This Tiny Country Feeds The Entire Planet

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The world population has reached 8 billion people and increasing by millions year by year. Since 1990 food consumption has also more than doubled and in 2058, the population has expected to reach 10 billion.[vec] As the global population continues to grow, if agricultural yields are not achieved, billions of people may face starvation and hunger. So how on earth we are going feed all these people? Well, one country is setting a blueprint on how to solve food crises and that country is the Netherlands. The Netherlands is a small, densely populated country, with more than 1300 inhabitants per square mile. Even though the Netherlands is 412 times smaller than Russia, its agricultural exports are 4 times that of Russia. Netherland is so tiny, that it is bereft of almost every resource long thought to be necessary for large-scale agriculture. Yet it’s the globe's number 2 exporter of food as measured by value, second only to the United States, which is 270 times bigger than the Netherlands.[vids] Even one of their most popular and long-running TV shows is about farmers finding partners and love. It's like America has the Kardashians, the UK has the Love Island and the Netherlands has this reality TV show but it's between farmers. So you can see how the Netherlands is very obsessed with farming and agriculture.[vid/pics] In terms of fertile land, interestingly, India has 95 times more fertile land than the Netherlands but the Netherlands has 2 times more agricultural export value. How on Earth the Netherlands, being this tiny has achieved tremendous results in producing so much food?
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[@robotuprising1711]

Can you start including your sources in the video description. I think that would help to refute some of the people who dont agree with the claims that are made in the video. Thanks

[@CuriousReason]

Great idea! Compiling them right now!

[@venheartzeil3070]

@@CuriousReason cap.

[@jordan9604]

It also wouldn't hurt to not outright lie and sensationalize everything. 1 country feeds the entire world? So no one else grows any food?

[@CuriousReason]

@@jordan9604 If I said anything factually wrong in the video. You are welcome point it out, I will correct it. If you really want the facts to be verified, just a simple google search is enough, it will clear all your doubts from with various sources. I have fact checked everything in the video. There is a human factor, there might be errors but if there are, please point it out. Regarding sources, its just I lost the bookmarks and pdfs while syncing with my organizer. It takes tremendous amount of time and honestly personal will as well, which I don't have. Cheers.

[@jordan9604]

@@CuriousReason I was upset earlier because every single video had a title that was either misleading or an outright lie. My gripe really isn't with you, just the way you are forced to word things just to get people to watch. It has always been around, just seems like lately everyone is doing clickbait. As I said, I really do appreciate your effort for the videos. I just wish it could be different. :/

[@felineboy1586]

What alot people don't understand is that most other countries like Bangladesh and Egypt have enormous populations and a heavy focus on cash crops like cotton and tobacco that they don't have much food to export

[@dutchman7623]

It is about agricultural production. You cannot eat tulips, roses, or other flowers either. But you are right when a big country with a large population can feed its people, it probably produces more. The Netherlands produces more than they can eat, put in the garden or a vase, there is overproduction that can be sold on the world market. And food is imported as well, like wheat from the US and Ukraine.

[@alfonsklapa3353]

@@dutchman7623 actually you can eat tulips

[@jannetteberends8730]

@@alfonsklapa3353 my mother always complained about their taste. The Dutch eat tulip bulbs in the winter of 44-45, when Germans blocked the roads to transport food to the big cities.

[@jannetteberends8730]

One thing to add, the university of Wageningen is not about money, like other universities. The students are really enthusiastic about their subject. And most of them wants the world to be a better place.

[@dimrrider9133]

And bill gates is destroying everything s we gonne eat his posion food add.

[@Hamsteak]

It's fascinating how a tiny Netherlands is such an agricultural powerhouse

[@CuriousReason]

Whats more fascinating is that agriculture is just a 2% of its economy. The Netherlands is a fintech powerhouse of Europe!

[@StrangerHappened]

@@CuriousReason As I mentioned elsewhere, you forgot to mention the fact that the Netherlands have robbed the world for a half of the millennium with their genocidal racist colonialism, which has allowed the country to be rich and build upon its science and investments in all fields it succeeds in, including the agriculture.

[@smoopel]

What’s most frustrating is that the current government is indeed trying to destroy farming in NL! They want to get rid of 600 farmers because they are accused of ‘producing too much CO2’. Furthermore, natural gas and electricity prices have increased so much that many greenhouse agricultures have to stop.

[@pollutingpenguin2146]

Global population is projected to decline, not increase. Most demographers agree that person number 10B will never be born and once we hit 9B the population will start to decrease which in itself is a massive issue, which is a lot more exiting topic.

[@Lyle-xc9pg]

In europe its an issue, not in others exluding japan

[@pollutingpenguin2146]

@@Lyle-xc9pg it’s a massive issue in the entire world with the Africa being the only exception and a few other single countries such as Turkey. Even India has a birthdate below replacement rate now and will start to decline by the middle of this century.

[@kirkc9643]

Wokeness might help accelerate population decline because these enlightened geniuses seem too forget that hundreds of thousands of years of males and females breeding are what got us this far.

[@jannetteberends8730]

According to new research the maximum will be reached in 2064, with 9,7 billion people.

[@garretlevi]

Imagine if places like California, with there huge water shortages, used some of these practices.

[@andersnilsen2731]

the whole world should...

[@renekuipers4563]

Many Dutch farmers are in Calafornia ..Emigrants ...South Afrika .Canada..Ukraine .also..

[@louisavandongen8037]

I live in the Netherlands and here the farmers are forced to be bought out by our corrupt government... No farmers, no food.

[@dimrrider9133]

We will win from the crooks of DH

[@YunTomeq]

Great video. I love how you used areal footage of Willemstad, Curaçao, technically part of the Kingdom of Netherlands.

[@smitchered]

Hey, pretty good! The titles and thumnails are getting better!

[@dimrrider9133]

Im a greenhousebuilder and only we Dutchies can build em so we travel all around the globe :)

[@pneumonoultramicroscopicsilica]

Anyway I subbed to you when you had less than 10k subs congrats on getting 100k subscribers

[@CuriousReason]

Thank you soooo much!!

[@renevaanhold]

Great to see a footage of Curaçao (00:45) in the Caribbean as part of an agricultural powerhouse. 😂

[@Pykenike1]

That whole nitrogen discussion in the netherlands is an intresting topic to dive into. It doesn't really seem like the goverment wants to combat climate change in a fair way as it's using paper realities where NOX and NH3 are treated in such a way that airports can operational, but farmers have to reduce nitrogen with 95%. It feels as if some parties are not as important to the goverment as others. It's not so much climate change that challenges us here, but climate change response that really gets us into trouble.

[@CuriousReason]

I think the government is so harsh on farmers because agriculture is just 2% of the Dutch economy and not much of a big deal for those sitting in the high cabinets. 70% of all carbon emissions are done by 100 companies and coorporations globally but governments around the world like to kick the little guy lectuing about climate change while shutting down nuclear power plants (which is as envimentally friendly as solar/wind). Big coorporations own all these governments, that's why governments don't have a choice but attack farmers and common people.

[@Pykenike1]

@@CuriousReason couldn't agree more. Also farmers land is cheap of it's not valueable (because farming is impossible with nitrogen issues) and thus lucrative for other purposes. (I.e. housing).

[@svdgnl]

@@CuriousReason dude this is a bunch of BS. The farmers have the most powerful lobbygroup in the last 50 years. A statement from the minister of agriculture about the farming industrie in the 80: nowere in the world does less then 5% of the people has so much power. They do not have to reduce there nitrogen by 95%. And nitrogen is a local problem, the surrounding area is suffering. So if schiphol stops that does not help the nature in Groningen of noord Brabant. And the government is forced by a court order to do this. If it was not for the judge it would be business as usual and de government en the farmers would destroy nature like they did fdor decades. The farmers are responsible for 60% of nitrogen emissions. They also own almost 70% of the land in the Netherlands. Also 20% of the farmers are miljonairs. And stop with the climate change argument, it has nothing to do whit it.

[@svdgnl]

@@CuriousReason and if you do not have a understanding of dutch politics, maybe you should not talk about it.

[@hotdognl70]

@@CuriousReason You do completely miss the effects of "Brussels". Dutch administration has to follow the European directives. Being also the most dense populated country and one of the smallest in the Union it is a huge challenge to find the ballance between housing, farming and nature. In the pas that ballance was disturbed IN FAVOUR OF FARMERS when they were exempted of NOx/NH3 limits to give them more room to expand their busines. Now they have to get back in line and that hurts. Futhermore you seem to mix up the CO2- and NOx issues as well as "the climate" and "nature" for the sake of throwing impressive numbers in to the discussion. Don't get me wrong, I completely agree with @Pykenike1 about the Dutch government doing too much on paper only and my sympathy lies more with farmers than government but the farming industry is not exactly the "little guy" here.

[@macsmich8273]

Leave it to the Freaky Deaky Dutch

[@Thebreakdownshow1]

101 k great work keep putting the work

[@CuriousReason]

Thanks! Will do!

[@j.b1353]

Price ≠ caloric value

[@tomjohnston3393]

Is the Netherlands exporting food produced in it's own borders or are they exporting other countries food?

[@kagenekoUA]

As far as I know, both.

[@witness1013]

@@kagenekoUA very little

[@koenwaalde]

both although most of the export goes to germany,

[@stijnvanbrummelen6290]

That number shown at 1:40, 100 bil+ includes export of other countries food. It also includes for example cigarettes made here, with imported tobacco

[@dimrrider9133]

your strawberrys come from my village in the south of the Netherlands from Beekers berrys ;p aka berries world

[@alexfolfy1657]

4:20 wait asecond, thats turkish lira!

[@aitorbleda8267]

Agricultura exports value is not equal to feeding. It is good business, but certainly not calories.

[@svdgnl]

The gouvernment does not care? Yes they do, the farmers will be compensated. But they are forced by a court order to limit the emissions. This intensive form of farming is not good for the surrounding nature.

[@RK-cj4oc]

" compensated" yeah too little and not by their choice. All good that a court order said so. The goverment has to put its people first. " surrounding nature" we dont have any. We just have fields.

[@svdgnl]

@@RK-cj4oc 😂 I hope you see the irony. Indeed there are all fields, that is the F ing problem. There should be nature there. And the government should also think of the people in the future. No nature=No food.

[@RK-cj4oc]

@@svdgnl Buddy. If those fields get bought by the goverment. There is not going to be nature there. But buildings. We dont have nature nor are we going to.

[@jannetteberends8730]

Farmers always think they are special. In all industries people lose jobs due to the change in the society. Why should farmers be treated differently.

[@uchannel1197]

Farmers from the Netherlands must instead farm in the Philippines particularly in Mindanao.

[@harrybartlett197]

It’s not about how big it is. It’s about how you use it 😏

[@rheijm9201]

Food goes by airlines? Are you completely totally bonk zz?

[@AndyEvolves]

If Netherlands is located in Central Europe, I am 🎅 and I have brought you no presents, because your Geographical knowledge is beyond comprehention

[@CuriousReason]

Some parts of Netherlands are in the central Europe but yeah, I should have said Western Europe mostly, just a minor mistake ;)

[@AndyEvolves]

@@CuriousReason Which parts of Netherlands are in Central Europe? 🤔 Please enlighten me. Thank you

[@RFGfotografie]

If the whole world would farm like us, food shortages and hunger, will never be a problem anymore. And also a lot of cost/problems and so on will be cut down to managable levels. Sadly the world is to stupid/egotistical to agree our method is the best.

[@sjakiedevuilnisman]

if the whole world would farm like us, there would be no world because we would all die of climate change.

[@AustinPerdue]

Exceptional video. So many channels recycle and regurgitate content. This was the first I've heard on the topic.

[@ivmawho]

Jokes on you. Try searching the exact same title and you’ll find something very similar from not so long ago.

[@lexburen5932]

the EU imposes these carbonoxide policys, thats why we protest, and with succes, we won the protest

[@Pan_Torcha]

use square kilometres!!!

[@CuriousReason]

Yes, sir.

[@empresslithia]

Farmers work in Hectares though. Just divide by ten.

[@Omer1996E.C]

@@empresslithia by hundred

[@kimjoseph3080]

That's true pandemic killing alot

[@RFGfotografie]

Finally a video that talks about the Boerenprotesten, though a bit short in my opinion, as it deserves a whole video on it's own. It was one of the most amazing protests ever since I am alive in my eyes. Seeying a big Dutch Higway with enourmous traffic volumes. Just being empty, to then suddenly seeying that same amount of traffic, in the form of tractors. I mean, that whole experience will be with me for live. It ws freaking EPIC. Though it didn't help at all, because the Stikstofcrisis is killing us, not just the farmers, but us as a whole...

[@mahmodulhasan7]

What about Bangladesh🇧🇩 🔥❤️

[@felineboy1586]

The enormous population and the focus on growing cotton takes most of the agricultural output

[@mahmodulhasan7]

@@felineboy1586 no

[@jannetteberends8730]

The Netherlands do work in Bangladesh. There is a project with 10,000 farmers. They learn how to grow salt-tolerant crops on land affected by salt water. In fact The Netherlands and Bangladesh are both river deltas, so have the same problems with climate change. Both struggle with salinized soil, and flooding. With the last problem the Dutch are also involved. Doing research and building protection against the sea. When you search on: protection against flooding in bangladesh, you find a video about that, by the university of Wageningen. The same university mentioned in this video.

[@blyat5352]

Copied topic from Pandora US

[@hamzad5755]

#antinatalism 10 billion is too much for this world

[@cambenson4402]

Why is that?

[@oneshothunter9877]

@@cambenson4402 Really? Isn't it quite obvious?

[@cambenson4402]

@@oneshothunter9877 No, that's why I asked. Can you give some reasons why 10 billion is too much?

[@hamzad5755]

@@cambenson4402 go to africa or india or pakistan then you will understand

[@cambenson4402]

@@hamzad5755 So the fact that there are underdeveloped countries is evidence that the earth's carrying capacity is under 10 billion? Actually the vast amount of undeveloped/unfarmed land in Africa is evidence that there a lot more opportunity to grow the population.

[@pneumonoultramicroscopicsilica]

Why nobody wished that you got 100k subscribers

[@blyat5352]

Are you a Dutch nationalist who wants to make his tiny country seem relevant?

[@RK-cj4oc]

Hahahah. Reality must be hurtfull for you

[@situationsixtynine8743]

Your stupidity is showing, grow up

[@MrMezmerized]

What a weird comment. Anyway, definitely not a Dutch accent, I think Eastern European, though Curious Reason itself is based in the US.

[@witness1013]

No, they don't. What an enormous amount of nonsense.

[@witness1013]

@@underwaterlaser1687 oh, facts hurt your tiny mind, ahahhaha

[@situationsixtynine8743]

Idiot

[@trevortaylor5501]

The netherlands doesn't even make the top ten in wheat, this is nonsense. Good try though. Value means nothing, volume is how this works.

[@JaccoSW]

Sure, cherry pick you favourite crop and hold that up as evidence. By that logic the US doesn't even make the top 25 when it comes to flowers and the US doesn't even export a 3rd of the tonnage of potatoes (not even top 5)

[@h50herman]

this is not about wheat, this is about everything of agriculture

[@situationsixtynine8743]

You must be American, so your ignorance is accepted

[@witness1013]

Precisely zero of Canada's food comes from Netherlands. Clickbait nonsense title

[@cylais3518]

Could you please elaborate?

[@witness1013]

@@cylais3518 what's not clear, Netherlands doesn't export anything of meaningful value to dozens of countries, which is easily verifiable by a quick Google search. The claim that they feed the world, is completely untrue.

[@CuriousReason]

FYI, Canada exports lots of Dutch poultry, dairy etc. No wonder why Canada has one of the highest grocery prices with this attitude.

[@witness1013]

@@CuriousReason lol, that is of course not true.

[@CuriousReason]

@@witness1013 In Canada you have to take a loan to buy 1 kg of bananas, lol.

[@StrangerHappened]

*I LOVE the accent.* What kind of origin is it from? On a serious note: you have forgotten the key reason: the Netherlands have robbed the world for a half of the millennium with their genocidal racist colonialism.

[@f.jansen5198]

Karen go home!

[@RK-cj4oc]

Uhu. And how did that help these farmers make all that food?

[@h50herman]

what an idiot remark, tis is about other things

[@renekuipers4563]

Yes al these countrys .have now poverty..Suriname 50 procent .loved the kolinisator now An live here..An stil they come..