in agriculture ... its like the Harvard of farming. Vox or Vice or one of those types of youtube outlets did a great short doc. on it. Edit: The short doc is called: Why The NETHERLANDS is the World's AGRICULTURE leader?

Mainstream is not talking about the Dutch farmers

We have to save the soil for our next generation

Bloody hell. Some countries are really advanced

had the opportunity to go and visit the netherlands several times. have always been impressed by their organisation. it's perfect...almost too perfect. Dutch people are à bit like scandinavians. Ahead of their time

This is the result when there is a national commitment between the private sector, the people and the government.

From Brazil..Admiro o Povo Holandes.. Admirável País! Congratulations 🙌👏👌

We are so important yet out government wants us gone, sad times

Nice mix of technology, innovation, and hard work to make it a reality

I live on the largest manmade island in the world :)

*IMPRESSIVE COUNTRY*

Wtf "kilograms" of milk? You aren't wrong for using kg but since we're talking about a fluid it'll be beter to talk about liters not kg. But atleast it's still better than gallons and ounces

Very interesting ... Perfection has no limits ! It's worth a look ! *Diligence + advanced technology = Triumph and well-deserved success ! Thank You dear Tom Gibson ! Special thanks dear Bloomberg ! Vl'ado. Nov 02,2018

Back when the Netherlands had actual experts as its ministers instead of trained politicians. How things has change for the worse. Sad

I'm Dutch and I can proudly say.. Bloomberg once again has their numbers off. We're number 2 mostly due to exporting expensive agricultural stuff that's either not edible (like flowers) or has low nutritional value but is valuable (strawberries in the winter for example). So we're second in *value*. The rest, from what I know or could check is more or less correct. Famine, state funding, optimization.. For some reason I couldn't find the 4L water per kg of strawberries, but there are a ton of programs about reusability going on an a *lot* use strawberries in greenhouse so, probably true

Imagine if America ever did this for its people.

As mentioned: the gas bubble we found is in the upper north province of Groningen (Greenings if you translate from old Dutch) and the bottom is quite instable now. Houses there are going down and some are even collapsing. Indeed agriculture flourished because of the gas bubble, but because of this problem, we have to convert to new systems in the greenhouses. Also, global warming starts to be a big issue, and despite the discussion, the conversion starts as well now. The Netherlands had the dryest year in two centuries and probably since Roman times. Large parts of NL are below sea level and great parts of soil are made of peat. If that dries up, the peat just rots away, causing the ground to sink away. The Netherlands is going down, sea levels are rising and we need to innovate even more to keep our country floating again. Where Americans have tons of land to retreat on, we do not. The battle continues and the quest for our country starts all over again.

this is insane. if they can optimize efficiency so well, why can't every other country?

nice. Thanks heaps for this.

Trots op mijn Nederland!

1:28 i guess you could say he went "sicco" mode

18,370 km2 agricultural area of which 59.1 km² are covered by greenhouses, that's 1/310.82sd or 1/311th of the total agricultural land area. While Dutch population is 17.08 million (2017). Total land area is 41,543 km2. This leaves 21,173 km2 for non-agricultural purposes. American population is 350 million which is 20.49 times of the Dutch population.

There are so many greenhouses here that it stays kinda light at night around my place. I'm really proud of what my country did!

This super-intensive agriculture is what's making me willing to migrate.

Oh no! Government intervention in the farming industry?! Look at the chaos and inefficiency they wrought!

@bloomberg the picture 1:40 taken from the village (taken from a plane) is where i live, my house isn’t even build yet. Where did you find it? I would really like to have it, I have never seen it before.

The thumbnail makes it look like a whole different revolution

2:42 Sounds like you picked the wrong accent. We speak Dutch, not Finnish.

You have not mentioned the issues relating to the Groningen gas field. The Dutch government decided in January 2014 to the cut output. There has been a growing risk and thus concern about the amount of damage to properties due to earthquakes. In March 2018 the government announced it would shut down the gas extraction entirely by 2030 for safety reasons. Some say too little too late. But what is not explained is the effect of less cheap fuel for those green houses. Maybe something you can report on?

Bet they, the Dutch, don't spent $700 billion on their military.

great video! Hopefully, they can help developing nations-

unfortunately, cucumbers, tomatoes, paprikas and even organic milk from ekoplaza taste like water, but I need to admit it: even from shitiest milk they can do great cheese

Before the Germans invaded, there was a push to reclaim land for farming. Nord-Ost polder was created, but Flevo-polder where Leylestad is located, had to be put on hold due to the war.

video about the netherlands dutch ppl arrive because nationalism :D

Well I was expecting a big food fight when i clicked on this video but atleast ive learned something

Thank you! Interesting video 🙌

3 glasses of milk a day? Thats probaby why the Dutch are so freakishly tall... That and all the bicycle riding!

I find the final comment quite disturbing. Instead of checking our population growth, some people want to solve the problem with tech and are ignoring all the other implications on our habitat by ever growing numbers of humans.

You forgot to mention that time when we produced so much milk that thousands and thousands of litres had to just been thrown away because there was way to many. This resulted in the government putting a cap on how much milk each farmer was allowed to produce.

The Netherlands, am so lucky to be a dutchmen

Do something that sucks everyday, that’s how you grow

They say Indonesia is agricultural Country It's really ironic the best agriculture Country is The Dutch lol

Proud of my country🇳🇱

4:35 you can hear they added *they now working to change this* in post production to keep the positive vibes

It ain't much if it ain't Dutch 🇳🇱🐄🍺

Imagine if they had the land size of Ukraine

i love how they got too much milk and their response was to convince people to just consume massive amounts of it

Damn these people smart

And today the dutch gov royaly screws farmer

Nice to know my nation can sustain itself when its blocked of from the outside world

The clip of the windmill is playing backwards! (Dutch) windmills always run counter-clockwise when looking at them from the front.

They need Joris Drie Pinter in the Suez Canal, we'll send him to help out!

my country 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱❤️

These types of systems are incredibly fragile tho. Farming one crop that requires fossil fuel inputs is probably not going to be the future of farming. It calls for constant work against natural processes. Permaculture and other holistic land management practices are better options for our food production systems.

Crops which are more weather proof and stay ripe on the flower longer all add up to the small leaps we can do to feed the world.

"Use windmills to drain marshlands" wtf that's fucking genius

And there's still plenty of grass fields. You drive on the highway, and you'll see a lot of unused land.

HOLLAND !

Grappig hoe op iedere engelse video over Nederland allemaal Nederlanders het kijken.

Dutch sounds like English when you're choking.

Hummmmmm

The dutch grow wheat and rice ? Where do they get their staple foods?

Flevoland is a peninsula, notanisland......

How to we take what we have just learned and turn it into results in other places in the world

We grow it, the Americans eat it

0:08 When you mention food, but show tulip (hyacint) fields, that is - plain stupidity or - an insult, referring to the past

4:07 i think you got the calc wrong... The numbers are closer to 27liters/kg of tomatoes! (and approx. 2.7 liters/a single fresh tomato!!!) Still, none of this reduces a bit from huge achievement precision irrigation and high-end greenhouses tech, and with latest improvements these numbers could even drop lower :)

why do i feel so proud im not even dutch

Fantastic, we're the best farmers. Let's get them all bankrupt...

That's truly an incredible feat, given the country's small size. But let me tell you this: I've grown up in a country where 9/12 months of the year the fruits and vegetables we eat are naturally grown, and I've lived in the Netherlands since 2016 where I think almost a 100% of the food at any time always comes from greenhouses. And guess what: it tasted like plastic compared to the real deal. Tomatoes that crunch like apples, peppers that are picked to be visually perfect, yet have 0 to no taste, the fruits aren't any better either, and so on and so on.

1) Mansvelt has nothing to do with the creation of Flevoland. That started before WW II. 2) The cooperation of the farmers, called NSB, was a main reason for increased productivity. 3) The milking robot did not increase milk production so much. This increase happened mainly before the introduction of the robot. Breeding was much more important. Almost all cows are born with the use of A.I. 4) The combining of private property was an important government program. That can be credited to Mansvelt. However that program resulted in creating large industrial farms, called LOG, around the year 2007. This should have been an ecological solution but of cause it was not. Building enormous stables/barn is not the way to be ecologic. That program stopped luckily. And sadly a lot of agricultur area has been turned into so called nature. Most of Netherlands was and is not nature but shaped by the Dutch. Nothing wrong with that. See the landscape around Kinderdijk. All created by the Dutch and very beautifull and full of wildlive.

very interesting, i didn't know this thing

Sometimes I feel low for poor India...

Your welcome from Canada for defeating the nazis and freeing your country

I am dutch, but i am also korean

Once again, perfection. Wheres Ashley though?

ok, but tomatos from Netherlands are testless and look like plastic. Then the higher production rate is meaningless.

Too bad Dutch produce tastes so bland; I lived in Rotterdam for a year and felt like killing someone in rage every time I ate a cardboard-tasting salad.

And our leaders want to destroy this sector

I live in the Flevopolder

1:03 the Soviets too...

The problem with these hyper efficient farming methods is that they do not contain enough nutrients, the taste also becomes much more bland, generally speaking anyway.

Proud to be Dutch. Just shows that size doesn't matter

CGP Grey is going crazy for this video

Very funny how you only casually mention the Americans role in the Dutch recovery.

En niks over het feit dat wij ook bouwen voor de arrabiertjes in Abu dhabi en zo dank u wel

Nederland is de beste plek

You tought it was to horrid or even gruesome (To recall) that they had to eat flower bulbs in those last years of world war 2 (in the winter that we call the “Honger winter”(hunger winter))