agriculture aimed at building rapidly growing cities in asia. also on the show why south koreans turn to such a poor question faced with high levels of. welcome to do business asia and monica jones and berlin good to have you with us and a jury in the united states has found that reads killer roundup was a substantial factor in causing cancer in a seventy year old man round up aig life is that based herbicide just make us a great chemical firm here we're again monsanto now old by german multinational by a landmark verdict could affect thousands of other cases i said it was disappointed with the jury submission decision the case now moves to a second phase to determine the company's financial liability and damages. he holds monsanto responsible for his non hodgkins lymphoma edwin hard to man use the

weed killer rant up for decades be claimed this ruined his health and caused his cancer and the court agrees in coming weeks that decides on the compensation the plaintiffs should be given by a group which acquired monsanto last year took an aggressive stance and their initial statement. we are disappointed with the jury's initial decision but we continue to believe firmly that the science confirms that like a state based herbicides do not cause cancer. in recent weeks the san francisco court heard testimony from numerous scientists and considered several studies however when it came to assessing potential cancer risk scientists and studies came to different conclusions. the world health organization says in one study there is a cancer risk another says gleick the state does not cause cancer the court decided in favor of the plaintiffs though and some twelve thousand other cases are in the legal pipeline the coming weeks will so if an avalanche of cost is rolling towards

buyer only nine months after it bores up month on toe. correspondent called joins us now and germany's financial frank the life and crop science make up a big part of biased business how big is the damage in terms of lost trust its enormous monica share price of buying has around about how of since the takeover of monsanto was first announced in twenty sixteen and the largest part of those losses has occurred since last august when we had this first court case in the united states where buyer was sentenced to bait to pay damages because of life or saved and you know in this case now in san francisco we shouldn't forget that this is called a bellwether case which means that we're not only talking about this one man and we're talking about more than seven hundred more cases that the judge in san

francisco has on his table and all those cases can proceed now more easily ok can i listen to in frankfurt thank you so much. well how what could such a verdict mean for agricultural biotechnology as a whole after all the world must be fed right now the five biggest cities in the world are all in asia and they keep growing letters all the food is supposed to come from some say urban farming is the key. vegetables from the factory any less water less fertilizer less crop protection and above all less land vertical greenhouses can fit just about anywhere even in the middle of cities like indonesia's capital jakarta in asia producers have been experimenting with high tech cultivation for years and not just for vegetables but also for protein meal worms or crickets for example can be produced in an urban environment

and have significant advantages over traditional means. for example only fifteen square metres is needed to produce a kilogram of insects per kilo of beef you need seventeen times that much space and when it comes to water or food consumption they're also vastly more efficient. so are city born tech companies the farmers of the future in two decades time they could be nine billion people living on a planet today's agriculture won't be enough to feed them all. nine billion people and more and more live in cities how to feed them well that's what the global food summits currently underway in munich in southern germany is all about and there we're now joined by mark seymour a tour there or he is the assistant director general of the economic and social development apartment of the united nations food and agricultural organization good to have you with us let me start by asking you how big

a role do you think i take farming is going to play in cities in the near future. and thank you very much it's a pleasure to be with you a clearly there has been a huge increase in terms of population moving to run areas and as our sole there will be a significant change in diet so no significant change in the month of food which doesn't mean that we don't have the food today to deliver to the population that we have today even to deliver to the future of ablation but these are the changing diets would require a change in production systems in that sense a new technologies disruptive technologies that we are observing could play a significant role in helping to provide those with specific diets of a higher quality in those environments examples we have control environments that's the one that has become more advanced today and he's the most cost effective vertical farming is still is in the process they would take some time to to make it cost effective and but controlled environments have been pretty successful tonight

let me pick up on the vertical farming issue do you think this is something that could eventually enable cities to feed to themselves. there are several technologies that are being put in place because farming is one of those controlled environments are also happening in substantially in cities and close to the borders of cities and what we know up to now you seem to arms of course the fact even is a controlled environments are more cost effective and they can start being the way in which we can feed it will receive these vertical farming of course they need less base but it acknowledges more complicated or more sophisticated and up to now the cost effectiveness is not yet there but the hope is that they will keep keep improving now remember again. of these type of they can always use to deploy them in environments where normally conditions are not a optimal for article show where we have poor souls where we have extreme work conditions under those conditions controlled environments like they respond or the vertical ones are the ones i will the last to provide substantial deals and

therefore be able to feed of these two there will be populations. have to ask you one question as well because controlled environment also is. one way or another includes the use of biotechnology which is used as also especially in asia they're quite open for that now we've had this landmark that dick. again stevens on to round up the week's killer how do you think is this going to impact the future of the use of biotechnology. i am mostly referring is to products that are not necessarily africa today by about your knowledge of roads or high value commodities like fresh vegetables and high value but i use which are being set up being in control environments and that's not right now where bio thing really is putting its focus and therefore those are the ones where i think we can profit and we can get benefit from having these controlled environments in close to the cities the important thing to understand is that

article two is facing the challenge is a challenge in terms of sustainability we need to reduce emissions under controlled environments how to do that and at the same time we need to increase and improve the diets of people because of the double burden that we have today under specially the problem of obesity so we've got a problem in the changing quality of diets that's where we need to provide these right the of quality of food high value commodities especially in the us where these type of technology we. are there from the united nations food and agricultural organization thank you so much for your time. south korea is battling high levels of absolution the problem is driving up shares of companies that make air purifier mosques but many locals swear by an old tradition using slippery pork oil to clean their throats. like everyone else in seoul teenager hang dong jay struggles with the worsening smog but he thinks greasy barbecue pork is the solution. heard from my mom the pork helps and pork belly is my favorite food

so eat more pour can find just as dense like today that it was that the white south korea's air quality is now among the worst in the region emissions from cars and coal fired power plants combined with small crumb china and north korea mean south korea has double the levels of dangerous particular matter than other rich countries so the south koreans follow the ways of their forebears by using lots of pork sales of it are up around twenty percent who are going to do it feels like oil from the meat washes away the dust in my throat go to the people who do the work. the government has declared the pollution a social disaster health professionals say eating pork is an urban legend and makes no difference but it doesn't just affect humans despite the discomfort curry sometimes has to get his mask onto. in other news saudi arabia is hoping to raise twenty billion dollars to promote a remote site in the northwestern part of the country as

a tourist destination outlaw which last month's host of the region's first ever hot air balloon festival is famous for its pretty islamic heritage sites it's hoped the investment will create such a five thousand jobs pump billions of dollars into the country the measure is part of saudi's attempts to diversify its economy away from oil. a new freight route linking china with belarus has officially opened it's the latest stage of beijing's new silk road initiative the first train set off on its sixteen day journey to belarus at a ceremony at one chunk in eastern china it was carrying forty six containers of clothes and electrical products on the same day another train making the opposite journey arrived in china with forty one containers of the agricultural products and organic materials the trains are expected to run twice weekly. uglies in london have arrested a billionaire jeweler who fled to india after finding out she was wanted on fraud

charges modi is one of the main suspects wanted in relation to a two billion dollars for what scheme he's accused of raising credit by using illegal guarantees provided by a rogue staff at india's state run punjab national bank is arrest comes just three months after a british court ordered the extradition of another indian tycoon b.j. . and that's business asia here on the w. and next up is news so stay tuned meanwhile for me and the team here in berlin thanksgiving is going. to.

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