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

By 2050 there will be 9 billion people on the planet - but will there be enough food for everyone? Food security expert Dr Evan Fraser guides you through a whiteboard presentation of his solution to the Global Food Crisis.

[victorremypedersen]

How many people watched this bc of their teachers

[Abinyan]

my teacher told me to watch this, so i did

[SIJIPAREKATTIL]

I am from India .Here we have surplus food and we are exporting yet some people are starving.
A very good strategy
 1. Local production and distribution (locally grown for local) is good in terms of cost, time, nutrition etc.
2.  Energy intensive food processing and storage techniques have to be replaced with traditional methods
3. Developing agricultural technologies for small farmers
4. Strict measures against the wastage of food

[jackchampion]

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.

[brigetteannelucero]

Watching this under COVID19 quarantine. Wishing things will improve again sooner.

[patporter]

With better use of our spaces we can produce more food. Change our priority for having gardening plots before having parking spots

[darthheyzues]

As someone who has been engaged in local food production since 2007 I can say unequivocally the greatest hurdle we face in the developed world is banking and financial institutions. Small scale agriculture is not, as of yet, a highly profitable enterprise, but it requires a great expense in time and labor. How can those of us who are interested in producing food locally do so when Land prices are to high to afford outright ownership of and profit margins are too low to support mortgage payments. The market gardens and small farms go to be replaced with vacation homes. This has been my experience. Legislation and Law move to slowly and are written without the interests of the individual or planet in mind.

[talzO]

I wish I could draw like that, its amazing

[allanseah]

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

[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.

[shailpateder]

i had to write notes faster than i ever have to keep up with this video lol

[wanderllusters]

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

[DavidPoa]

Please do more on this topic please I found it super interesting I am a 14 year old boy whose dreams are one day to stop world poverty.

[douglaswallace]

thank you for NOT demonizing my cheese burger

[ClimvisDe]

Great idea to illustrate how to feed 9 billion people!

[FeedingBillion]

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

[beckytonio]

This is such a great video... what can we do? As an individual family.. I showed this to my kids and it inspires us to action- but what is something tangible that we can do? We do very simple actions like riding our bikes instead of driving, eating mainly vegetarian, growing our own garden- but this isn't helping the people in need... Please share what "regular people" can do to help change the trend... We wish we could contribute something but feel helpless.

[AfiffJatmikoo]

Beautiful video and easy-to-understand solutions

[WLFDubai]

support local farmers and stop food speculations