Billions in damages: How to stop the drought crisis? | Transforming Business

[@32stevo]

Bring back the wetlands we have more rain now then ever recorded, the idea that Europe is in drought is crazy.

[@hurry2011]

How to stop droughts from causing agricultural crises? The video showed many clips of what not do, but no clips of what to do to have a better and more resilient agriculture. The clips showed tractors tilling the land and that's the first thing we need to avoid, no-till agriculture and growing cover crops all year helps retain more moisture in the soil is one technique to help alleviate the impact of droughts. In the case of Spain the failure of the Olive crop is due to the varieties of Olive trees introduced in recent years. The Olive is drought tolerant but Spain invested in super high density orchards where trees are growing close together, this olive tree variety does not grow deep roots so it needs to be irrigated and is not resilient. Farmers in the Netherlands use 1/10 of the water to grow a variety of crops like tomatoes, lettuces, etc. using hydroponics and other techniques, the documentary should have included that.

[@toyotaprius79]

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[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

hydroponics isn't ecology. soil stores carbon. That's ecology.

[@hellious7670]

It has been found that beavers are beneficial, their effect is to spread water. If they are managed by rangers to keep their dams in check. Finding species of beaver that are suitable to certain climates is a natural solution to this problem.

[@russchamberlain8755]

Trees increase. Co2 to convert to O2. The trees will also hold humidity.

[@CHMichael]

Fields are larger, less diverse, more runoff, less trees and rock walls as dividers . India is doing very well with permascape. Much easier to ask for money than to change habits. Israel is the other solution if you have the money and knowhow.

[@toyotaprius79]

Israel has what solution? Violently stealing land from Palestinians?

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

India is "doing well"? Hence India stopped rice exports and their coffee crop took a plunge. there's no escape from abrupt global warming - it's global!!

[@tfhmobil]

Keep the fields green. If fields are kept green, the fields keep 98% moisture in the soil. Just a slightly different agricultural approach. No till technology seems to be the key.

[@Jonathan-tm3jg]

At some point these documentaries get a bit difficult to watch because it's like we all know or should know that we are Consuming To such a degree that our greed is now affecting the planet, but no one who actually CAN change Things, i.e. billionaires, will change things. Right now we need solidarity across class to sustain our collective humanity and that sounds quite impossible given how self-oriented we all are.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

class or economics isn't going to save us. Humans lived as hunter-gatherers for 200,000 years. It's the invention of agriculture that caused this - with hoarding food as patriarchy. Yes it's too late now but study our original human culture to know how we used to live successfully. thanks

[@GaasubaMeskhenet]

Should have stopped monoculturing sooner

[@rupakjha5603]

Then u should be ready to pay twice the current price

[@GaasubaMeskhenet]

@@rupakjha5603 why me and not the billionaires?

[@toyotaprius79]

​@@rupakjha5603do you even know how markets work? Who owns market share to the food you live off of?

[@toyotaprius79]

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[@volkerengels5298]

Let's discuss that again in 2040 at +2.0K. By now people are not serious enough with the issue. Grasses are already suffering from climate change. Stalks are too weak due to co2 over-fertilization. The nutritional value drops for the same reason

[@Rnankn]

It is insane people are going to wait until it is unbearable before they act on something that is irreversible. Unforgivable really..

[@toyotaprius79]

CO2 oversaturation you mean

[@volkerengels5298]

No - I actually meant the fertilizer effect of co2. This only works if there is correspondingly more sunlight and water available. This is certainly not the case when c02 is almost doubled. In addition, the increased co2 content disrupts communication in the biosphere. Both within species and extraspecific. Both can explain the observation: the stalks of grass are becoming weaker, leaves are more - but also thinner. This makes it more susceptible to drought and wind. Saturation comes later... :)@@toyotaprius79

[@doniehurley7634]

Our cup overfloweth here in Ireland people visiting and natives complaining about the rain it would be a million times worse if we did not have it

[@RogierYou]

Price increases are mostly cause by price gauging. Just look at the benefits from the distributors (not the farmers!). And the salaries of the CEO’s and you know enough l.

[@Rnankn]

It’s disturbing that companies and individuals who are responsible for warming the planet will benefit from it. If we keep using price signals, food shortages and crop failures will push up prices. Scarcity enriches owners, while regular people will be priced out. The only fair way forward is public ownership, total material equality, or rationing. And we should not be timid when capitalism is causing the end of the world, markets are no longer sacrosanct.

[@samueljr.2026]

At least six months to next rain.

[@russchamberlain8755]

Plant crops in valleys. And on hillsides. Use tree breaks.

[@hellious7670]

Introducing species like beavers on mass to waterways will help. Yes they have to be managed by rangers also to keep them in check.

[@dfriz8513]

Drain all the fields to maximize acreage all you do is make deserts. Takes water to make water.

[@brll5733]

Vertical farming? Needs a lot of electricity though.

[@veramae4098]

I have "legally protected wetlands" on my family farm. Farms south of me drain water and silt into the area, for 100 years. The wetlands are disappearing. For 20 years I've been trying to get the drainage dept. (which is legally required to support wetlands) and the conservation district to do something. I'm 71. I give up. P.S. In the last 5 years twice the area has gone dry. It's dry now. 3X.

[@krm2000-DRM]

America and other countries Need to modify the lakes and rivers add barriers to collect rain water to prevent droughts block people from fishing jet ski, boating etc can’t build property near or around them. Rebuild all of them. Add barriers walls that hold water not leak water only way to fix help Mother Nature Like nothing never happens 😊

[@TheLivirus]

Europe decided that their most fertile farmland is better used for geopolitical standoff. In the process Europe also made enemy with world's main supplier of nitrogen fertilizer. One would suspect that this may contribute to rising food prizes, but let's focus our attention on climate change.

[@toyotaprius79]

Forgetting how damaging artificial fertilizer is

[@TheLivirus]

@@toyotaprius79 Perhaps, but we have built a world that depend on it. Without it we can't feed current world population.

[@russchamberlain8755]

Trees. Plant trees. Roosevelt. Did this in the US in 1935 to 1942

[@A3Kr0n]

Natural capital accounts? That's the solution? We're in murderous insanity now. Nature Bats Last.

[@MrLoobu]

Or, we just let it happen and charge more and more! That's been the choice so far, and it isn't a choice any longer.

[@Rnankn]

First as the tragedy of stealing the world through ownership, then as the farce of decimating it while getting rich. Class act.

[@krm2000-DRM]

Can’t plant produce in plain dirt - must be in a bin container of some sort , water and ground dirt do not mix well do not get along, farmers need to add buckets 🪣 apon buckets of produce on the field stop depending on ground surface common sense scientists will say samething and agree

[@sunnycriti9809]

China and India started greening on time ? You cannot expect the West to be ecological. The West thinks that you have to submit Nature for economis.

[@Seawithinyou]

Ban Pesticide and Fertiliser To bring back Soil nutrition Permaculture is being used more so in New Zealand and other farmers globally are starting to realise the true benefits from this 🕊🌏💖

[@russchamberlain8755]

Plant trees

[@TheLivirus]

Let me guess, the answer is to transfer farmland ownership from small independent farmers to a certain giant multinational corporation who promises it can totally prevent crises.

[@silverflame2501]

Even the agricultural sector is responsible for ..... Green house gases🙈🤷🤷

[@Christos-pf5vk]

I know you have no clue read more read land rules in your bible it is precisely the same in every bible.

[@balsarmy]

Egypt created Sahara

[@gregcrowe8885]

Consumerism. we are on our way out of here destroyed our home as planned

[@bob.fagg-bois657]

If humans and their machines etc are to blame for the state of the planet as it is, what started it all at the end of the ice age when all the ice started melting and man did not have machines?

[@toyotaprius79]

It's capital. Large, private multinational capital.. The ceaseless, insanity of chasing profit for the sake of it because that's good business.