Land grounds for concern at touchy topic here in germany is Intensive Farming take a train ride across the country and youll pass field off the field of crops often all the same the big forests long gone monocultures so void of biodiversity that even many animals have moved to the big cities for food but other factory farms that Dot The Landscape a solution to feeding the planet and its Exploding Population or just another way big business can squeeze profits out of the ground. These tomatoes are sold it weekly Farmers Markets or over the internet. For workers to hectors. This fruit and vegetable farmer recently took over the business she would like to buy more land but the prices of increased tenfold in just twenty. Heres Price Cutting going though david these are
region are on a buying spree and that bothers him then they dont have a gun i guess the Development Began and actually wasnt with the financial crisis when investors bought land it drove the prices up in one way were at an advantage because the value of our assets increased but of course we dont want to sell our assets we want to keep farming here i want to be on the show i thought i already have i have a few years of my shows me a list of the investors names for each operation they receive millions of euros in e. U. Subsidies. Among them are Investment FundsInternational Furniture retailers and Family Holding companies no one from the list once to comment on camera but one of them has told me that he owns Fifteen Thousand hectors that are worth One Hundred Seventy Million euros. For him this real estate means security in case of another financial. Crisis in germany the vast tracts of land are located in the eastern
have. Twenty five percent of agricultural real estate in Eastern Germany is already in the hands of corporations and Companies Based elsewhere many farmers are very angry at us the mother because it always leads to people with no ties to the region taking over and services from somewhere else in germany coming in would contain this and technology and doing work there and that leaving again on the high has no connection at all to the people in the region high enough ive been doing mention to know that you wont. Even use subsidies depend on the size of the land. So while major investors get millions not the end not only gets Three Hundred Sixty euros a year. She wishes the major landowners would receive less in grants and that the local small holders would get more. Benefits than anything they can if i say. But there are no longer enough people who understand the system and
the iceland lake itself created from a large north sea bay through the construction of dikes and lots of pumping. Southern and eastern flavor land together make up the Worlds LargestArtificial Island covering almost a thousand square kilometers about Three Hundred Forty Thousand people live there. You can see the miracle. When you meet people from abroad you know. Like americans and japanese who are. There are perplex but we are living so deeply on the sea level that they are you afraid to die to break over not afraid because you have to go through it which it doesnt happen. The city of amsterdam is also getting bigger literally this is Central Island one of several reclaimed from i mail lake and its still growing the plan is for eight thousand
new homes here including social housing. Building the island and providing utilities is said to cost Two Hundred Million euros. Saddams evil people are moving to the big cities such as amsterdam or space is in short supply we have an opportunity to create new living space after bangladesh The Netherlands is the most densely populated. In the world from the vehicles. And the new housing under construction it will be affordable compared to the inner city because its on the city limits. Hope for a price. A number of islands in the market for new housing are under construction. Thats small scale so as to preserve the environment. The more the sea is left alone the better. The land we live on is becoming ever more valuable and so are the homes we live in four walls and the fittings inside them are at best that Skill Craftspeople make where we live look the way we wanted to a highly sought after but talent is in short supply and International Survey shows that forty five percent of employees are having difficulties filling roles the problem is least acute in china and especially urgent in japan. Here in germany fifty one percent of employers complain about a Skills Shortage and most of that in the work of Master Craftspeople is high quality and long lasting take handmade Hardwood Flooring walk over a bare foot and youll literally feel the difference time for me to hand the floor to the experts. This engineered Wood Flooring is a luxury product its finished by hand this is. Cant smooth the surface or
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space the ground we occupied means Different Things to different people once when metre of land can be of great or negligible value in economic and emotional times it depends who you are ask people in uganda The Netherlands and germany reflect on what it means to them. Eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat. Eat your guy like to have my feet on dry land and in The Netherlands we have a lot of water not say in The Netherlands used to be sixty percent water and assess the poor fence right now im standing on a piece of land an honest fort where i live there and they use it ignatov i wasnt
born here i moved here and it would be nice if i died here one day and bill i think he found. A. Firearm or subsistence while more. I own this round i was going given to me by my parents my dad. And its very important to know we have we have food for consumption at home. Were in the center of nuremberg and that brought the most boys the restaurants. We rent this place so we can serve our guests here in the middle of the city. One point Three Billion sausages are produced in nuremberg every year. If you tied all these little brought those together they go three and a half times around the earth. In hong kong lent is in desperately short supply big families often have to share tiny flat out of sheer necessity and a force to pay out rageous rents german tech entrepreneur. Explores a world beyond the citys Dancing Skyline to find out how people deal with the cramped conditions both at home and work. In them. And the way its short its like as if you would be the person being. This photos its like you can really have seen. In the screen. This is kind of. Your. Life in hong kong behind the facades of the skyscrapers lies a Shadow World Entrepreneurs for just thats not has been traveling through asia talking to people about the global phenomenon of otherness ation. A social worker has brought him to. Its a part one block which the landlord has subdivided into miniscule units theres barely space to move. Sometimes he hears some smart people on the phone and sitting. There rent amounts to over One Hundred Eighty years a month can i ask you how big this room was this is the less than thirty. Minutes yeah. Yeah. Yeah i talked with him about snooze on but i think its pretty
hard on the thirteen year old son. He realizes the situation is difficult. He told me its all good with his friends and because you cant invite them home to three square metres of space at all. Threw it out leads to social problems for him like getting locked out of business with. Me. He cant just bring his friends home in a normal way to play Computer Games say been on the computer for. The past month what were seeing here is the effect Rental Prices can have on the lives of people who dont earn enough money to afford a decent life. Missile on this record for being on the engine is moving to. Come calling is one of the most expensive cities in the world the Financial Services hub attracts millions of workers and the cramped Living Conditions take their toll says Architect Vicky chan. If you look around people like you can see
a lot of people smiling people generally kind of unhappy one in seven people actually has Mental Illness here not because theyre stressed out at their first. So sometimes it is not so much about the physical imo its also like the mental part of it. How to make cities more livable places in the future to kichan focuses on green living bringing nature back to the Concrete Jungle Making Building Sustainable and Energy Efficient the architect founded his business with a small team he has an office in new york and one here in hong kong. Is easier than ever. But implementing his ideas requires a new approach to Urban Planning. To make a sustainable city i believe its very important to pick the record that people can
use their creative freedom to generate a space that they want thats the journeymen but theres a serious lack of Affordable Housing in hong kong at least Two Hundred Thousand people live in appallingly cramped conditions. You know why actually even those people there in hong kong then not everyone they know about the situation of the poor and then some people they even dont believe there should be a people there theyve been very well conditions it was new to the german Startup Founder to. Run the world yeah yeah it we have that measure here but its a they are a bigger size its bigger we try yeah i already have it a bit because. Its very different from what hes used to. And youll be a mentor to all your face youre there so they are with us so many feel face were all full youve earned there you have less space because the media story is yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah. Tiny accommodations can mean Big Business Entrepreneur Eric One presents the seat capsule he developed it has wife i t. V. And Air Conditioning and its even said to be Earthquake Proof the book says im mainly sold to hotels in asia. It is all i came up with the idea because im from hong kong where the room is a really small they audit is on the whole site i asked myself how theres no rooms could be made more pleasant especially in the evening and. I had an active imagination as a kid i used to imagine flying to space for calculus the first version of the bed culture was very simple natural language and i developed it and this is the latest
generation almost all the devices in the commit controlled by mobile phone are so. I dont just make a box of money i give you box to tell me that this is your new school. And this is exactly what we have. Vicki chante to schoolchildren on a voluntary basis about architecture and Urban Planning for it just goes along to attend one of the lessons. The architect wants to encourage the children to come up with their own designs for living solutions. And what it cannot support and that the children have so many great ideas this is a lot of them arent realistic but still its good and healthy to question things that have always been the same. Doctor targets on feel icky chan often mentions the concept of copy and paste architecture so that because its
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