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The FT's global business columnist Rana Foroohar believes globalisation, as we've known it for the past 40 years, has failed. In the first of three films based on her new book, 'Homecoming: the path to prosperity in a post-global world', she takes a trip across the US to see how neoliberal economic thinking has broken our food supply chains - and what can be done about it. Read more at on.ft.com/3CexB1b
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@deepfuckingabundance
@deepfuckingabundance Рік тому
Anyone who likes this video will LOVE the work of Gabe Brown in Bismarck, North Dakota. Regenerative agriculture is a low tech solution already in practice across the country
@alexandrugheorghe5610
@alexandrugheorghe5610 Рік тому
Check Ecosia videos as well on the topic
@Seafoam58
@Seafoam58 Рік тому
Loved this! Thank you for producing an excellent and hopeful documentary on how to address the results of decades of neoliberal lies and corporate greed. I'd love to see everyone watch this!
@JohnnyPeacenic
@JohnnyPeacenic Рік тому
Me and millions of Americans have been saying this since the 70s. It's not just food It's everything
@Youcanttouchmyhandle
@Youcanttouchmyhandle Рік тому
It is finally happening ✌️
@MRSketch09
@MRSketch09 Рік тому
Well thanks to the internet, youtube, people are finally getting "clued in", sure wasn't "public school" that got us here.
@kevinholmes1048
@kevinholmes1048 Рік тому
hundreds of millions around the world have been saying it since the rise of capitalism.
@marciannaprice1882
@marciannaprice1882 Рік тому
Control the food, control the people. I'm proud to say that that I've advocated to buy local for over 30 years..(I'm 55). I've helped start local farmers markets... Currently working on starting a large community garden in my rural Oklahoma area. I'm hoping to teach people to grow/raise/preserve their food! If we help people with knowledge & skill building..they are less dependent on Corporate America.
@praline4157
@praline4157 Рік тому
❤👍
@hhwippedcream
@hhwippedcream Рік тому
Trying for the same and much respect for your commitment over time. Local food equals local culture which equals Place and intracultural diversity.
@marciannaprice1882
@marciannaprice1882 Рік тому
@@hhwippedcream thank you
@hhwippedcream
@hhwippedcream Рік тому
Most folks have directives from their lifeline
@hhwippedcream
@hhwippedcream Рік тому
Hope you reach out to films gardening in the are. Ask about needs and preclusions. You rock!
@brandonshapiro3194
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Joal Salatin and Greg Judy have shown how to do this in a sustainable, scalable and with very little to zero outside inputs. Best of all they make good money doing it.
@Lavasalsa1
@Lavasalsa1 Рік тому
Joel and Greg are doing much to demonstrate grass-fed/finished meat sustainability but don't forget Gabe Brown in SD. He is demonstrating how no-till grain farming is possible and profitable.
@cherylpomeroy2556
@cherylpomeroy2556 Рік тому
Yes, yes. There are a host of regenerative farmers and ranchers who use little to no inputs outside the farm gate, do not till, have diverse cover crops, create highly organic & carbon rich soil, and include grass-fed livestock for best benefits to soil. They run profitable, resilient operations. Understanding Ag is one great resource for info on regenerative farming in N. America.
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@@Lavasalsa1 I was going to say exactly that! Gabe is a great inspiration. But we must also include urban farming.
@craigdonald551
@craigdonald551 Рік тому
I was thinking the same thing. Not a mention of regenerative agriculture in this video.
@jackson8085
@jackson8085 Рік тому
This myth needs to end. The amount of meat they produce per acre is laughable. It's really not hard to figure out, how many calories does an acre of grass produce...how many calories does an acre of corn produce. It's not even close, corn is way ahead, meaning less land. I think I saw a calculation on how many planets we would need to consume the current amount of beef using only grass fed and it was something like 4.5 earths.. It's all fancy marketing to get you to pay more.
@Lavasalsa1
@Lavasalsa1 Рік тому
Financial Times, I am disappointed you let USDA off the hook for driving small farms out of business. During the 1970s, Earl Butz was Secretary of Agriculture who crowed to family farms, “Get big or get out.”
@jackson8085
@jackson8085 Рік тому
It's a 44 minute video that does not gloss over the cozy relationship between corporate American and it's government. I was rather impressed.
@tccragun
@tccragun Рік тому
You can’t blame the USDA. You have to look at who was the Executive (aka President) in charge when these policies were implemented.
@danrosenbaum1140
@danrosenbaum1140 Рік тому
I’m a firm believer that the Great Depression was designed to bankrupt the family farmers. It’s been down hill since.
@user-px2sn8pr5t
@user-px2sn8pr5t Рік тому
decades ago there was a study that showed that 'Italian' backyard farming was far more energy efficient than corporate farming. Like solar the long term solution if each home supplies itself as much as possible.
@theuglykwan
@theuglykwan Рік тому
There's no going back to that without collapse.
@user-px2sn8pr5t
@user-px2sn8pr5t Рік тому
@@theuglykwan why?
@Hjernespreng
@Hjernespreng Рік тому
That just doesn't work. Climate and soil quality is king, and not even close to everyone even HAVE backyards. There's a reason why *Italy* has it. Everyone trying to provide for themselves also causes food insecurity when it disincentives larger scale production that can better cope with crises like natural disasters, bad crop yield years, and plant diseases.
@user-px2sn8pr5t
@user-px2sn8pr5t Рік тому
@@Hjernespreng You totally don't get it. Italian back yard refers to Toronto. growing your own is to decentralize. same as Solar, wind, geo etc...
@jasondrummond9451
@jasondrummond9451 Рік тому
I"m one of the people that doesn't even HAVE a yard - like so many Canadian urban residents. The Government has systematically funnelled people into easily controllable and profitable (for the overlords) cities - and sytematically cut Canadians off from life in the hinterland. Almost everything outside the 'urban containment boundary' is either corporate controlled farmland or 'Crown Land' leased to forestry and mining corporations. A captive population makes a great 'market' - they have to pay, and pay more, or starve.
@Youcanttouchmyhandle
@Youcanttouchmyhandle Рік тому
40:08 growing in your communities should mean growing medicinal plants also Thank you for the poem 💖
@ogadlogadl490
@ogadlogadl490 Рік тому
I ripped out my lawn in the front yard and put in 30 ft by 4 ft cedar beds. Singed up for a free wood chip drop and mulched the ground around the beds. I have had so much abundance that I was able to share with neighbors and friends and the food bank. Taking matters into my own hands.
@eagledice2008
@eagledice2008 Рік тому
The HOA's in America are wild I hope you survived them 🤣
@combatmedic91-b76
@combatmedic91-b76 Місяць тому
Nice story 👌 👏 👍 😅
@ogadlogadl490
@ogadlogadl490 Місяць тому
@@combatmedic91-b76 True story, got about 50 pepper plants and 30 tomato plants as starts right now to go out in the garden in a couple more months
@chickenfishhybrid44
@chickenfishhybrid44 Місяць тому
​@@eagledice2008not everyone lives in an HOA.. it's something like 30% that do. Not to mention, most people have backyards where they can grow in even in an HOA.
@sether2774
@sether2774 Рік тому
Your property SHOULD have... 1. Food forest (fruit trees, berry bushes, bee hives, worm bins, chickens, etc...) 2. Fish farm/fish pond (each state should encourage fish farming ) 3. aquaponics, hydroponics, etc..... 4. solar generator, gasifier, wood burning stoves, geo thermal energy...
@Youcanttouchmyhandle
@Youcanttouchmyhandle Рік тому
Trying to avoid use of gas and chemicals …..
@dreamleaf6784
@dreamleaf6784 Рік тому
Compost and water collection. And sinking water into the land with rain garden or swales.
@theuglykwan
@theuglykwan Рік тому
@Tim's & Liam's~ Koi, Reptiles, Turtles & Fishies pneumonia?
@pingupenguin2474
@pingupenguin2474 Рік тому
Or as much of it as you can do - not everyone has a property big enough for it all. Even city people can grow a few boxes of salad.
@sether2774
@sether2774 Рік тому
Self Reliance.... 1. Plant a food forest 2. Install water catchment (use solar or ram pump to pump water into raised tank for storage and gravity feed) 3. Install solar power and GEO THERMAL heating/cooling systems
@Youcanttouchmyhandle
@Youcanttouchmyhandle Рік тому
The production of solar panels also uses a lot of resources that are harmful Adapting your gardens to your climate and conditions can help
@richardyoung1358
@richardyoung1358 Рік тому
Outstanding analysis of what it behind ever-increasing scale and intensification in the American food system. And, conversely what is driving small farmers out of business. Although some of this isn’t so blindingly obvious in the UK, many of the same factors are at work here too. This is the first penetrating and perceptive piece I have seen from the FT on food and agriculture, while it is generally so good on almost everything else. Rana Foroohar adds an important balancing perspective after the very upbeat section on vertical farming, but could also have added that once the pioneers crack the technology, which they appear to be doing, its very high-tech, factory characteristics, mean this sector too will be ripe for takeover by the corporations. She might also have added some balance on the piece about engineering plants to fix their own nitrogen. Yes, if it is successful, it could reduce production costs and also have some impact in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with nitrogen fertiliser production, transport and use. But at the same time, it will also make it easier for the continuation of exploitative cash cropping, which is degrading soils and biodiversity decline, when it really needs a return to mixed farming, where crops and livestock are genuinely integrated, and weeds, pests and diseases are controlled by balanced cropping rotations that include a grass and forage legume phase. That may be too big a step even to contemplate in the US at present, but ultimately it’s the only long term solution. Richard Young, Sustainable Food Trust
@rosalbadelriogarcia9598
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There is a big disconnect if you can't grow simple stuff in your back yard and if local farmers can't go to local farmers markets and also sell their meats...
@CM-sy3to
@CM-sy3to Рік тому
It isn't deregulation, it is big government regulation that makes it illegal or financially impossible to grow ones own food and sell the public.
@jackson8085
@jackson8085 Рік тому
@@CM-sy3to Dead wrong. Deregulation was the goal of globalization, i.e. if you can't deregulate your current environment, move it offshore. Unless you're talking about HOA not letting people grow a garden, there are very few US government regulations preventing people from growing a garden and selling it at farmers markets. I go to a farmers market evry weekend and see plenty of hard working small farmers, maybe put down the joint, turn off Joe Rogan, and get your hands dirty.
@joshgiraud
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Great comment, thanks for the critiques. And yeah. Leaving the whole diversity of the ecosystem intact is the only way to sustain the ecosystem at the end of the day and technology should just support that, there isn't a substitute for that. Seems like that would be obvious. What are we trying to sustain other than the ecosystems themselves?
@reecebailey286
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I'm a Brit living in Switzerland, and the 2 things these countries farms have in common, is inappropriate agricultural land area for the populations they need to support. The UK has the sea and fishing, while the alps are used for grazing cattle, but these differences are eclipsed by the mentality of the populous, and the government support framework that allows independence of the Swiss model... Companies in Switzerland have to (at their expense) hold a minimum of 6 months supply of goods that can't be domestically produced (like coffee). This shielded the country from supply shocks. But the love of the people of "made in Switzerland" and their willingness to spend on it, despite the proximity of 3 soft border, cheap food nations to the north, west and south is what keeps the system functioning, hand in hand with government subsidies. When people value their communities over their personal consumption, they will flourish. But the trick is in enabling people to make choices... Food poverty removes choice, just as monopolistic control removes selection.
@LCamp-cr7fs
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I agree that the trick consists of people, more specifically consumer behavior. Where and how they spend their money is important to sustain healthy farms. As important as being politically engaged in politics at all levels. It’s amazing what happens at the local level.
@sether2774
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1000s of generations of humans grew their own food up until 1950s time frame when refridgeration was invented and then food came from a grocery store that bought it from mega farms....great system but it leaves all of us vulnerable to the food supply chain
@rmutter
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As a son of grandparents who were farmers for generations, I have grown up far removed from the fields and survived the city to be raised in the suburbs. Probably because I'm a child of the 60s, I have been a backyard gardener and small game grower since I served in the Marine Corps. I worked on a large, profitable plantation in the deep south as I paid my way through college. Thus, I have some experience in the evolution of modern agriculture. This first installment of a serious series about globalization and its impacts on humanity touched me profoundly. I learned, a long time ago, that whoever controls the food supply of a population also controls the people dependent upon it. In my experience, "Corporate citizens" are not just concerned with the efficiency of food monopolies; they are driven to keep control of the power that the money amassed brings by wielding the closed distribution of an essential component of life. In essence, they are merely food instead of drug "dealers". The uber-rich are not concerned that the masses purchase nutritious foods in perpetuity; they are myopically focused on short-term assured profits to line their coffers. In contrast, MAGA people, at a minimum, understand this type of manipulation at least subconsciously, but somehow they remain duped by the sway of an elite cynical, narcissistic multi-national confidence man. Therefore people with a hinterland mindset will likely never recover the goal of independence of body, mind, and spirit that made the United States united. Pity.
@kevinholmes1048
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The problem is inevitable as long as capitalism is allowed to be our ideology. Many people have always understood this issue intuitively, the problem is the millions the billionaires spend trying to divert our attention. That's what MAGA, and all reactionary fascist movements are born from is the need for Capital to defend itself as the inevitable collapse and uprising forms from the nature of contradictions and exploitation in a capitalist system. Neo-liberals like to pretend there isn't a coherent definition of fascism, because it indicts capital, but the socialist movement has always known what it is. It consolidates power behind a strong man that serves corporate interest through the romanticizing of nationalism and cultural myths. It serves to shift the alienation and anger away from capital and corporations and onto internal and external scapegoats so they can consolidate power to "fight" the enemy and under that excuse they destroy and pillage wealth from one place or people to give it to the loyal and consolidate power. That destruction allows for a synthetic new opportunity for "growth" for the loyal to stave off the contradiction of infinite growth in a finite environment. That's why socialism and fascism are permanent and clear enemies. They are both reactions to the breakdown of capitalism at it's inevitable end. One indicts capitalism and advocates for evolving beyond commodified production owned by a few to community production owned by the workers and community. The other exists only to destroy that idea by any means and maintain control of the people through control of production and the extraction of wealth created by the workers. The problem we have in this country is they have succeeded in destroying the collective memory of our society for alternatives in socialist ideas, and completely indoctrinated every person and our media to assume capitalism as the norm and defend it without knowledge or critique. And they will kill as many of as as they need to to make sure it stays that way as they have in the past.
@annalorree
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I grew up on a small family dairy farm. A farm in my backyard? Yes, please! Not only is it VERY good to be close to food production, but animals usually make better neighbours than people do.
@williamhad
@williamhad Рік тому
No mention of Permaculture farming? Why?
@jcrockett870
@jcrockett870 Рік тому
I was wondering that also. No mention of Regenerative agriculture either.
@williamhad
@williamhad Рік тому
@New Tunes For Old Logos Mark Shepard has proven that scale works. Also, the Financial Times did a piece on the stupid vertical farming which doesn't come close to the output of New Forest Farm.
@williamhad
@williamhad Рік тому
@New Tunes For Old Logos no problem!
@williamhad
@williamhad Рік тому
@New Tunes For Old Logos in his book he outlines how he produces more calories per acre than conventional farming. He produces one tenth the output of any one crop but he's growing like 20 different crops at once.
@williamhad
@williamhad Рік тому
@New Tunes For Old Logos the book is really good, especially if you do any sort of gardening pr farming on your own. It inspired me to buy some land and plant some tree
@charleskuruvila
@charleskuruvila Рік тому
This documentary is an absolute Masterpiece. Thank you Rana Foroohar!!
@biggroup3524
@biggroup3524 Рік тому
...nice job from Joe Sinclair who Directed, Filmed & Edited this excellent programme - well done!
@squeaker19694
@squeaker19694 Рік тому
12 percent of income on food is ridiculously low. Americans don't realise how lucky they are. Also, if people paid for the value of food that's produced sustainably and grown for maximum nutrition, not maximum profit, we would all be spending way more. As an Australian farmer, it annoys me when I hear people who know nothing of growing food complain about the cost of food when it is already way too cheap. It can be hard to make a living as a farmer due to the retail monopolies setting prices for us.
@Youcanttouchmyhandle
@Youcanttouchmyhandle Рік тому
Stop selling the food to the large companies and only grow enough of certain foods to support the area you grow in. Choose of who you support with your produce Thank you for feeding our future 💖
@theuglykwan
@theuglykwan Рік тому
Exactly. People are in for a shock when oil runs out and that leads to production costs increasing. The times we live in rely heavily on hydrocarbons being unlocked. I'm in the UK, some food is ridiculously cheap.
@bigzclipz5104
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@@Youcanttouchmyhandle you think it’s that easy when it not . If a farmer sign a contract with corporate it’s usually a long term which those farmers grandfather sign . If they try to break that contract the corporation will take their land or freeze its money .
@progaholic123
@progaholic123 Рік тому
@@Youcanttouchmyhandle Did you even watch the video?
@Youcanttouchmyhandle
@Youcanttouchmyhandle Рік тому
@@bigzclipz5104 thank you for sharing this information 💐
@PushparajBundelaom
@PushparajBundelaom Рік тому
Indoor farming for large-scale food production? The energy required to artificially control the climate will nullify the gains and put stress on energy production sources. Looks like plenty has plenty of stakes in this film.
@lemonica100
@lemonica100 Рік тому
A superb and a must-see documentary explaining the gravity of food globalisation. Excellent work, well done !!!
@pacjam418
@pacjam418 Рік тому
Agree…couldn’t have said it better.
@StephenAndrew777
@StephenAndrew777 Рік тому
I say cut off the rogue nations until they're ready to play nice, as it were.
@AnhNguyen-hn9vj
@AnhNguyen-hn9vj Рік тому
look like some kind of systematic genocide of small farmers probably trying to put them into extinction. scary though.
@ttorres2586
@ttorres2586 Рік тому
Allowing foreign corporations to purchase farmland and large food processing companies in one's own country is not helping food security or small farmers start out. We've got an aging farmer problem in the US that is driven out by government policies and decisions.
@johngaller9277
@johngaller9277 Рік тому
This. Spot on.
@thezfunk
@thezfunk Рік тому
Finally! Someone who knows what the Boston Tea Party was really about.
@frustratedatheist9885
@frustratedatheist9885 Рік тому
This was interesting. I was vegetarian for 15 years and have now been wfpb vegan for the last 15 ongoing years. I appreciate that you included the land degradation and loss of biodiversity. I have over 2,000 sg ft of native perennial plants, no chemicals or fertilizers, and we mow only two times a year. I think we should do the best we can, protecting birds (lights out, window protection, limit pesticides) and other beings. Restoration should be a top priority, do as much as we can. Will we collectively work together?
@aristocraticrebel
@aristocraticrebel Рік тому
Why would people work collectively together? We don't have a homogeneous or cohesive society anymore. 60 years of leftism and neoliberalism has destroyed that.
@LtColDaddy71
@LtColDaddy71 Рік тому
I can appreciate where your at, but a pure, clean farm is an ecosystem, and ecosystems are a combination of many species of plants, animals and insects, mostly kept in tact by ruminates.
@mayap6055
@mayap6055 Рік тому
@@LtColDaddy71 but don't forget that on a truly diverse farm there is way less need for ruminants. When the soil becomes healthy from years of regenerative ag techniques, and proper care is taken not to turn over the soil, keeping cover crops all year round in the soil, using a machine to cute the crops, using worms to increase the biodiversity of the soil, you don't need so many ruminants as we have today.
@LtColDaddy71
@LtColDaddy71 Рік тому
@@mayap6055 mechanically terminating / mowing when you can have animals do it for you, and fertilize by upping the value of the green manure in their rumens doesn’t seem right to me. One thing we need is diversity of ruminants. Super heavies in very small numbers, and many many lightweights that will marble up better on grass. Close the feedlots, keep them on grass. Also, why is the US rejecting sheep / lamb. Goat, it’s really good as well.
@Albopepper
@Albopepper Рік тому
@@LtColDaddy71 Ruminants have nothing to do with the 'definition' of a clean farm or an ecosystem for that matter. That's just your own personal opinion, but it is not inherently true. Not by a long shot. Although such animals might serve a measure of usefulness, they are not intrinsic to a productive, sustainable food production system.
@sether2774
@sether2774 Рік тому
Freedom only exists if YOU control your food/water/energy... 1. Stock up on food now, 2. Plant a food forest on your property, 3. install water catchment system, 4. install solar generator, 5. arm yourself to protect yourself and family
@travelinghearttattoos5482
@travelinghearttattoos5482 Рік тому
Absolutely amazing film I’m a farmers daughter from the Uk I love these American farmers they need our support, we need to produce local and support each other locally, it saves on the environment, nutrients and community. And brings back community I love you guys
@danielgarrahan9050
@danielgarrahan9050 Рік тому
A fascinating film.
@mariacheebandidos7183
@mariacheebandidos7183 Рік тому
it can be really perplexing when people sound so confident talking about something they clearly don't fully understand.
@sether2774
@sether2774 Рік тому
Your 1/2 yard can produce enough food for 5-6 people for the whole year....plant fruit trees, berry bushes, strawberries, grape vines, asparagus, etc.......YOU can do it. turn your YARD into a FOOD FOREST
@chrisjones4758
@chrisjones4758 Рік тому
Exceptionally well-produced, and even if you foresaw this predicament, thought provoking
@martinsriggs2441
@martinsriggs2441 Рік тому
When I see good videos like this I usually take my time to appreciate the experts who make these videos possible, it's not easy to help a lot of people make money
@martinsriggs2441
@martinsriggs2441 Рік тому
I would blame myself if I heard of an opportunity like this and let it go to waste, please am interested how can I do business with him
@basilrichards4205
@basilrichards4205 Рік тому
Excellent program
@Confucius_Says...
@Confucius_Says... Рік тому
This documentary is an absolute masterpiece‼️Job well done, FT👍
@thomashull7669
@thomashull7669 Рік тому
this video and many others like it are proof that we are seeing the beginning of shift in consciousness around how we produce and consume food. No doubt, It'll be the greatest revolution and innovation of our time
@papla2019
@papla2019 Рік тому
Thank you so much for creating these wonderful programs! I would definitely share them with my friends and family 🙏😇
@ligbzd837
@ligbzd837 Рік тому
Food should not be exported for profit; it should be sold domestically & locally first, and the "leftovers" or "extras" to be sold overseas or to whoever needs them...
@pacjam418
@pacjam418 Рік тому
Agree
@doreenaitken5308
@doreenaitken5308 Рік тому
Ha right. We grow vegetables here in florida but pay the same price like someone in canada. 🤷🏻‍♀️ What gives? World trade agreements?
@gregorymalchuk272
@gregorymalchuk272 Рік тому
So, cause mass starvation in the developing world?
@ligbzd837
@ligbzd837 Рік тому
@@gregorymalchuk272 We don't cause starvation in other places, they cause their own due to bad farming methods or over grazing. We have been helping people around the world by giving them food. But To really help fix their problem is to help them farm, and regenerate their forest and irrigation systems. This is the real fix. So later, they provide their own food by farming on their own land.
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There should have been more emphasis on urban farming, backyard farms, and less on these high-tech solutions. Can a plant which has never grown in soil and never felt the sun, be really healthy? We need to look at the question of plant vitality. I am sure that factory plants cannot have the same vitality as plants raised in soil with incredible micro- and macro-biodiversity . To compare the factory plants with Central Valley as the only comparison is too simplistic in light of the enormous impulse for home gardening/homesteading which ias happening at this time.
@jeremybyington
@jeremybyington Рік тому
There is definitely more potential for an immediate return on investment by utilizing all of the places a grass monoculture is considered mandatory and turning them into food-producing spaces.
@avonmore9561
@avonmore9561 Рік тому
Farmers have the best place to raise a family. Nice statement and we need population growth. The Hydroponics segment identified the Labour / Land / Capital mix as it is, has priced Land out of the formula leading to Capital Intensive farming. I have two points from this. First, Land is not properly priced to facilitate a healthy society. The second is that I feel the produce grown from healthy land is "Better" then something grown in a controlled environment. The DARPA lady talks about playing with plants using science. How would one swap the Nitrogen bacteria from Legumes to other plants? Ya, science can do almost anything these days; however, same with my second point on hydroponics, I'd like to see the soil bacteria and fungal network do their work. Studying how these symbiotic relationships work is fantastic but man taking control of this thinking they understand all the nuances is a bit arrogant. What I'm not seeing in this episode but hope the follow up episodes covers is the movement for smaller family farms. Permaculture and a number of techniques within its envelope is not covered. The movement of people away from the Cities into the wilderness to "Homestead" not addressed. Corporations and the wealthy have managed to create multiple monopolies, facilitating different needs of our lives. In turn, they have created laws to obstruct others from entering or disrupting them. The undertone within this episode starts to peal back some layers and I thank you for providing this aspect within this episode.
@jcrockett870
@jcrockett870 Рік тому
It is possible that some of these points of yours will be addressed in the remaining episodes. I hope. BTW, your last point is true in nearly all aspect of business, not just agriculture.
@bringdabeat
@bringdabeat Рік тому
Great to see a doc on this topic from a more mainstream perspective, but I think you guys really missed an opportunity here to showcase the potential of small-scale regenerative agriculture. Go to a permaculture farm and show the absolute abundance we can share with the land!
@Youcanttouchmyhandle
@Youcanttouchmyhandle Рік тому
Thank you Financial Times for taking the time to help 💐
@AlleyCat-1
@AlleyCat-1 Рік тому
I don't see how the monopoly won't still be an issue or gmo won't be. You do realize that we don't have to modify crops to turn into a self fertilizing plant when we already have that with companion planting & cover crops, etc. This was a very interesting video & I look forward to the other's.
@mannurse7421
@mannurse7421 Рік тому
The reason they didn’t mention Joel Salatin and they like is because he wants less regulation not more.
@zacharydavis4398
@zacharydavis4398 Рік тому
Thank you for spending the time to create and share this content awareness 🙏🏾
@alastairmackenzie639
@alastairmackenzie639 Рік тому
Check out the work of Richard Perkins in Sweden- small scale but profitable models of regenerative agriculture
@ecosymbiont7571
@ecosymbiont7571 Рік тому
kudos! i totally support Joe policy. although large commercial poultry company do make sense too but small farmer should be given equal competitive environment to thrive.
@AmedeeBoulette
@AmedeeBoulette Рік тому
Extraordinary content….
@riteshmsurana8964
@riteshmsurana8964 Рік тому
A truly great presentation of exposing the hidden truth of our modern economic world, how we may head back to monarchy like situations once again in the cover of democracy . very much correct vision of our future is portrayed...deglobalise at least in our food supply chains....
@pablitoraymondo
@pablitoraymondo Рік тому
Excellent at explaining the problems, what a shame you missed the solutions. Regenerative agriculture and permaculture offer so much more than these gizmo-driven, high tech propositions. The history of agriculture shows that the more we fight with nature, the more problems we create. There is a movement that is tackling these problems in ways that are good for both humans and the planet - but the companies in this film ain't it.
@juandelacruz1520
@juandelacruz1520 Рік тому
My late father is small time farmer it's extremely hard work and very little money in it,,.. most urban dwellers don't even think farmers exist... what they usually knew that if you want food you can order it or go to the market...
@MonsterMacLLC
@MonsterMacLLC Рік тому
I wish they made the farms vertical and keep the housing horizontal with all the earthquakes, floods, and other global warming related events.
@Rosajenna66
@Rosajenna66 Рік тому
Wow this is such good news, the Financial Times behind this amazing video, the world will change when the people sitting on the pension funds and the billions of billions understand this and put their money to support a new economic and food system! Congrats to whoever proposed this inside FT! Bravo, and cheers from Argentina😍
@lardyman2
@lardyman2 Рік тому
Anyone interested in this should read/listen to "The Omnivor's Dilema".
@raphaelmandona8173
@raphaelmandona8173 Рік тому
This documentary is very enlightening. This is what my ears long for.
@qwerasdfjkl1990
@qwerasdfjkl1990 Рік тому
I like Molly Jahn's idea of GMO. Select genes that makes plants disease/pest resistant in order to reduce or don't use pesticides while also improving the land. This is what GMO should be not how Monsanto does it.
@fierymaple
@fierymaple Рік тому
Wow! I haven't read your paper in years. I have to say I never expected this kind of film from you...very happy to see you pushing the truth. Thank you!
@mannurse7421
@mannurse7421 Рік тому
Regulation is how they concentrate power, regulation is why they are monopolies, regulation is what is keeping the little guy down. Wolves in sheeps clothing offer regulations as protection. Those regulations will be written by the monopolies and promised by the politicians as tools to protect little guys from monopolies.
@skyjelly9790
@skyjelly9790 Рік тому
Finally someone points it out.
@virgentina4757
@virgentina4757 Рік тому
Wow I love farm amazing and fantastic IAM thankful about that thanks GOD bless Us
@laurentdrozin812
@laurentdrozin812 Рік тому
How comes these people consistently vote in politicians who are all about deregulation and small government, which automatically leaves the field open for big corporations?
@hasanchoudhury5401
@hasanchoudhury5401 Рік тому
Stay on the subject. Small family farms are endangered. But there is hope. They are better than the corporations in many way.
@leswallace2426
@leswallace2426 Рік тому
Would have been fantastic to have heard of some mention of combating food waste - fixing a big hole in the bucket - feeding unavoidable food waste to pigs would also help. Excellent video, really impressed with FT documentaries.
@normanmusimwa2058
@normanmusimwa2058 Рік тому
You have earned my subscription . Brilliant documentary .
@hhwippedcream
@hhwippedcream Рік тому
Thanks much for the excellent reporting!
@meilinchan7314
@meilinchan7314 Рік тому
This is not de-globalisation - it is simply a revision of what globalisation and how it operates.
@jhoodfysh
@jhoodfysh Рік тому
Another excellent Financial Times production. Very enlightening.
@irenesorina3934
@irenesorina3934 Рік тому
Thanks FT for this documentary.
@jorgearenillas4
@jorgearenillas4 Рік тому
I think that it is great that more and more people are awakening, and realizing that we need to rethink our food system. About the way to do it, seems to me that the solutions proposed in this video, Vertical farms, and GMOs, keep the same problem. Control and profit in the hands of a few and lack of resilience. I've been researching about this for a few years and, in my opinion, permaculture can be a better solution. Thanks for the video. All the best.
@tiffinimorgan1867
@tiffinimorgan1867 Рік тому
I wish everyone could see this.
@muruganemurugane527
@muruganemurugane527 Рік тому
Good Knowledge
@sether2774
@sether2774 Рік тому
1 acre of land can produce up to 50,000 lbs of food. Humans eating 3 lbs of food a day would need 1,000 lbs per year per person...America could quickly work as a nation to get back to self reliance by planting fruit trees and many other kinds of FOOD producing plants.
@irenesorina3934
@irenesorina3934 Рік тому
Thanks for a new knowledge of farming.
@franklumpuy7477
@franklumpuy7477 Рік тому
Great content we need more of it
@Dadniel1st
@Dadniel1st Рік тому
Superb work!
@efaoncobbgmailcom
@efaoncobbgmailcom Рік тому
This is outstanding. Very insightful and the focus should be on people not corporate profits.
@markwalshopoulos
@markwalshopoulos Рік тому
America taking about globalisation killing agriculture is a bit rich considering how isolated it is from the rest of the world through tariffs and non tariff barriers, especially subsidies, which the Americans use as if they're going out of style
@QuiChiYang2
@QuiChiYang2 Рік тому
Farmers who grow real organic food for us to eat are true treasures. Corporate modern industrialized farmers are poison lots. They are dying out because we know who they are now, And will avoid them like the plague.
@ethimself5064
@ethimself5064 Рік тому
Pay attention to the company Smithfield. They are Chinese owned(CPP) and control a great deal of the Hog Industry in the US. And they play dirty with their Hog Suppliers. If I remember right there is a Great DOC in this tube produced by a PBS Station. I hope that Regenerative Farming is mentioned in this vid. Whatever happed to - We The People?
@higherintellect
@higherintellect Рік тому
“We the people” are divided and conquered
@ethimself5064
@ethimself5064 Рік тому
@@higherintellect Not yet👍
@harrykersey5151
@harrykersey5151 Рік тому
We can feed our own communities the key words are " WE " and " Can " encourage and support your local growers ! Look for ways to give them the resources and supplies they need .
@ricknelson3607
@ricknelson3607 Рік тому
More government is not the answer it is the problem. Big government and big corporations have combined to create this problem. Grow food local and encourage the local sources for protein and vegetables. My wife and I started a Farmers Market and a community garden. We are doing our share to change the system.
@MRSketch09
@MRSketch09 Рік тому
Awesome video. Thanks for doing it. Really interesting & good editing. I kind of came away thinking it should have been slightly longer.
@CM-sy3to
@CM-sy3to Рік тому
The big farms got big because of government regulations. It was BIG GOVERNMENT under Nixon who created mega farms under farm policy that regulated the small farmers out of business. They had the option of selling out or having to invest in "safety" measures like bulk milk tanks for dairy farmers that would take a decade of work to pay for.
@izlandsisterztv8792
@izlandsisterztv8792 Рік тому
Control your food, you control your destiny 😊
@mrinalpatra3980
@mrinalpatra3980 Рік тому
I am not all impressed. I think these lab based approaches were causes of problems and we are following similar approaches to fix them. We think we understand science better than nature, but we mostly apply single dimensional approach where as nature works in multidimensional way. Yes biological based farming is the ultimate thing but do not try to produce biologies in the labs. Let nature do that based on the need of each ecosystem. Our job should be to understand natural ways as much as possible so that we refrain from throwing spanner in nature's spinning wheel. Remember there no one microbe capable of producing miracle, it is a diverse set of numerous micro-organisms that help produce quality stuff. Natural stuffs are proven, do not replace them with lab based products.
@daviddoink872
@daviddoink872 Рік тому
The current system has got us to mono crops and chemicals. It would be much better for people to eat local and seasonal and worry so much about the blemishes.
@jaideep2805
@jaideep2805 Рік тому
Rana - this was a really well made film. Really enjoyed it and hope that you continue to make such films and start to bring out some real issues that are causing the structiral issues within our economy. So thanks again! P.S. - Just borrowed your book Homecoming to read alongside as I watch this 3 part series.
@ThatBritishHomestead
@ThatBritishHomestead Рік тому
I feel that I have just fallen in love with the idea of farming... im not sure How i would feel about it in practice. We have 2 alloments and a few birds and i love it, farming on a big scale is a game changer!
@HairyKnees1
@HairyKnees1 Рік тому
Very interesting video, much of this I was already aware of. What I am doing is on a small scale. I have filled my personal home’s backyard with fruit trees, berry bushes, and a large veggie garden (and a compost area). I may also add a chicken coop soon since it’s allowed. My vacation rental has a greenhouse that I’m converting to an educational experience about gardening and home food production so guests can learn if they want to. I’ve also got indoor hydroponic gardening systems (one expensive pretty one and one,rather ugly, cheap DIY version).
@johnransom1146
@johnransom1146 Рік тому
Food forests in every yard and park. Seeds and soil inputs tax free. Subsidies for local food production and distribution. Plant and seed swaps. Free municipal compost delivered to local depots. Collected paper and cardboard made available for lasagna or no dig gardening. In general attack the problem with policy at the local level.
@rohnamegatcher8685
@rohnamegatcher8685 Рік тому
Your tech indoor farmer is wrong. Does he realize how extractive mining and toxic metals were mind and land in Africa was permanently damaged and destroyed for his experiment? Simple local land farming will never be replaced. Land stewardship is a career of the future. Other countries are not ignorant. Warehouse farming is in for a rude surprise when India no longer wants to support western extraction.
@derekwhittom1639
@derekwhittom1639 Рік тому
At 23:02 the video shows an intersection, and I thought it looked familiar. I was just there today, lol. Macon, the City of Maples!
@luisalfredobecerra9600
@luisalfredobecerra9600 Рік тому
Very good documentary l Will see It again, l wish the Best for these people that want a big country, l am from Venezuela
@jeremybyington
@jeremybyington Рік тому
The federal government needs to promote home gardening somehow. I think tax credits/tax-free garden-related purchases would be a good start and also passing laws that allow people to have non-monoculture (grass) yards despite local government or HOA regulations.
@ipredictariot6371
@ipredictariot6371 Рік тому
You can't blame big corporations, per se, for a proportion of the market not adequately demanding and eating their veggies!
@irenesorina3934
@irenesorina3934 Рік тому
Then US have to dismantle WTO. Removed to much restrictions on our local farmers who are the main suppliers of our food system, removed corporate lobbying.
@crystalwebb5725
@crystalwebb5725 Рік тому
85% of the population lives in cities. Fed by mass agriculture with health conditions running rampant. Imagine what diversity of food could offer for health alone. Local food is the key. Consumers have the power.
@denisesspapetite9507
@denisesspapetite9507 Рік тому
These videos are the first thing that I have seen since the 2016 election…….that is giving me hope that it was all for something and that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
@mdw131
@mdw131 Рік тому
Brilliant! Hope to see more like this!
@TireSpare
@TireSpare Рік тому
OKay i am motivated about the fact that vertical farming factory can be a game changer in typical agriculture in the world.
@sunalwaysshinesonTVs
@sunalwaysshinesonTVs Рік тому
Okay... wait. Look at how output has tripled/inputs-stagnet is called magical thinking. It's what underlies the whole profit/production mindset of free markets. The problem with food, ergo farming, is that it's treated as a commodity rather than a necessity... much like the planet, especially its people and all living creatures. It's not farming that needs reinventing. It's the whole economic system.
@marvinfalk5959
@marvinfalk5959 Рік тому
Having worked a decade as a north american trucker, and a decade as an industrial scale farm laborer, allow me to ask the obvious question. Next time you drive across a major metropolis, Toronto, New York, LA, fill in the blank, ask yourself which purchases in your life are fulfilled by mom and pop supply chains. Cutesy free range chickens aside, why would your food supply be any different? Yes, there may come a time when we all have miniature fusion reactors in our backyards powering food computers in our homes making us nutritionally self-sufficient. We'll no longer need our flying cars to get to the supermarket. Maybe then we will have the luxury of 'thinking about people'.
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