BBC Future of Food - Part 1: India
Future of Food - Part 1: India In the past year, we have seen food riots on three continents, food inflation has rocketed and experts predict that by 2050, if things don't change, we will see mass starvation across the world. This film sees George Alagiah travel the world in search of solutions to the growing global food crisis. From the two women working to make their Yorkshire market town self-sufficient to the academic who claims it could be better for the environment to ship in lamb from New Zealand, George Alagiah meets the people who believe they know how we should feed the world as demand doubles by the middle of the century. George joins a Masai chief among the skeletons of hundreds of cattle he has lost to climate change and the English farmer who tells him why food production in the UK is also hit. He spends a day eating with a family in Cuba to find out how a future oil shock could lead to dramatic adjustments to diets. He visits the breadbasket of India to meet the farmer who now struggles to irrigate his land as water tables drop, and finds out why obesity is spiralling out of control in Mexico. Back in Britain, George investigates what is wrong with people's diets, and discovers that the UK imports an average of 3000 liters of water per capita every day. He talks to top nutritionist Susan Jebb, DEFRA minister Hilary Benn and Nobel laureate Rajendra Pachauri to uncover what the future holds for our food.
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Ice is melting really bad, google it !!!!
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Aquaponics, really good really really good, google it !!!!!!
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My diet is: rice, potatoes, beans, fruits, vegetables, greens, meat, fish, nuts, seeds, herbs, spices and healthy fats without anything in it...cooking is really easy and quick, just buy whole foods and mix as you like. I am so happy that i don't eat extra processed diet of that family. Just read labels and read something about healthy diet in your free time. Advertisement in grocery store is not a good way to learn your food choices. Knowledge is power, wholefoods are not more expensive than nutritionally empty processed shit. I am really thankful that i have so many healthy foods available 365 days a year in Slovakia. This is my message and the longest writing in english language, so i hope you can read it without problems :D
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good deeds draws good actions, bad deeds lead to destruction, we can only educate, we cannot make every one implement. Change should come from one within.
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You solve the world's food problem by passing out contraceptives. Or, start WW3.
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homework is boring
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its the food waste causing a lot ofthe problems
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black beans are lush.i make my owwn blackbean sauce for my chinese stylestiryfry very healthy ,
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learn to say "Punjab" correctly... it's not too difficult. The first part is the english word "PUN". (not like in "Poon")
Get real dude... you look Indian, it cannot be tough to say Indian cities/states/other names properly -
BBC propaganda. Don't bother....
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Quite an eye opener!
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deppresing.sad.poor people poor animals
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14.00 documentary fail. says oil prices can reach 200$ a barrel, while today it trades at less than 50$. funny how things can change
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very nice documentary ..!! good topic..!
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Phephw. Have just seen a few minutes of this video and it makes me grateful that I live in one of the world's largest food exporters--the U.S. Food security is not a big issue here in America, and for good reason--there are hundreds of millions of acres of food that are grown here and, if the need arose, hundreds of millions of more acres of fertile farmland lay fallow, ready to be used. And most of this fallow land is close to the huge rivers of eastern America, along with the Great Lakes. So no shortage of water. India, on the other hand, is f***ed. It has no fallow land left; all fertile land is now heavily cultivated. There are close to 1.3 billion Indians and by 2050 there will be 300 million more, at 1.6 billion. And now the monsoons are getting erratic and the groundwater supplies of northern India are now being exhausted. Good luck to them with this situation, less food and less water with far more people...
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I'm gobsmacked at the "choices" the family are making. It seems to stem from complete lack of simple education about basic food requirements. The (very overweight/obese) mother chose a Robinsons product because she thought it was better than sugary drinks. For God's sake!!! Her size seems to indicate she might be getting calories from sources other than she decided to disclose in the interview. The family seemingly have a lot of time on their hands due to unemployment issues so why aren't they investigating healthy ways to eat and trying to grow a few basic food ingredients (like lettuce/herbs/rocket etc) in their garden...you can grow these things no matter WHAT the size of your accommodation. Even on your balcony. Why aren't they eating minimally and exercising as a family to ensure their overall health and income?! Unbelievable.
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The choices this family made are poor - mostly processed grain, sugar with hydrogenated oil. All is industry prepared food void of veggies. Why waffles if you have lasagna noodles?. Both parents are home now so they have time to make home made food that is cheaper and heather. They should buy salad instead of waffles for the meal
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We are producing already more than enough for all humans on earth and wasting too much of it. People in some countries overeat while in other countries they are starving. We are actually producing and consuming too much sugar, meat and grain. We should eat more local vegetables not importing cheap sugar, meat and grain. If we produce a better quality food than we will eat better because it would be more satisfying
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start the day with 16oz. lemon water, hour later 16oz. fresh "homemade" juice, and early afternoon brown rice, lentil, and bean bowl. The other meal is an assorted grain (buckwheat, millet, barley, oats, etc) with lentils, and beans. some home grown or grocery vegetables, fruits, and olives. dessert last night was buckwheat cream hot cereal cooked with fresh almond milk, raisins, and a nougat of butter, being the only fat I consumed that day. I'm 64 with cholesterol under 150, same weight and clothes size I was in High School, and Healthy and Energetic. I'm never tired of "Beans and rice"....love it!
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Just watch Monsanto move in now and change Cuba'sr healthy way of farming. Its sad but they will end up sick and fat like in America as they try to become like the Americans. Hope Raul is wiser than our politicians. He seems to be a very intelligent man.
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