more sustainable meal concepts. but are there seeds taking ruth food for everyone? close up. nest on dw. ah, what secrets lie behind these walls? discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. d w world heritage 360. get the out now. ah fresh food galore. in germany, we're used to supermarkets brimming with produce. but often it has come from far away. that makes our supply chains. vulnerable is a kind of the war and ukraine is revealing our limitations we can tell from the

empty shelves. what didn't come on germany by saying that land come. we need to feed more and more people globally. but in terms of farming threatens the environment and our survival, if we use for this low eco cuts of practices, the next 2000000000 people that will be in the year 2015, we will need a land area, the size of refill. it's time to switch to sustainable farming practices and new food sources. if we want to support the global food chain fan or for an alternative, and then we need to growth a lot of see what food will we eat in the future? farmer eunice, should sidney hoff has been refining this recipe for

a long time. it's something special he thought up for his 3 children. when done, though, to the thick life and archy, this is going to be a kind of chick petosi. i am going to cut it into little fish shapes for my children, fish form schneider. then i'm going to fry it a bit so it gets that extra bit of flavor done. it's a meal made almost entirely from chick peas. and that comes apart from the spices entirely from local production. obviously you're not on a boat silhouette of little chick peas or a ga bonds or beans or a protein rich pulse from the middle east that the farmer has begun to grow in eastern germany. he thinks agriculture and eating habits need to change a marcia nelnet swamped al sin. how should we eat in the future as eating snips or every day isn't good was in it probably isn't good to eat. just let us every day either cover up at variety. the i think that's the most important thing. that means

we don't have to go without anything delighted in it, but it means that our food is very varied and nutritious about us via their feet fetish and i shall tish and send nan con aah! at his farm in the german state of saxony, unheard unit choice, and ne, huff grows all kinds of super foods. to day, he sewing keynote seeds. the grain is native to the south american andes, but feels increasingly at home here. and via among, if we keep on growing what we always have from them, we're not going to get anywhere in the fight. climate change means getting used to be idea of cultivating different crops. i think that's why i find it really interesting, fun and keen. why is really healthy and tasty? like i'm enjoying doing this and i think that's the most important thing possible. if you enjoy something that you can do it while hung collins, i felt like when shots in the huff took over his father's farm 8 years ago. it produced traditional crops like wheat mays and sugar beat,

but he decided to switch to non native crops or forgotten ones. he's gearing up for the future with nutritious and more resilient crops, better suited to new climate conditions. and that's annoying. on the one hand, i want to try out new things and on the other hand, i want to have long term goals. that's important to me. and my father always side farming is about thinking and generations. and i tried to live by that principle under the lewis had alkaline so called super food like keen while are becoming more popular due to their high nutritional value. but demand for keen, why here is driving up prices in south america and threatening their supplies. yet this hardy pseudo grain now thrives in europe to not seem as indy, the thing of it makes much more sense to produce things locally. if it's possible value dealing with him, a certain degree of globalization will always remain. i'm sure you can,

but we save an amazing amount of energy and emissions by avoiding unnecessary transportation home. and of course, it would be great if we could grow our own food supplies to log new drug resistant crops could help in saxony. unhealthy spring rainfall is dropping, and summers are getting hotter and dryer. keen, one is a timely solution. it needs a 3rd of the water required by wheat. more agricultural scientist or to gov inca is supporting the adventurous farmer. together they're checking how the 1st seeds of the year are developing is and this has come up quite well. yarn said, yes, it's coming up quite well in the field. there's a lot of weeds growing up between and we can't see the rows of seedlings from the tractor. the colonel. so we can't use machinery for hauling at the end of the machine, knocked over to sonics crops,

new to the region like keen one and practically forgotten ones like hemp meet a lot of trial and error. things can go wrong, but diversity is key. now decent initially there's risk with all crops. if the weather isn't right the my crops might fail. obviously from that point of view, i am reducing my risk by diversifying i aig and i. it is unlikely that all my crops will fail at once. she should go to lunch, toya, of course, there are costs attached to the learning process. silly is a sort of why we are investing quite a lot of work in something with an uncertain, in a very uncertain outcome and on to visit. but it's an investment for the future. health gung. i was an in the sicilian sutkowski and what it sounds, keena is a super food. it has plenty of calories and it's very healthy and bringing it here is also an opportunity to diversify what we eat tongues and left by a pinta of item bought a galvan, could one saxony, unharmed to become a super food producer. the agricultural scientist has set up an organization to

achieve this goal. ah. used vouchers. vision for farming in the future doesn't involve cultivating the land at all. oh, the front that are the blue on board with him or german marine biologist. zavy, ash, cows and developer leaning a home on their workplace is in a sense, under water one to 4 or 34. from here, for from here down in the water. there is something that they would like to see enriching the diets of people in europe see wheat. ah

there are estimated to be hundreds of thousands of species of algae world wide. only a fraction has been researched. seaweed can be cultivated on ropes at sea. sylvia shed house quickly identifies the types of edible seaweed. thus, as socrates that sugar color, now this green one is to say let us live, you can eat that to come on off as it does here is and that's what coming on does. it weighs at least maybe 3 or 4 kilos. but i think he long there isn't ours been filled here for dinner tonight. in europe, this slippery stuff is still regarded with a little suspicion in many parts of asia. by contrast, seaweed has long been popular. walters would like to see a catch on in europe too,

and help make our diet healthier and more diverse. now the world mainly eats rice, wheat, corn, and meat that promotes the rise of mana cultures. makes us dependent on just a few types of food and vulnerable to crisis. if we want to support the global food chain and offer an alternative or re need the stress on the current system. and then we need to grow a lot of seaweed. 4 years ago, about a set up the seaweed company before that he worked for an unhealthy or part of the food and drinks industry. he was a manager for beek soft drinks company. the birth of his son led to a rethink. now i'm making plans to get children drinking more does beverages, but my boy gets older, i don't want him to drink. and then i realized that those big companies that exist, it's very hard for them to change. and actually i don't think they can change. they wanted, they ride it on their social media,

but in the interest is nothing. currently his company operates 9. see we'd farms cultivating the species that are native to the local ecosystems. the beauty of see read is that it grows in water. we don't need length. it doesn't need fertilizer, it doesn't need fresh water c, we'd also absorbs a lot of c o. 2. a lot more than most things grown in soil because it develops a lot faster. so if you roughly calculate every 1000 feeler wrongs of wet, see we've has a sore 100 and for him computer brown's here to to help popularize it in the european market. the team is also developing new recipes and products. the area around mach to book is one of germany's corn baskets,

or to calvin co wants to use its fertile soil to start a new trend together with her team and farmers like even us should sidney hoth, she's introducing new arable crops to saxony, unhide, she's using his farm as a test field. as for blame us in the problem, is that most farmers experiment a bit o that, but because there's no scientific supervision, they don't get listen to initial wasted. i had as entity on him, you're only deemed important when the university is on board till the researcher from the university of ha, is using her standing to back this agricultural transformation at the moment, just under 16 percent of what is harvested worldwide, directly ends up on our plates 72 percent of it is turned into animal feed and 11.7 percent is used as biofuel, or as an industrial commodity. it must be done via awfully. we have

to move towards producing more food and away from animal feed and fuel type stuff. above all, we need vegetables, hospital men, at the moment it's brought in from around the world. well, i'd like local agriculture to increase and become more crisis resilient rushdin. if we ate less meet, there would be enough food for another $4000000000.00 people. that's another reason why all to call thinking and her students are looking for plants that might thrive locally. need to me, whatever flourishes here in the test garden could help guarantee food security in the future. the pop noise lot, we need new species. that's why we have this garden of to morrow here and for the call. so farmers don't have to try things out on their fields that we're doing a bit of the leg work in advance for we can say yes, it works and you can try it out. look,

it's growing really well or no. let's take one is i have battled look, does lentils don't really work in your soil or chick peas need. those particular conditions have to pop at dionte stand up, putting on the students are recording every experiment. they're amazed at how many non native species grow? well, in this part of eastern germany live over in here. we're trying quite a lot of the pretty crazy way out with things here. for example, the potato bean malavar spinach and perennial. cale would really wild was as organs booked as i am. so come spies in or a future foods is the name of the project. it promotes kilowatt and chick peas. millet sloop heaney beans, ham seeds and lentils. some were wide spread here, but fell out of favor. now they're making a comeback. when did it even so comes fi isn't is the idea of sucrose shy isn't, is from farm to table, most of them to get farmers and cooks and trying out new types of produce trying

out different systems, new agricultural systems of the see the local cultivation team of new plans here and our shelf and i have munson on so long but system change can only work if every one participates. she's convinced of that. and she's got a plan in here in the local youth hostel. the agricultural scientist is getting cookery courses together with her colleague, lena horne, at lyn of atlanta. what are we doing with the game? what am i a day we're going to make? a king was solid and a keen watching p. patty at the workshops, local cooks chefs and bakers are learning how to best prepare the new ingredients. if agricultural system change is going to work, their role is vital and asthma was in been one, it only makes sense if you can get what the farmers are growing on to people's plate sensing science. so we are showing people who work with good what to do with

it, because you're baker's what to do with it. and that's the basic idea. i want it to put it simply hang from farm to table. unfair often tell us the baker is trying his hand at making hummus from regional chic piece. it's a honda too much lemon juice. oh, it's sour and the some of it is absolutely new for me. i am a regular baker who uses ry wheat flour and salt. but i've got 30 years working life ahead of me, and this is the future. my children, my take over my bakery business and i want to build a foundation. unless alternative, i'm looking forward to it a deal before myself. the hostile cook is also enjoying the change was that you woke up. it doesn't always have to be potatoes and why not use something different for a change that can be just as easily cultivated, you know, something from the region which is sustainable. keen was salad with beetroot and

apples. for instance. a local choir is getting to sample the food, all the ingredients are vegan, hello, and kosher said the cook doesn't have to offer alternatives and can put on a really good buffet without spending more. so how's it going down? i need talk. it's my daughter clicks like this, so i'm a bit familiar with it when i have and i think it's good. but personally, i'm still a bit conservative. didn't know how to proceed with all muslim hotley? no, i would also make a patty from chick peas from buffer. we know it from falafel and so on. it's good definitely of it yet. most on now we'll have to see what went down well and what didn't and will need to continue supervising the time. but or to ca, vehicle has to tend to other things. first,

an inconspicuous building on the edge of copenhagen. could it be the solution for many of our food problems? owner sleeman certainly think. so. the name of his new fangled farm is nordic harvest. my background is as a financial analyst at an investment bank and 8th years ago, i was sitting doing an incentive program for the employees of the bank, which gave them the opportunity to earn 100 percent on top of their salary if they were high performers. so then i thought you said okay, just to sit and run some money for yourself and not do enough for the society. the banker became a farmer and set up europe's largest indoor farm in the danish capital, for and as leman, vertical farming is a way to stop the destruction of ecosystems and feed the world's growing population

. at the moment 38 percent of the world's land area is used for food production. it consumes 70 percent of fresh water and is responsible for 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions at re months. eco friendly, vertical farm crops grow without any soil at all. this is the roots growing directly in the wall from the roots absorb nutrients from water more easily than from soil. so they need less fertilizer. the facility is also constantly recycling water. it uses almost 95 percent less than conventional vegetable farming. but the biggest challenge was finding the right lighting one day on my way home from the metro at 3 o'clock at night. after going out in the town, i thought what about if he lives, have there been developed enough to make photosynthesis for pen?

so you can throw them in, lay us in water. and in actual fact 20000 only the panels were able to function like sunlight and stimulate plant metabolism. the light looks purple because vertical farming combines different light spectrums to promote plant growth . we have in the field which we put into an aluminum 3rd and the aluminum will a fall for heath and put it out in the room. the temperature here is between 22 and 26 degrees celsius. ideal growing conditions for salad and the electricity supply is carbon neutral thanks to wind power. inside things grow a lot quicker. there are 15 harvests a year outside only $2.00 to $4.00. vertical farming is independent of the seasons and climate conditions. it's more secure now after for warner and the war and

ukraine, we are very vulnerable for security of buying food. so we need to be able to have food products them inside of the cities as part of the infrastructure, shorter journeys, also mean lehman saves transport costs and avoid c o 2 emissions. it's just a few meters from the shelf to the harvesting machine. most of the work is done by machines, but the technology is still very expensive for as far as facility for would be about $45000000.00 euro. because if the technology is that have just been profitable. so when a civil approved vendor be profitable in all the countries of the world, they are not yet using the facilities entire surface, but already supply $120.00 supermarkets went up to speed. the farm could produce some 1000 tons of leafy greens,

250 times more than conventional agriculture from the same surface area. at the moment, nordic harvest only grows lettuce and herbs here. but more vegetables and fruits like strawberries are planned. hello laura. oh, good, good kim, to know about the result german plants, scientists last me get ski overseas process is in the vertical farm. we want to keep them. she's working with bacteria that will support plant growth. yes. will do better. thank you. is thank of you. hm. yes, the constitutional, i think that we have all the technology here at hand and we have to ensure that we also use it in a positive way for the future on we're doing good pioneering work here to make progress on that front of the sponsoring population growth means that such trail blasing work is becoming more and more important for millions of people. aah!

at the ost as swale. a barrier in the netherlands used devout us is tending his freshly harvested seaweed in the waterside facility. the seaweed is dried or kept fresh in water tanks for further processing. so what you see here is then the sea week after it's finished, so this at the end of the season. beautiful leaves of o for a way of sickly. you still see them here on the rope. this is not so you can see a full rope here. and then we, we cut that, and then we process it in our, in our products. he is already preparing new spores and glass flasks in the refrigerator. ready for seating here you see the beginning of the whole life cycle. this is where the c re, babies, in a very early stage are growing and kept. and this is where we start the base

material for the ceiling. the spores will later be sprayed onto the ropes that will be dropped back into the water. but to day, he and his team are trying out a few products they intend to use to stir up the food industry. finally, some followed was well, filmy. what do we have here? low so we have now see we'd sausages and see burger know with barbecued meats with seaweed. these sausages aren't made from pure pork but include 15 percent. see weir. this beef burger is 30 percent c. we'd use about us and his colleagues realised that not everyone is prepared to give up meet entirely and see we'd helps to cut c o 2 manhattan credit brides. it means you can use 30 percent less meet that's less meant to be produced. and of course,

it's much more sustainable. thus naturalists business now heidegger and cattle. farming produces lots of the climate killers, methane and c, o 2. on average, the production of kilo of beef has a carbon footprint of 13.6 kilos. if you replaced 30 percent of the beef and beef burgers with seaweed, the carbon footprint would drop to 9.5 kilograms per kilo. marine biologist, sylvia shed house also wants to popularize a japanese dish in europe. it's a kind of seaweed fondue quickly. turns green green immediately, but and now we're taking it out and dip. id wait. but if i love it, it's fantastic. go ahead. in restaurants, we can, we can have this as a, as a how do you say that as an experience. so you get some fresh,

she read on one side, you put a phone view on the table. it is. this is really nice. sometimes about us finds it hard to believe how far he and his company have come up 10 years ago. he was still a manager in the soft drinks industry and now he is working to create healthy food fit for the future. he's moved by the thought that his vision might come true. i feel like if we can cultivate see read on a big scale and that's a world no and benefit from what syria can bring an offer alternative for a full chain. i think then i'm happy man ah thought i hope everything's been fine with us after that. oh great. um so what do we have here? chick peas. king la, an hemp. when tons managed to smith organic farmer,

eunice should sidney huff and agricultural scientist ought to cov ankle had been working on their joint mission for 3 years now. with today, the super food expert is promoting their climate friendly and draught, resisted foodstuffs at an organic market. fenders officially in law, and i think it's important to get into conversation with people and ask them whether they like the food or not just was what are they looking for? did they have questions? that's why i like going to the market. it's again, i want to listen to people and pass their feedback on to the farmer as an into the field of research. the scoobie show kind of hot months of work. more and more people are getting into chick peas. over the last 10 years, imports have risen fivefold. ca vega would like to meet the demand domestically and gain more chick p fans i guess on 1st week,

freshly mil to flour and bake them yesterday. i've hardly ever seen some things over. i said also if i had to give a flag of them, that's true enough. bessy and they're lovely, so crispin nutty want and if you can eat chick peas, but can eat not with the great alternative replied, i've even gone online to miss you unless it's my mission and to create farming and a future fit for coming generation. i want to get other people on board and give them a plan. b and b gave them yet to get them on board and tell them that there are ways of changing things. okay, i have a sofa and none me. you're not sure it's a ne huffs chick peas. already for sewing in the idea of growing a new crop. came to him in his kitchen. pulses contain a lot of protein, but domestic types like garden peas, don't grow so well here. any more?

method. hi, miss lee is more difficult now with native legumes because the weather, the climate has changed. with a mild winter, we saw a big rise and pest switch among the dive into shot, and i was on the lookout for alternatives. and one thing led to the next. now i'm growing chick. peas will come. i dismantle. licksey already kept the farmers home grown chick. peas. have been on the market for 5 years now. and recently he's acquired a big customer in berlin, who's using them to make co food, something akin to toe from them. misunderstanding, we need to you less, meet a more plan proteins that we need more variety than before matthew. and then i think we will be able to feed more people using a less land lloyd to that's what we have to aim for if we really want to survive as a society, as human beings on august the december stay in one unit. so it's a ne health is already making the switch to a new type of farming one that could ensure that there's enough food for every one .

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