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tv   Feeding The Billions  Al Jazeera  June 12, 2019 6:32am-7:01am +03

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it's where every. sustainable food production is one of the greatest challenges for the future. with global demand for food set to increase by nearly 70 percent by 2050. aquaculture is one of the most polluting and ecologically damaging industries. if we want to keep food. on the table without continuing to ravage our natural
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environments. we need to completely rethink how often industries work. and russell beard in finland where one restaurant is championing a hyper local circular economy to create a revolutionary approach to dining and ask any scientist come batting jellyfish blooms by taking them out of the sea and on top. in developed countries like finland it's hard to imagine that we're in the thick of a global food crisis. these helsinki shelves are stacked to the hilt with a wide variety of tasty treat bare salami. the worst a true cost of all this choice to our increasingly beleaguered planet reindeer spring roll. a global food system is incredibly wasteful we use huge amounts of energy water and land to grow food and fly thousands of miles around the world only
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for much of it remaining money it's an incredibly inefficient and imbalanced operation. of a post i don't know if my pronunciation is correct but what i. call vocal state ok so you can have anything around to see if you can get some statistics about the amount of food that is wasted so if you imagine this pool of bread is total food produced in the world the last 10 percent during cultivation 7 percent is lost after the harvest 12 percent which is lost during processing or point of sale and another level percent is lost after it's been purchased by means in total over a 3rd of the food we produce why it is wasted just thrown away and us something shocking to. a growing movement of pioneers are taking steps to fix this global problem. this is ultimately a 5 star. restaurant aims to be the model of sustainability all the ingredients are
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local and all the process is designed to do as little damage to the planet as possible eliminating all the polluting effects of industrial agriculture is the brainchild of chef henry allen for the uninitiated explain a little bit but what ultimately. it all started when me and my colleague. were taking the bins out and we were thinking like how can i mean we make this month's waste could we do with the things better for the environment for the costumer that is our biggest vision one way to do that is by going hyper local in other words. right here in the restaurant i've seen before but never in a restaurant have to say this is great the main thing about this system it. circulates. here the plant. the water all it from the roots ok
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it's $95.00 less water than conventional farming and the best thing for me in this idea is that we can cut the fresh herbs just before the service of every day there is minimal waste. it's very sweet and from the seed to fully grown in this system one week totally organic. fertilizer nothing. is based on the principles of circular economics where waste is seen as a resource this approach minimises the need for transport water and energy and even farms lifestyle on site edible carbon neutral crickets. yes you know the idea. in baltimore serve up over $1000.00 crickets each week in their 5 stone. dishes cricket luvvie growing into fully grown adults within 2 months. this
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is the bigger home hello yes pickett's so can you give us a sense of how the little critter. fit in this notion of a circular economy we can use all the stems of the salads or the peels of the cucumber if we feed them one week with basal leaves they will taste more basal and that's where we don't have to throw away thing away. almost any. mission is fundamentally about changing our attitude to the food to eat and preparing us for a future where meats like beef may not be so readily available. 100 gram of crickets. 22 grams of sure a protein. say 99 percent less water and rolling beef. sold their carbon footprint is it's like nothing henry's also trialing
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a protein rich. the idea is a so innovative being seen as the future of food production on this world and beyond this is cost of this is also the $1.00 thing that. is interesting about nasa the space agency yeah well you know this it's a potato space and protect. us called air upon it so if the growth in the air oh yeah now that is something you don't see every day if it is wet yes. they still keep noice yes but this way you don't really need any soil the benefits about this is it can produce 10 times more potatoes than a traditional way so this is this is for real for you guys this is not just a kind of a marketing stunt we don't have to be millionaires we just need to you know roll things forward make people think. we're talking about. certification
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climate change. stuff. and. later on henry's invitation ready. the 1st to travel just want to down the road to see if these principles of circular economics can work on a much larger industrial scale. away but. this. is exactly. breaks. here. actor turned farmer robert jordan also has a vertical farm but this one is on another level. who moves a jacket it's a different season in say disney. like herb safari would we go means vassal again some coriander i need to speak to you to have kind of
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a glass that's just weird so this is entirely electric yes there's no no sunlight used to hold the wire meant a more efficient growth. of all your yield isn't much waste from an operation like this we grow in a you know biodegradable pulp so we have no plastics inside the growth area anymore everything is biodegradable. goal is to prove that these hyper sustainable take needs could one day be rolled out in every city and town in the world transporting . these to leave these peat and just around the world it's not that clever it should always be produced locally and consumed locally i love that rather than taking the food to the plate it taking the farm to get it to the cause of the group posted a layoff again. you can see that they're constantly working on improving the efficiency
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of the whole operation even this isn't truly waste because it's going to get composting been used on the farms that say they're reconceptualizing the concept of waste. my way back to ultimately henry's asked me to pick up some supplies for tonight's dinner service 1st 150 come to the right place right time. are you doing what you do you know you were growing mushrooms we're growing oyster mushrooms on coffee west finish people are crazy about mushrooms and they drink a lot of coffee and i've seen just back that that is an absolute perfect specimen these are ready to harvest there will be harvested today actually we don't want to hold you up we love to get the. team clicks use coffee grounds from businesses right. the grounds provide. need to explode into light. that is amazing and you can just grab the whole cluster and then twist it until it
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comes off there you go. that's eating it up. we have a consumer product are we call it the health sandy grow kit and basically you see it's the same as we have in our farm but this is so that people can grow it at home if you're a normal coffee drinker you can you can make do with your own coffee grounds i can imagine being quite magical to watch these incredible kind of peaches emerge and yet here in finland there is now quite active community of home growers encouraging consumers to grow food at home the kind of strategy that will reduce our dependence on industrial agriculture. team officials 3000 of the kids and even run workshops to teach people how to grow fantastic funky. alright so we've done.
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mushrooms back to the restaurant going to cook them up. so what's the hand ready to go i already. told i'm going to take the crickets. oh my god what are your. dreams and hopes which are good over there because the crickets are going up there and the mushrooms which are but. so it's very local it's about as low as i can get you know. i mean the fish at one of these little guys yeah. right in case a prickly little legs if i tell you what. i think it's. a really nice protein critic yeah yeah it really is thank you thank you so much is this a share that you can use these ideas can go mainstream just what they want whether
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it's you know the circular economy or the hyper local production or just the general transparency of the operation could start to see a group like pieces in that is feeding the world and reduce. but i don't like taps into. the world's growing demand for food is pushing ever increasing pressure i'm not sure as it was this. huge waste campaign as believe our environment may be close to breaking point food is the single biggest impact that humans have on nature we all deforesting the earth to grow more food is by far the biggest user freshwater the single biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions and the biggest reason why we're in the middle of the mass species extinction event the 6th the planet earth has faced at least a 3rd of the world's food is currently being wasted we're talking about ugly fruit and vegetables on farms being waste because they don't comply with cosmetic
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standards we're talking about huge heaving shopping oils the food which is just going to end up in the supermarket bins and the reason why. is because the supermarkets know that's what triggers all response of taking and filling up basket even though week after week on average people are wasting 20 percent of the groceries that they're buying in those stores it's a system with entrenched waste within it we do have the power as individuals to waste less shift away from most ecologically destructive practices should give us hope that we can flick this enormous problem into one of the most delicious tools to tackle compartment. with over 7500 kilometers of coastline italy has relied on the bounty of the sea
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for thousands. is hidden beneath this is. an environmental catastrophe maybe and away. i'm very new and i finish effen food right from name. 30 years. italian cuisine is one of my passions so when i heard it's these fishing waters were under threat i just had to investigate and here in southern mississippi where italians are facing a rather stinging problem. jellyfish numbers are up by 400 percent in the last 13 years alone with the tentacle terrace swamping the coastline and damaging the delicate marine ecosystem. but sometimes one problem can solve another. i've come to lead change to find out how jellyfish could help alleviate the impending food crisis becoming an ingredient in the italian kitchen. first though i've met up with marine pilot just took to stefano priorly who is
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researching the rise in jellyfish numbers there is scientific evidence that there are some increases as particularly in cost solaria subject to anthropogenic impact human impacts on the cause may produce an announcement of the frequency and the bonus of charlie fish. dr stefanos research suggests jelly fish numbers are booming due to a variety of manmade fact. artificial waterways the suez canal which connects the red sea to the mediterranean transporting new jellyfish species. changes enabling these newcomers to survive with some the sea temperatures in the mad rising by 1.15 degrees c. in the last 3 decades. how bad is the problems there ecological impact of jellyfish is equivalent to lions in this are now they are top predators so they can have an
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impact on the functioning of the marine ecosystem some cases so we have large elif ish wish to reach dance it is life up to 300 or 400 tons a square cube. meters along the coastline so this would affect particularly human activities for life. swimming along the coast or fishery and even aquaculture plants may be affected because in some cases the venomous china fish can kill hundreds or thousands of fish in a few days these booms are using local fishing industries is estimated that in the north rarity they cost italian fishing fleet $8500000.00 euros a year steffen and sent me north to the aquarium of genoa to discover how the creek to its unique reproductive process is really compounding the problem babies found when live here the view there may be literally fish. curator soviet lover are no is breeding thousands of jellyfish. this little she doesn't know about these potent
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causing creatures. why are the jellyfish so efficient reproducing they are doing that relieve a huge a quantity of sperm and egg they fairfield live in this that we have plenty of love all this can go on the bottom of this thing he said on the bottom and became a 4 leaf each fall if they're relieved after visual not a very big number of jellyfish live in the room or that their fans saying they feel . jellyfish a so prolific appraising to single adult can lead up 245000 eggs a day these ancient invertebrates existed since before the dinosaurs and they inhabit every ocean and. jellyfish swarms that decimated ari salmon fisheries and head the tourist industry are frustrated but one beach saw 13000 bathers get
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stung in a single week. back in net i've heard that a research project is close to a breakthrough it's called go jelly. this is our love. the internet and her colleagues aim to show food scene to. the jellyfish are a safe plentiful food source. but serving poisonous jellyfish makes me a little nervous or they all safety it's not you know we're with the starving it just feels this because it just is this a different docs a compound so each jellyfish you will measure yes we measure the way after the frog and the liquid the need to adjourn in order to extract different venoms there is a jellyfish that could be left out for your man and jellyfish that are released say to enter netherlands research shows that most mediterranean jellyfish are perfectly
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safe to eat with just a small number needing toxins removed through freezing or simply by washing it's giving me hope that this could be a genuine food for the future but if it has the challenges that you face in the year of jellyfish is considered nice and. this could be changed if for starve them a stray that they are very powerful or a source of food could be important for local fisherman local restaurants or for local economy and. if jelly fish meat goes mainstream here it could help rebalance marine ecosystems and read it in motions of this gelatinous minutes. and with 80 percent protein and just 5 percent fat it could also become a highly prized alternative to me. farming knife stock is
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responsible for 2 food 10.5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. easing jellyfish as a substitute. could help reduce the very global warming that causes the blooms. already popular in much of the far east. but right now they can't legally be sold as food anywhere in europe. so antebellum has provided some jelly fish and sent me to go chinese collaborating sharing fabriano viva. please can we cook with bass ok now call the idea as a idea yeah yeah. this is 2 different spaces of jellyfish this brawl is preferred to a row old not about there's only cold treat the most tender
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jelly fish and aims to cook it slowly but 1st we wash it in an ice bath facing the head instead to ensure it doesn't lose the taste of the sea for piano avoids all seasoning no salt no pepper only ok so looking this movie that is in the water about why did you decide to work with go jelly radio of a big picture going all 5 percent leg exactly every night here oh yeah. when the jenny fish comes out of the suvi it's finished off in the oven the piano has the vision for the future and for me that is truly truly exciting fusing traditional italian cooking with striking martin ingredients for beyond all plans to serve the jellyfish with spears of campari gin and parsley on a bed of italian leaves we have a days it looks like it's you. it's time for me to taste for pianos creation on the
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go jenny team has joined us to see the results for themselves. it truly magnificent. i love it i don't like it i love it still it's just it really is jelly fish is delicious with a very light seafood taste and the texture. but if jellyfish ok to make it on to dinner plates across the world the public would have to fall in love with it which i had tried to. do you can find the some of the things that people are looking now so not low calorie snack and also a good taste as so you have all the ingredients are for the food to be appreciated the basic cost. i feel
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privileged to try telling fish this has given me a taste of what the future might hold if we all get on board and find this new food then we might have a chance of progressing the damage we have time to our. food pioneers around the world a planning the diets of the future. globally over a quarter of ice free land is used for grazing animals. causing enormous habitat damage. as a californian company may have a solution. the impossible. a soit based meat substitutes that looks and tastes just like the real thing. meanwhile in israel scientists the farming mediterranean fruit flies as
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a source of protein. using 99 percent less land and emitting just $170.00 of the greenhouse gases generated when raising regular life starts. and in you see . and. produces a making insects more palatable to western tastes by coating them in chocolate it's . time is running out to halt the food industries environmental destruction the challenge for us all is wherever possible to eat with the planet in mind and to choose our menus wisely to help prevent the decline of a natural. bhosle is in cameroons with is. in st. plastic everywhere.
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