Can we create the “perfect” farm? – Brent Loken

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Can we create the “perfect” farm? – Brent Loken


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….

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  2. Controlling nature created the problem, more control won't solve it.

    "Agroforests" and "work with native plants" can be better, less intervention. But mass production with technology replacing humans having the knowledge is always a problem and never a solution.

    Plus, plant-based diets can't support human health as new researches are clarifying and we can't bend our biology to accept our ideologies. Instead of stopping mass industrial production to save the planet, the idea is to reduce the availability of essential animal products…

    it's all backwards, and it all steems from the wrong premisse, that the civilized way is the blessing from which everything should come and to which everything should work to be maintained.

  3. you know well that in the world of comments criticism is never welcome. therefore, probably against logic, before directing my criticism to what was said in the video and exalted by the community I prefer to ask you, if you want to hear it first. Nobody likes to be attacked for just saying what you think, ?so you want to hear it?

  4. Way to take something simple and turn into a machine and chemical disfunctional dystopia. How about looking at how agricultural functioned for thousands of years without destroying the land or complex machinery. The answers are simple like eco-villages, biodiversity, permaculture and a little using your brain and some effort.

  5. The United States Geological Survey says that about 71% of the earths surface is water, so how could 40% be farmland? Curious to see references to this video's information.

  6. This content is a potent guiding influence. Reading a book with related messages had a significant impact on me. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint

  7. Paani foundation in India is performing miracles, with water retention, agroforestry and incentivizing entire villages to work together with nature, improving the livelyhoods of many.

  8. Why does everyone seems to like this video so much? The narrative looks really naive and basic. I mean, maybe I just think that cause I've read about the subject. (I really love the book Small Farm Future)

  9. The major impact we have had on our planet is astonishing. Day by day things are getting more and more severe. We recognize this and are determined to do our part in reconstructing our planet. Planet Cents enables meaningful change by connecting people to our sustainable marketplace, making it easier to live sustainably- Team Planet Cents

  10. I study Agriculture specializing in Plant Pathology where we study different pathogens that inflict harm to our crops and causes diseases. We found out that monocropping (planting a single crop over a wide area), which is a well-known cropping system of conventional agriculture, encourages more plant disease epidemics as it deteriorates the ecosystem and the biodiversity of the area, thus reducing the yield and income of the farmers. Sustainable agriculture will help prevent the spread plant diseases as it encourages diversity and vitality, not just to the farm, but also to the community as well. With sustainable practices, like multiple cropping and agroforestry, the population of the pathogens in the soil microbiome is reduced as they have to compete with the flourishing essential microbes in the soil, thus decreasing disease incidences. The goal of our generation is to provide food and controlling epidemics that destroy our food while taking care of the environment.

  11. Field robots, hundreds of sensors? We don't need all this. We need healthy small scale integrated methods that are tried and tested. No need to make farming AI dependent too.