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flush exactly has changed. the red lights, dog, shadows, 6 tourism in time and the oldest 16 on dw, the industrial nations have always had an abundance of food. and the waste, with thousands of tons thrown away every day. hardly a sustainable system. climate change buttons harvests worldwide, but especially in countries already suffering acute shortages and with solutions desperately needed. can high tech help out the focus of this edition of made the double use business magazine. the also coming up in the show parts for the 1st mushrooms, the future of farming an app that can help to diagnose plants diseases and
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increased harvest. plus could we soon be facing a world without coffee. a room stacked with erie looking objects shrouded in fog. but what looks like some alien clothing facility in a science fiction movie is actually a mushroom farm in berlin. the varieties being grown here are from asia. they range from the same. is she talking to king oysters or the less well known e? i'm up who she talking or lions main mushroom. we try and keep the, the distance from harvesting from growing and harvesting to consumer in and around 20 kilometers. so what our farm berlin are. so our pilot farm, we are producing more than 3 tons of mushrooms, fresh mushrooms, harvested every month. we are selling those to gastronomy to wholesalers, to some larger supermarket chains of the delivery time to downtown
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berlin is under one hour, which means the mushrooms are super fresh on arrival at restaurants. there. the quality of these mushrooms is it's very good and it's also a constant, which is something very, very difficult to actually find especially um, in jimmy that i found these mushrooms would normally be sourced from thousands of kilometers away, apprise delicacy for gore amazed. but poor performers on the environmental front growing food where it's consumed as a concept with a growing appeal for producers, eager to save on both space and resources. and for many cities, the nearest farm will be some distance away. to have the quality effectively on our doorstep is something which is rare, especially nowadays the food industry is responsible for around
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a 3rd of global carbon emissions with production and land use change accounting for 24 percent and transportation for a further 6 percent. and then norm is burdened on the environment the you have a lot of extra c o 2 emissions as well as all the materials needed to get them there to store them here and there, the refrigeration, needed, etc. and when you're growing something locally, as we are, you cut out all of those c o 2 emissions. a fruits and vegetables have a particularly high carbon footprint. a major factor here is the large number of varieties being transported across long distances. what's more in refrigerated trucks to us, china, india and russia rank worst in terms of transportation related emissions in the food production industry. the looking at germany, for example, in 2021. it imported 63 percent of its vegetable supplies,
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and some 80 percent of its fruit. the vast majority comes from southern europe or overseas, meaning lengthy journeys by sea or even air. while the wealthiest nations constitute only a small proportion of the global population, they are responsible for almost half of the world's food miles. and therefore for the related emissions to their lot of restaurants in billing now, which do actually try and fix which to fix their products. on something very, very low regard to having delivery times. and also the distance of delivery is it just helps. once again, we're talking about reducing carbon footprint. try to be as brief as possible, but it's something that we're working towards here effectively. just trying to get as much as we can from gemini, and from the local area. the next step for the mushroom farm in the suburbs of
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berlin is to recruit artificial intelligence. to save energy and minimize product loss. we're developing some a i tools which use imagery in our grow rooms. we can monitor the monitor them on a 24 hour basis and they help us understand the prime time for picking so that we harvest those mushrooms at the perfect time of rightness and maturity. it's estimates that almost 80 percent of all the food produced globally is consumed in cities. so growing crops in urban areas make sense, proven agriculture to cover some 10 percent of world wide demand for vegetables, except that this would require an enormous amount of land. power as for example, would need one and a half times its size and farm land in order to become self sufficient. imagine a coffee house where you can't even get a lot take, let alone a double espresso. unthinkable,
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but not beyond the realm of the impossible. thanks to climate change, wreaking havoc here to you might soon be having that rendezvous over a cup of a t coffee. the world 2nd most consumed of average. and so in great in our lives that it's made it into paintings and oliver pop culture. i'm gonna get some coffee or some coffee. there's a lot of regular sleep. i can dream fast. i always copy what i watch right? are you know that this is, excuse me, a damn fine cup of coffee, but you're wanting habits, you know, might not be guaranteed. climate change is threatening rules like coffee crop, production, drought rising temperatures and irregular ring, far ruining coffee, harvest. some studies say the amount of suitable land for coffee production kitchen by half, by 2050. today, people drink over 2000000000 cups of coffee worldwide. every day. consumption has almost doubled over the past 3 decades alone. se asia is expected to have nearly doubled the global growth rate as westernize increase and the rising middle class increased demand. and let's not forget china solver expense, open
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a coffee shop every 9 hours, so we can reach 9000 locations across the country by 2025. which means we need to be growing a lot of coughing. requirement instability is already taking a huge toll on production in 2021, a severe frost and brazil's coffee region of manager and i swiped out coffee trees in an area of roughly the size of nutritious coffee, price of search, nearly 13 percent regeneration of across an eco system will take years, meaning losses will continue. such a regular temperatures also make the plants more vulnerable to pest and disease. for the last 15 years, a rust epidemic coffee refreshed arrived in, in strong forest, across the central and south america in central america alone. 1.7000000 people lost work during that period. so there are human consequences to the challenging part of the difficulties that coffee is. a relatively finity plant. it goes through a delicate flowering face before the cherries come in and takes 4 years for a single coffee tree to get a 1st harvest. another problem is that out of
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a $120.00 research pieces of coffee, we only during 2 of them coffee, our abaca and coffee are kind of 4 otherwise known as were booster around because the higher end stuff that has all those settled flavor nights. we live as a plant needs the temperature between roughly 18 to 21 degree celsius, around 30 percent shade cover with plenty of consistent rainfall. it's more sensitive to high heat disease and produces fewer beans. over 60 percent of global production is, are applica. it's sibling robust as a more resilient plan, but tastes not as great and ends up in mostly stuff like in some coffee. and that's it. we're almost entirely reliant on just to varietals. coffee also has a small gene pool and at least 60 percent of world coffee species are at risk of extinction. this makes our current supply extremely vulnerable to copy research is so behind relative to what other commodities, as we can do so much with traditional technologies, just taking pollen from one place, putting it on another, creating
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a speed of something new, collecting data at a global scale and it's not rocket science, it's very straightforward. what needs to happen? thankfully there's some good news. so if there are new, new by this coming up and in that are some high bid the 3rd spread by like seats. so there is so cute settings that's been, that's the failure to because it's the how smart it's just supposed to find a match. and that you see at the starbucks recently announced that it had developed 6 new varieties of coffee seats, including hybrids that resist leave for us to and generate higher yields and a shorter period of time. this is big news, considering the chain by is about 3 percent of all the world coffee from 400000 farmers across 30 countries. a few researchers are also trying to fish these. these out of the wild trophy has done to fill out, for example, is making a splash. it's a rare and threatened species from west africa that tolerates much warmer temperatures and actually taste comfortable to arrive. okay. by this for idle has commercial potential bringing wild spaces into production can only exist on
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a new scale and could take decades. the bigger problem is that at least 80 percent of the world's coffee is produced by small so they're farmers. these farmers generally work on a few hector's of land and don't have the resources to buy hybrid ceilings, which are roughly 40 to a 160 percent more expensive than the traditional variety or output also means more labor and carbon intensive costs like fertilizers, hybrids use 90 percent more labor and increase the cost of other inputs by almost 50 percent. it's an investment firms may not have the means to take on. that's what you solos to sing for them to talk. but they've rustic fights, timing system, and not only having puppies, but also threes or other kinds of groups, you know, that will help a safety net which brings us to agra forestry. this is an approach that grows coffee alongside other plants like trees which can increase nutrients, cycling, bio diversity, carbon storage, and provided micro climate. some can also bring extra income from fruits, timber or firewood. but it's a tricky balance. planting other trees for shade lower the air temperature and
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breezes swell moisture which can protect it from weather changes and fluctuating harvests. but human shape can hinder yield. we should work together with apartments in order to understand what the, what, what works well for apartments where the senior decent, where does the contradictions. so why not just have everyone adopt over forestry? well, any change entails risk, which is hard for farmers to justify with just one harvest per year. it also takes extra labor and sometimes extra land to support the harvest of more than one crop. lastly, it's about farmers access to resources. they don't always have access to the thing for the nation that is being produced by by site we need to combine. so did you just turn on ecological? no natural evidence without you've ever known it. together with the scientific knowledge, without the support, there's a big this incentive for coffee farmers who often prefer to stick with what they know given how hard it is to adopt in our current conditions, the future of coffee could look a little more different that we think as in your coffee to come from some
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unexpected places, the experts say that countries like china and australia have ramped up coffee being production in recent years and could become bigger players in the future. but for now, our coffee addictions aren't going anywhere anytime soon. and the industry strategy to keep up it's pipeline is technology technology technology. we are really focused on the technology, you know need. and so i would say in the next 5 to 10 years, we'll see a flush of new variety is it's a paint brush and a, you know, spreadsheet it's very intense of data analysis. but some districts across disciplinary burke of scientists, governments and everyone in the supply chain that is consumers. the best we can do is pay attention to sourcing the coffee supply chain, often locks transparency as it's bad for business. so what we can do is work with smaller suppliers who give more information on the origins and production conditions of their coffee beans. a supermarket scene from the future. no coffee, no much rooms, no,
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nothing. farmers world wide are seeing increasingly meeker, harvest a trend that some stop a little more reversible as so often our fate lies in our own hands. does climate change pose a threat to our food supply? know coffee for breakfast? no cocoa for the kids and no bananas for any one of a condo. so main goes coconuts and pope pius all gone to pessimistic. not necessarily the because it could soon become reality. climate change is leading to more craft failures. dictating what we can buy in stores and how much it costs. a lot of products are only groaning specific regions due to the right climate conditions. and these areas too are increasingly subject to drought hurricanes in floods,
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leaving farm land and the use of all and harvests devastated. mano cultures with the same crops, have grown year in year out, are particularly vulnerable to weather extremes, disease and insect pests. and climate change has commercial impact is already being felt a bacterial disease, so orange juice becomes scarce and expensive. spins olive oil harvest has been slashed by half in recent years. with a similar fate, potentially a waiting global coffee production like 2050. while the world currently has enough food shortages and to market uncertainty are pushing up prices everywhere. one answer could be growing new varieties of prompts that are more resilient to heat storms and flooding. the same applies to crops produced in organic farming systems . and then there's a remedy that is actually thanks to climate change with whole new areas being
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turned into arable land. don't be surprised to see your mailing is coming from germany. brake lines switch from iceland or orbit condos, imported from easily the order and food via an app as easy as pie. and now you can even coordinate cross harvest's remotely via smartphone. a german company has created an app for identifying m, treating crops disease as a tool that's especially vital and those parts of the world where farmers struggle to secure a decent meals in india. for example, the technology has the potential to give harvest a much needed boost. if appliance in the field looks unhealthy, these farms pull out the phones, take a picture and find out right away whether the plant is diseased. the app i don't
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know is, is the photo and is needed provide its health with treatment plan thinks it look like it's just like a crop doctor. i it plays the same role in my life as my personal doctor does. for all your identified scrub diseases suggests treatment and prescribed medicine and treatment options. but the medicine billy sleep on taking a smart phone into the field alongside to her and shovel has become part of everyday life. the indian farm is the potential of digital tools in agriculture, and india is huge. almost half of the population works in the agricultural sector. it's very difficult for people to correctly identify disease within a kid. i can do this within seconds directly in the field, but how exactly does it work? that quote that you will not be including the using the app is very easy then 1st open plastics on your android phone. next, you have to take a picture. we are taking picture up particularly after snap in the photo. it
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needs to be uploaded to the app 1st identifies the crap football load i a valid competence and all that this data is then processed in germany by planting, which is part of the home pharmaceutical company. the found just started out of students that the university of honda is a experimenting with tomatoes. this would then be central a service analyzed by the bureau network as we, as it does is called. so it's basically a model that 6 a did unique finger print off a certain disease or past and would then return the results circle drawn, doctors help the image database to categorize pictures that it doesn't know. this is how the a lunch so that it can lights and make recommendations. symptoms by entering news, there's the symptoms to diagnose the disease. there's a yellowing of the leaves starting at the margins. the am says that there is no
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disease, but the potassium deficiency around a 1000000 farm is already use. the plant takes up almost exclusively in india. the apps image database contains 35000000 pictures of different clogged diseases, ensuring an accurate diagnosis. and you know, 700 different crap problems on 30 different crops, potentially not because it's just too much to, to know. and it's also some kind of diagnostic that's tough for human to do. if a disease is detected, the app recommends the relevant pest assigned to uses and shows where it can be purchase. but local retailers don't always have all the products in store which can lead to farm is buying the wrong items or even fakes. there's tons of consequences . we estimate that roughly half of all the product sold in india, and probably also in other countries in the world are not suited for $3.00 to $4.00
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. we've tried to make 1st of all the prescription, correct, and secondly, have farmers to buy products that are from where reputed organizations where we know that the, the, these are really good. how to the products farmers report best to harvest since using context. sundays sion though was a fast reluctant to trust a guy which is livelihood is just to the bottom as i can advise gilbert. i didn't trust the app in the earlier months, but later when i start taking pictures of the diseased prompts for the app smart features of suggesting the right treatment to make me feel more confident. welcome . let's go for the, for the one of them. what today is mid this is going so i can do this by far more accurate. will it be always right? no, there is no absolute 100 percent correct. advising all the cases every time and for, for, for none of the systems in the world. and how do you en, money with such an app?
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there are 2 different versions. one for farm is and one for retailers who can buy fertilizes that helps if the apps for farmers generate data on wet and when demand for a product increases. small scale farm is in india have enough internet fund with 5 that's smartphones, even in rural areas, which is the only way they can use apps like contracts. it's an opportunity to prevent corrupt failures and ensure a stable income and the floods. you'll be much less than a nice. we use the latest agra technologies and apps like planting. we will get better healthier crops because this guy would use the farming business can generate good income if the data is used properly. and soil health is maintain that stuff if there was lots of data. hey, i would replace farm is know how and experience any time soon. instead, artificial intelligence is a supplement that makes working in the fields just a little bit easier. the
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sometimes it seems we do every thing in our power to harm nature and the climate others. some people are now taking action to at least limit the effects of climate change. in addition to farm land, longer drought periods are also affecting forest, leaving them in greater exposure to fires and ravenous insects. specialists and berlin are deploying customized drones to a good reforestation of fire scarred by devastating wild fires. now drone is being deployed as part of a plan to fill the gap over an area the size of several football fields. it's scattering special seed pellets from which saplings will sprout to replenish the tree population. germany is covered in pine forests. the tree is an important
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construction materials, but is extremely vulnerable to forest fires in pest, which is wide drones belonging to a berlin company had been brought into re plans to forested areas. bus one of the lots of areas where nothing would happen without the drones eating. gonzales. a skilled labor shortage on other factors and making it possible to keep pace. i'm on the top of them on everything. missed into outcomes. syndrome features a large container with a hatch that opens up mid air to release the seat pellets gets filled with a mixture of 3 seeds. custom composed for the forest floor. 12 kilos of seeds are enough for a round one. hector. it takes just 20 minutes for the drone to disperse its load. the seeds have no smell or taste which prevents nails and mice from eating them at around $4000.00 heroes per hector re firestick with
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drones costs roughly half as much as planting trees by hand. * the tree seeds grow right on the forest floor. the only around 10 percent of them actually terminate. the planting trees by hand is the most common reforestation method. but it's labor intensive and time consuming. most of the seedlings come from tree nurseries and out in nature usually proved to be less resilient than those grounds here from seen. forests are an important factor from many economies. word is used as a building material, as well as in the production of paper and packaging. in germany, more than a 1000000 people are employed in the forestry and timber sectors. in 2022, the german wood products industry posted a turnover of around 45000000000 euros. but aid could take decades until the forest,
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seated from the sky produces dividends and defense too long with reforestation efforts lacking far behind. and this is not to do so we'll just advise what happens is that the owner doesn't have any money coming in from the forest for the 1st 10 or 20 or 30 years. so you got because the trees are still very young. and so i hope that you always, and they have to wait until the 3040 or 50 is old before they can harvest industrial, tim, the from the so what are the options given the slow piece of growth we have and told us once it goes even beyond us, but we have a cycle of around 7 years young and we try yeah, we have it's commercially harvested ones to alton. what we no longer do is clear coaching, clear we can tie areas and really focusing on the dogs to cause. a drone with a camera on board is sent to fly over the terrain and gather soil data. the resulting information is processed. beckett, sky seats, office in berlin. then
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a computer is used to work out the most effective route for this seating drone. in effect making, you'd send me your autonomy as a software program, stores the soil data for the respective client enabling sky seat to monitor forest groups. we would continuously go to this pipe mainly during the summer to see the development there. and we always need that information to call back on like what exactly we see that they're in what quantities in the drone workshop, 13 tinker away on new drone devices for dropping the seeds a few months after they've been so the 1st the trees start to grow with any luck, 30 years from now, they'll be tall and sturdy specimens like these from
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