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

[@victorremypedersen2518]

How many people watched this bc of their teachers

[@aviebennison14]

Me

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Me ):

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me

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[@Abinyan]

my teacher told me to watch this, so i did

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[@aviebennison14]

Same

[@jackchampion1455]

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

[@Djorouh]

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

[@celinesilva540]

Hello can u help me out for a thesis for my topic?

[@allanseah1295]

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

[@dawitassefa8360]

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.

[@amabiggirlnow]

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

[@luisfernandez3140]

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 :)

[@holder868]

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

[@wanderllusters]

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

[@ClimvisDe]

Great idea to illustrate how to feed 9 billion people!

[@sovannarithchhe3936]

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.

[@annastepanyan6094]

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.

[@AceofDlamonds]

Yeah, quality over quantity any day. I don't mean to trivialize human life, but millions of people right now have only existed due to cultural factors (large number of children to help around the house/higher status/etc.) We could do great with only 4 billion or less people in fact if the quality of the majority of those people were very high in terms of education, survival skills, and the like.

[@AceofDlamonds]

lord zilu They still need to be educated to prevent the inevitable crisis explosion though... More educated folk tend to know a bit of sex education at least and their elevated status does not need to use a large household as a crutch.

[@2π-θ]

Anna Stepanyan, finally someone with common sense

[@Поля-я3ч]

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

[@soccernomad457]

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!!!

[@Feeding9Billion]

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

[@rhiannonapbrangian]

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.

[@FireweedFarm]

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).

[@AceofDlamonds]

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

[@Conotrant]

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.

[@Feeding9Billion]

Thanks! Nice of you to say. Evan

[@OliveTreeDweller]

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.

[@Feeding9Billion]

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

[@wlfrankiej]

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!

[@Feeding9Billion]

Thanks Frank - Appreciate the comments.

[@olugaek.calvin5892]

I love this. Super interesting presentations

[@iluv1direction645]

hi what software did u use to make this video

[@randomdudes52]

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

[@Feeding9Billion]

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

[@FireweedFarm]

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.

[@njokimwakughu8854]

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!

[@konglingli5565]

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

[@HappinessForYouNow]

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

[@4aSteadyStateEconomy]

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..

[@WLFDubai]

support local farmers and stop food speculations

[@RonnieNolanRaharjo]

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)?

[@augienelson993]

***** What do you have against GMO's?

[@homunculorum]

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.

[@topaazmoons1]

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.

[@aviebennison14]

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

[@joedmenzies744]

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

[@kerrypreibisch2780]

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.

[@RahulKumar-nl7nk]

Mr, Fraser how did you make such a great video

[@kellystinton6098]

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

[@MsMikuHatsume]

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.

[@shannonm.7469]

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[@JamesSamuelNZ]

Towards the end you refer to how climate modelling can help, but this is only looking at the symptoms and not the cause Evan - industrial agriculture is currently contributing 25% of the carbon annually. Please do view Toby's video, just posted yesterday at foodforest dot co (not com)

[@thanhhanguyen5380]

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

[@halpwr]

I wonder how long that took to draw. Total.

[@rodzeroher]

This mossions quites undermines the seriousness of this video.

[@sophiewinters3849]

Really great video

[@karendraper8489]

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.

[@dannyrosenberg4175]

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

[@TheReductus]

Twitter sent me. Super video.

[@SiddickAbubacker]

excellent thinking

[@CountNadir]

growing the food production only increases population because population grows to match food production

[@Starpluslover]

Dr.Mercier from Mac sent me here LOL

[@blakefreer8076]

Fall 2020 - he sure did

[@SamsonPavlov]

Nice work!

[@sustainablebusiness8086]

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[@hanifbimo]

what you made it?

[@Tfg20Minecraft]

This is amazing

[@tyraskids]

Brilliant!

[@AndieBlack13]

Science & Technology is ONLY available to those food producers who can afford it. Most likely those who supply foods-stuffs just barely cover outstanding costs, let alone have extra monies for high tech "solutions".Again, distribution improvements require monies that don't exist. If one can transport X tons of goods via slow, cheap herds of Oxen, they're going to use that, & not the $75,000 truck, spoilage is going to be high, but costs will be low.

[@HappinessForYouNow]

Why don't all people also start to grow stuff in their own yard or in pots, surely that would also help

[@FireweedFarm]

There are many fine ideas here, but some major flaws in the overall analysis, and the flaws are, by far, the dominant perspective in North America. First, "Can X Feed the World? Wrong Question." The problem has been and continues to be a "food poverty crisis," not a food shortage crisis, or food (high) price crisis. Not mentioned here: 80% of "undernourished" are rural, dependent upon farm economy, fair prices. Oversupply is the killer. Decades of this poverty creates dilemmas of higher prices.

[@michaelbest7872]

About food... We either boost production to satisfy our greedy needy ways, or we that have, share with those that have little, until they too, can learn how to help themselves. I'm not saying we should always eat only what our bodies need. We should enjoy life, and food! I'm saying we should understand what food IS. We shouldn't be gluttons and live to eat! In the industrial, free world, we have more than enough to feed the whole world ! Well, let's feed them!!! Then, help teach them to feed themselves!

[@shannonm.7469]

I agree...teach them how to hunt and grow their own...

[@GrubseHD]

Good Video! Teached Me Alot!

[@QuietTimeProductions]

Awesome!!!

[@alexhoward5889]

Yes, this is all true, but people are not going to act unless a real problem occurs. for many they are not affected right now, so don't really want to look to the future.

[@mszeee]

Fantastic response thank you for highlighting the effects of population control on women especially :)

[@gabrielladinapoli5403]

Very interesting video.. !!!

[@JamesSamuelNZ]

Perhaps we need to move beyond agriculture... we seem to be locked into this method of food growing - a modern day version of slash and burn, that reduces sustainable eco-systems into fields. Please see foodforest dot co and Toby Hemenway's video on redesigning civilisation.

[@4aSteadyStateEconomy]

All this effort would be far better put into massive birth control campaigns to quell the problem at the source. The idea that overpopulation is mainly about finding ways to feed people ignores all the other side effects. You know, trivial things like wiping out other species and destroying what's left of the Earth's wilderness.

[@PatrickTSudlow]

Nothing about the corporate take over of the Food system and the damage done already by technology. It is the corporate take over of the food, which is fossil fuel intensive, which leads to 40% of food waste.

[@kunuthursrinivas]

A very good strategy to generate food stocks worldwide to drive out hunger deaths. Whereas, it is equally necessary to plan to feed vast population of lower organisms of plant and animal origin since they are much more hungry than the human beings on Earth. Hunger deaths of humans is projected worldwide in press and electronic media including internet. Whereas, is there any body or organization sincerely working and committed to drive out hunger of plants and animals on Earth except targeting them to feed us forever. Once plant and animal hunger with quality food and environment are taken care of, human hunger becomes a history. Humans are highly selfish and self centered working for their food needs than to worry about plants and animal welfare which have equal right to live and prosper on Earth.

[@menakhemtal448]

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[@danielreuben6852]

Technology is resting in ancient agricultural practices.

[@ZachMilburn]

I can't stand world hunger but this sounds awfully like a political stunt to me. I think this video makes some great points though and would be happy to help.

[@jinonthemoon]

@Xadskad Yup. In theory.

[@potenvandebizon]

Interesting, but what do I literally need to do?

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nice video

[@joacimXD]

I like theese videos.

[@jakewarren9930]

hi

[@jesusontiveros7101]

how many of you are writing a essay about this?

[@berlinminifarm9369]

wait how is 2700 calories and 75g of protein enough? (a heavy working male needs 3000) It is assumed that 2000m² would sustain an average human (without (textile) fibers) of food, but if you try to plan a garden of that size it provides barely enough to feel safe in most farmlands of the world. Only some tropical prime locations with good (volcanic) soil an average temperature between 20-30C and air humidity around 50% can sustain this easily, providing 2x of what would be drastically needed. So just enough to live comfortable with high standards of nutrition and some reserves for bad harvest. In conclusion our global food system is highly reliant on fossil fuels, fertilizers, unsustainable practices of mass production and specializing and global supply chains, which is not safe at all. The notion that 2700 Calories and 75g protein suffice is misleading in this regard! I wouldn't advice one third of overproduction to be safe, but rather 4x the amount!! It seems to me we are not at the edge but almost over it in regards of sustainability and natural reserves. Please tell me how my equation is off

[@dahalofreeek]

Why didn't you draw New Zealand on the map?

[@georgefearn8541]

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[@jinonthemoon]

@StaticxMedicus Are you a westerner? If you are, it would be a much better plan if you used your money to help your own country.

[@gggromay]

What about the meat industry?? Single most important/biggest food and environmental global problem... This video is useless without considering this topic

[@danielbroadbridge886]

It's mentioned at 4:13

[@tijagbeatijagbea2564]

Permaculture is the solution.. Period! build food forests with permaculture.

[@shawnfisher6214]

“There will never be a way for modern communities to feed themselves by local, small farms” I don’t believe this to be true, I envision communities in control of their food supply through locally embedded agricultural technologies I’ve invented a smart farming appliance that grows enough yield and variety to fully supply crops at the point of consumption. This way consumers will be food producers, circumnavigating the conventional ag system and in full control of their food supply

[@funveeable]

It's becoming illegal to own a farm as pace of regulations is faster than innovation. Nitrogen fertilizers are being banned in Netherlands which will put farmers out of business, all because the politicians think Nitrogen is bad for the environment.

[@nunswithgunsvj]

Is this video on creative common license?

[@creativehandsatwork6971]

Did you really draw that

[@discoboy3976]

cabalism can solve over population and world hunger

[@MusikCassette]

We don't need to feed 9 billion. Just about 10 Milliard

[@astarsoccer9604]

Well we divide by the rich countries and feed them and leave the poor countries to defend themselves

[@astarsoccer9604]

Lmao I'm not that cruel I think everyone should try there best to contribute INSTEAD OF RELYING ON PTHER PEOPLE WHO WORK DAY AMD NIGHT TO FEED U, HOW BOUT SHOW A BIT OF GRATITUDE coz I thank my uncle who farms because he works hard for this country

[@notatemp5886]

What’s up with his hands

[@mitchelly5324]

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[@haidosscg9165]

I had to do work on this, thanks for nothing.

[@girlfx3747]

love f(x)!!

[@bbruce995]

why are you trying to feed 9 billion? we have the ability to feed ourselves, why not show people how to feed themselves

[@polygondeath2361]

This was such a great video until he started to beg for government and its noxious regulation

[@bruhhieubruh6484]

L bozo