Regiment controlled by the king of thailand. Demonstrators wave the inflatable rubber ducks which have become a symbol of their long standing demand for constitutional reforms. Riot police blocked the gates to the barracks in the capital, bangkok. Thousands of people have been evacuated from the slopes of an erupting volcano in the column of ash has risen 4000 meters into the sky. Officials have set up an exclusion zone on one Bottle Island and close the airport. A seismic hotspot in the media has been has more than 100 active volcanoes. Says deal news from berlin. You can follow us on twitter and instagram at d. W. News or visit our website thats v. W. Dot com. Is this what the future of agriculture looks like . Vegetables in that is has stacked on several floors artificially lets fully automated farming attention from drought prostin strife. This isnt a futuristic question in japan, this is already the reality for a lot of you in this system, we can produce food on the optimal conditions with high nutritional content and food tasted good lujan wrote wonderfully balanced the big difference to working in a field of a good book about which working the fields in brandenburg. These thick dust clouds are due to the drought without massive artificial irrigation, there would be no harvest. Are these fields facing an imminent collapse of duty because the conditions are currently i would have to recommend my children look for a different profession. Devastating drought here. Heavy flooding elsewhere. Food production is in danger, and catastrophic famines wreak havoc throughout the world. Researchers are searching for solutions a typical harvest in japan. The workers were protective suits that are hygenic, they prepare the environment as clinical. These lettuce heads are cultivated, that sort and free of pesticides. In this room, the temperature always remains the same because i find it pretty good that i can always work indoors regardless of the weather. Intransitive and in the rice fields. Vertical farming is the name of this method from japan as seen here at the companys spread and cure to the roots thrive in the liquid, nutrients, and ocean without topsoil. With the same natural ingredients, such as sodium and potassium lamps with a similar color temperature to sunlight are used. Solar collectors and the buildings green facade indicate that progress is at home here. The university of chiba in japan. And this futuristic looking greenhouse experiments with vertical vegetable called to are being conducted professor to you. Keith invented this method in the 1970 s. Back then he initially had problems finding the right light and had high electricity costs. The breakthrough came with Technology Workers from google. Originally i wanted to help the Small Farmers who own small land parcels, cheese straight vertical farming enables one to achieve 100. 00 times more. And you will harvest on a single area than with conventional farming. He mushed up, so its worth investing in such vegetable factories. These facilities can be set up anywhere. Its an important step towards Sustainable Agriculture school. There are no losses during the harvest, and we use less energy for transport. Productivity and profitability can be increased even further with the latest technology. For those who look at this method is mainly used for feds to post in salads. As far as staple foods go, such as cereals or potatoes, more research is still needed. To know who should go to school in japan after the cuckoo shima catastrophe. There was a lot of interest in these new greenhouses because it is possible to produce all year round regardless of external influences. Got it from the store methods, not the farmers have a stable production without damage from insects or warms the fish and of course, the system is sustainable. When you can run these vegetable factories in the middle of the city and produce local food as needed from the books. The contrast agriculture and the fields. Once again, the farmer stock watcher, a lot of watcher and the weather is much too hot. Temperatures of up to 40 degrees celsius can dry up the soil to 2 meters. Deep large parts of germany are affected by drought in the summer. There is all to can be the total loss of the harvest was high financial losses. Can harden and brandenburg as one of the farmers who suffer. He grows potatoes and corn. His farm is located in an area with light, dry soil. Without the help of expensive irrigation systems, nothing will grow on his farm. The water already needs to be pumped from deep underground, and climate experts predict that even more extreme dry periods are expected. And well, the good in bordeaux called that if you look at the ground here, there is no moisture, no longer can survive the fall. Thats why theres not much on their plates. There are 2 miserable potatoes. There are a few more which might have been ok if they had an awful lot of last year we are having a very dry year. Again. Its only rained hard the amount that we normally would have had at this time of year or mazola, so dry from last year that even the little rain weve had over the last few days is not enough for the plants make. I will be fine since we are mia. But how can the farmers problems be solved . How can we ensure that food supply in the future is safe . The hunting and university in the netherlands is looking into these questions. At the renowned agricultural university, scientists are working on using new ideas and methods to finally defeat hunger in the 21st century. They are working on the assumption that in just 30 years, twice as much food will have to be produced as today. But the conditions for this have become worse, in order not to exacerbate the climate crisis, the area available for food cultivation should not increase the new methods are there for a new needed to produce food in the future. And stand in and as head of the plant science department, he understands how grave the situation is. So if we change nothing and we keep all consuming the way we are doing, if we dont optimize the way we produce our food, then for the next 40 years we will need to produce as much food as we did over the last 8000 years. And i think that gives a really good impression how big the challenge is to feed the world in 2050 with its huge greenhouses, the netherlands is the 2nd largest food exporter in the world and they take care of their resources, Vegetable Growers here, much less water to grow tomatoes and elsewhere. Thanks to new eric ation techniques. Our research is focusing on to produce more food, but at the same time to do it with less imports. So we need to produce more nutritious food, more safe food. And this challenge, more with less and better, is really the overarching theme of our research programs. This is how daily life looks in the spanish region. I marry under this sea of plastic tarp and then slice, europes largest special card artificially irrigated grown for exports. Millions of tons of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and other varieties are shipped from here mostly to germany. But intensive cultivation has its price. Pesticides and fertilizers contribute to the fact that hardly Anything Grows here outside the greenhouses. And the spanish french poor farmers are running out of water. The whole area is trying out the situation in africa is even more extreme, especially south of the sahara. There isnt an increase in weather catastrophes. Its almost impossible for the poor and hungry to lift themselves out of their misery without external help says the secretary general of german agro action zeidan yards wide. Since 2014, the number of hungry people has continued to rise. And currently 821000000 people suffer. But we can see quite clearly that about 30000000 people have been affected as a direct result of the Climate Change this claim of it personally and very acutely affected by this because the storms currently hitting these countries were previously completely unknown. And this is just such a sign of the Destructive Force that a change in climate contributed and how the people in the countries where we work are quite defenseless, and at the mercy of the elements also give us and catastrophes, drought, and floods destroying not only the Living Spaces of inhabitants, but also valuable agricultural land. Brandenburg for america in heart and consult his trap. Problems with technical help supported by the e. U. He never the less pessimistic about his future. Maclagan is ira geisha is the only way we can still grow things here. Your pride grain cultivation is actually not feasible anymore, and we are no longer competitive world. Why it would be reviewable to the potatoes that we irrigate are sold here in the region where we still have a market that we can sell to redeem recalled will be included back in japan at the companys spread and kyoto headquarters for the new world of agriculture spread as currently the Worlds Largest farm for vertical production. An employee of the company on her way to work. Her clothes are more similar to what people wear in an operating theatre than on an outdoor farm. Here hygiene regulations are very strict. All precautions are used to prevent germs from the outside, entering the production as the food should be clean and unspoiled. In this closed sterile environment, the plants grow without the use of pesticides and fertilizers. A good 50000. 00 heads of lettuce, leaves the factory every day. This hall is only used for packaging. Others are used for growing very special tools, including mushrooms and exotic herbs. The selection is large. None of the producers watched as their germs in the watch and that may cause the vegetables to spoil. Another advantage of this type of indoor farming is that the plants thrive on several floors above each other, and each very little value will floorspace the cultivation and some of the house is already fully automatic. Shinji not found at the factory 15 years ago. You could most older than me fact that Climate Change or the explosion of the worlds population was not a big issue. So do it, or was there a market for factory grown vegetables where you made more . But now we make a good profit. I dont think that factories will replace conventional farming completely and good, but i think that our way of farming will play a central role in 20 or 30 years to go there for we want to share the technology with poor countries so that they can produce their own food or so its a good deal. Stop this. I thanks to the short distances to supermarkets and restaurants. No goods are spoiled, train transport, unlike in conventional supply chains. On the other hand, conventional agriculture in japan is also in a deep crisis. Farmers use pesticides as a necessary tool and rice cultivation price, which is sacred to many japanese is heavily subsidized in japan. The market is largely protected by high customs duties. Price imports are considered an attack on cultural heritage. But the areas under cultivation are dwindling. The average size of a japanese farm is just 1. 00 hectares, which makes it difficult for farmers to make ends meet. That is why there are hardly any young People Farming was the average age of a farmer being 66 years old. Cooperatives are formed in many places in order to be able to far more effectively. But the increase in natural disasters is also causing them problems in the world. To avoid being held hostage by these changes, the farmer was inventive or will grow up and this is my aquaponics system, he proudly explains. And his small greenhouse, he is trying out a new form of agriculture aquaponics