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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 so. if we want to keep food on the table without continuing to ravage our natural environments. we need to completely rethink how all through to industries work.
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i'm russell beard in finland where one restaurant is championing a hyper local circular economy to create a revolutionary approach to dining a master for in the end it's the scientists are contacting jellyfish blooms by taking them out of the sea and on top plate. in developed countries like finland is 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 a hair salon me. the worst a true cost of all is choice to our increasingly. the beleaguered planet reindeer spring roll. a global food system is incredibly wasteful to 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 to remain and money to this incredibly inefficient and balanced operation. of our post i don't know if my pronunciation is correct but what i. call vocal style 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 i know their level percent is lost after it's been purchased i mean in total over a 3rd of the food the jews worldwide is wasted just thrown away and i guess that's something shocking to me. 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 are 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 can you explain a little bit about what ultimate is and why why you set it up it's all started when me and my colleagues. were taking the bins out and we were thinking like how can i mean we make this month's waste how could we do the things better for the environment for the customer that is our biggest ambition one way to do that is by going hyper local in other words. right here in the restaurant i've seen a. but so far before i would never in a restaurant have to say this is great the main thing about the system is hydroponic circulates from up here the plant takes always the water all it from the
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roots ok it's 95 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 no person decides fertilizer nothing. is based on the principles of circular economics where waste is seen as a resource this approach minimizes the need for transport water and energy and even forms lifestyle on slate edible carbon neutral crickets. yes you know the idea of life in baltimore serve up over 1000 crickets each week in their 5 star dishes with cricket larvae growing into fully grown adults within 2 months.
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this is the bigger home. yes. so can you give us a sense of how. 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 way 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. so 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 this space agency yeah well you know this it's a potato space st. louis caldera point so the growth in the air oh yeah that is something you don't see every day is it is wet yes. they still can't moist yes but this way you don't really need any soil the benefits about this is. 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. later on henry's invitation 'd. 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. it's. exactly. breaks. here. actor turned farmer robert jordan also has a vertical farm but this one is another level. group jackets it's a different season in say disney. like herb safari we go means possible again some coriander i did speak 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 is a much waste from an operation like this we grow enough you know biodegradable so we have no plastics inside the growth area anymore everything is biodegradable. robots goal is to prove that these hyper sustainable take needs could one day be 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 put up the proposed today if you want to get. you can see that they're constantly working on improving the efficiency of the whole operation even
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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 and the 1st 150 come to the right place this 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 junk back there 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. cross hill sinking 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 you go. that's enough to eat. we have consumer product are we call it the healthy any 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 run workshops to teach people how to grow fantastic funky. alright so we've done. mushrooms back their restaurant going to cook a lot. so what's the hand ready to go by ready.
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i'm going to take the crickets. oh my god what are you. salad greens and have to switch over there because the crickets are going up there and the mushrooms which are really. very local it's about. can get you know. you know fish at one of these the ok yeah. i can case a prickly little legs if i tell you what. i think. it's really nice protein critic yeah yeah really thank you say that you're so much as you say sure you can use these ideas can go mainstream just what they want whether it's you know the circular economy or the hyper local production or just the general transparency of
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the operation could start to see it grow by species and that is feeding the world and reducing our environmental impact absent. 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 environments may be close to breaking point food is the single biggest impact that humans have on that we all do to grow more food is by far the biggest user 1st water 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 planet 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 wasted because they don't comply with cosmetic standards we're talking about huge heaving shopping oils the food which is just
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going to end up in the supermarket bins and the reason why. is because the supermarkets know what triggers our response of taking and filling up 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 why. within it we do have the power as individuals to waste less sift away from the most ecologically destructive parts to give us hope that we can flick this enormous problem into one of the most delicious tools to tackle compartmental melt. with over 7500 kilometers of coastline italy has relied on the bounty of the sea for thousands of years. but hidden beneath this is your waters an environmental
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catastrophe may be underway. i'm a super furry neo and i finish effen food writer for nearly 30 years. italian cuisine is one of my passions so when i heard it's nice fishing morse's were under threat i just had to investigate and here in 7 s. they were 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 priority who is
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researching the rise in jellyfish numbers there is scientific evidence that there are some increases yes but they call in cause the lhari are subject to anthropogenic into human impacts on the cause by previews and announcement of the frequency and their blinders on chalis fish. dr stefanos research suggests jellyfish numbers are booming due to for. of manmade fact. artificial the suez canal which connects the red sea to the mediterranean transporting new jersey through speech. changes enabling these newcomers to survive with some the sea temperatures in the matter rising by 1.15 degrees c. in the last 3 decades. how bad is the problems there ecological impact of jellyfish is equivalent to 2 miles from this around and they are told purgatory so they can have an impact on the functioning of the marine ecosystem some cases we have large
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early fish wish to reach densities life up to 300 or 400. square kilometers along the coastline so this would affect particularly human activities life swimmy on the along the course or fishery and even our cultural plants may be affected because in some cases the venomous china fish can kill hundreds or thousands of fish in a few days and these booms are using local fishing industries and it's estimated that in the north it's rarity they cost italian fishing $8500000.00 euros here stefano sent me north to the aquarium of genoa to discover how the creek tissue meek reproductive process is really compounding the problem the babies found when live near the village married early fish. curator soviet lover are no is breeding thousands of jellyfish. this little she doesn't know about these potent posing
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pretense. why are the jellyfish so efficient at reproducing they are doing that relieve a huge a quantity of sperm and egg they fertilize in this that we have plenty of love all this can go on the bottom of this thing he said on the bottle and became a 4 leaf each fall if they relieved after. divisional not a very big number of jellyfish given the little lie that their fans say they feel. jellyfish are so prolific appraising to single adults can live up 245000 eggs a day these ancient invertebrates if existed since before the dinosaurs and they inhabit every ocean. jellyfish swarms have decimated ari salmon fisheries and hit the tourist industry of a stray but 113000 bathers get stung in a single week. back in lead i've heard that a research project is close to
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a breakthrough it's called go jelly. this is our love of. the internet and her colleagues aim to show food saying to her. that jellyfish are a safe plentiful food source. but serving poisonous jellyfish makes me a little nervous are they all safe to eat it's not you know we're with the starving it just feels this because it just is this a different doxie compound so each jellyfish you will measure yes we measure the way after the frogs and like with the needs of our journey in order to extract different venoms there is some jellyfish that could be left out for your man and jellyfish that are really say to antonella it's research shows that most mediterranean jellyfish are perfectly safe to eat with just a small number needing toxins removed through freezing or simply by washing it's
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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 noise then. this could be a change and if our star is them us today that the day. the power for the right sort of food could be important for local fisherman local restaurants or for local economy and. if jellyfish meat goes mainstream here it could help rebalance marine ecosystems and rated higher in waters of this gelatinous menace. and with 80 percent protein and just 5 percent fat it could also become a highly prized opportunity to meet. farming life stock is
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responsible for 2 food 1.5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. so eating 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 antidote has provided some jelly fish and sent me to go chili's collaborating share fabriano fever. please can we cook with this ok now all the no doubt i say i do yeah yeah. this is 2 different spaces of jellyfish this royal is perfect too if it's a lot over night. there's all the coal to create the most tender
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jellyfish and aims to cook it slowly but 1st we wash it in an ice by placing the head in to ensure it doesn't lose the taste of the sea for piano avoids all seasoning no salt no pepper only oil ok so looking this movie that is in the water about why did you decide to work with go jelly rio i will be good nor will i get 5 percent leg exactly every night oh yes. when the jelly fish comes out of the suv be it's finished off in the oven the piano 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 jelly fish with spears of campari gin and parsley on a bed of italian leaves we have a dish it looks like. 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 there like it i love it still it's just it really is jelly fish is delicious with a very light seafood taste and a texture. but if jellyfish are going to make it on to dinner plates across the world the public will 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 saw not low calorie and also a good taste as so you have all the ingredients of all of the food to be appreciated by the customer. i feel privileged certified jellyfish this has given me
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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 her dressing the damage that we have done 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 an enormous habitat damage. as a california company may have a solution. the impossible. soit based meat substitutes that looks and tastes just like the real thing. meanwhile in israel scientists the farming methods train in fruit flies as a source of protein. using 99 percent less land and emitting just $170.00
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of the greenhouse gases generated when raising regular life stuff. and in new zealand produce. so making insects more palatable to western tastes by coaching 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 our natural world. both floors in cameroons rivers. on a little stream. plastic is everywhere. but if bottles can be fishing
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boats. and bubble gum wellington boots what more can be done with this plague of palomas. earthrise reimagining plastic. on al-jazeera. education is the beacon that mights the future and if in any society that those who live in amman the new places getting an education takes inspiration and determination to get out of the shouting and try to live in the remote areas don't have electricity t.v. or computers. to short films show how a love of learning finds
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