Explore the innovative ways countries are revolutionizing farming to ensure we can feed humanity in a way that works with the environment.

About 10,000 years ago, humans began to farm. This agricultural revolution was a turning point in our history and enabled the existence of civilization. Today, nearly 40% of our planet is farmland. Spread all over the world, these lands are the pieces to a global puzzle we’re all facing: in the future, how can we feed every member of a growing population a healthy diet? Brent Loken investigates.

Lesson by Brent Loken, directed by Hype CG.

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  2. Jammu, Kashmir and Ladak is Indian territory. You should have gained adequate geographic knowledge before making this video.

  3. The perfect farm is the one which does not need soil and sunlight, just water and nutrients.

  4. everything sounded good up until you said "drone". "A farmer's best fertilizer is his shadow" – Chinese Proverb. A drone doesn't smell, touch and observe the same way I can. Technology won't save us from our current situation, what is required is to dial back technology to the scythe, pitchfork and the use of animal husbandry, and getting more people who have the knowledge of how our ancestors farmed. Don't try to download this job to technology, it is our most important job, and it needs a human to perform every step of it.

  5. Wokism is changing animation too in all this video not a single white person was drawn. 👀 Eventhough this video is about farms of the future which will most likely be implemented in white countries.

  6. Is there any project to modify the killer bees to reduce hazard? Should be better use of genetic engineering

  7. Actually, the solution to the problem is not more productive farming. That solution will only increase the human population which is the real problem.

    Every time we create solutions for the benefit of mankind, we reduce good habitat in favor of humans.

    dwindling,

  8. Me encantaaaaa, amo yo, environmental, naturalista yo, amo el medio ambiente, los mo a todos, viva la naturaleza, viva Colombia, saludos desde monteria, Luchy loves environment

  9. With initiative, perseverance, and continual adaptation, we have the spirit and IQ points to do these things. Be the change, because We the change.

  10. This is the best video ever. Shout out to my Geo teacher for reccomending it slayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. <3

  11. When humans began to farm 10,000 years ago, it was an agricultural revolution that changed the way we live and eat. Today, we’re in the midst of another agricultural revolution, a more sustainable one that can incorporate Indigenous planting practices, consider local ecosystems, leverage modern technologies, all while factoring in food scarcity and climate challenges.

  12. I personally think that at some point due to innovation and population growth,the earth would become too small to sustain us all hence the need to become a multi-planetary species

    I hope that future technology will enable us do that and PS,If u personally think it's not possible,then don't discourage others from doing it-RESPECTFULLY😁
    👍

  13. I'm disappointed TED-Ed as you've not shown the correct Indian, you have excluded J&K and Ladakh completely…For the first time, I'm completely disappointed by TED.

  14. To mention rice farming innovation without dropping Fukuoka’s name is a disservice. This video is so surface level

  15. Indoor farm solutions like Square m2 is a good example to overcome some of the problems and some say that indoor farming is the future of agriculture.

  16. This video is amazing! Can you direct me to a place where all the sources are identified? I want to use this video as a cornerstone for a food unit in my biology classes this year. TIA!

  17. Nothing will change if we don't end socialized agricultural practices. Subsidized farming innately industrializes and monopolizes the agricultural sector, depleting open opportunity for participation by common people. Common people will only engage agriculture with abundant free opportunity to produce their own livelihood through their own land and efforts, and those efforts must provide the incentive for them to obtain personal entrepreneurial gains, opportunity for personal wealth. Agriculture is the foundation for society, because it is the foundation for the natural marketplace. socializing agriculture removes it from the open marketplace, leading to a cascading trophe of socio-economic instability and expanding wealth gaps inevitably across every industry and economy.

  18. Humans need to stop thinking that they are bigger than nature itself.. We do not need all this technology, artificial fertiliser, tilling etc… Nature is a great teacher from which we can learn. By switching to wild farming methods that work with nature instead of against it and whilst changing our mental attitudes towards diet and the way food is grown we can reach a level where we are giving back to the earth, creating a positive shift. Gaia has plenty for human need but never for human greed.

  19. Plz some one just come to sudan and make investments in agricultural area . Just search about sudan agricultural land and u will know

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