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Can Urban Farms Feed a Hungry World? | Jayden Koay | TEDxTARUC


my talk today is nothing strange right
than the food and the future all right
so the questions today is can urban
farms be a hungry world all right
and a hungry world is going hungry more
hungry and even more hungry all right so
as we knows that the word populations
today sees a seven point seven billion
stood a correct and it’s never expect us
to achieve sniper six billion of world
populations by the year of 2:05 you all
right so what that means when we’ve
achieved to zero five zero by the
nyquist experience upper populations how
do we feed these people
all right and also as we know but the
coming fifty years the food consumption
by the human race will be more as
compared to the past thousand years all
right
and when we have these amount of people
seventy percent of these peoples your
times to move into the city area press
will eat yourself into another problems
which is the organization’s problems
right when we have more people living in
the city we have more and more city area
and we have lesser and lesser farmable
land as well as they are getting further
and further away from us all right so
that is the problems are actually when
it back further and put us away from us
right we are introducing herself into
more carbon footprints delivering the
foods back into the city all right so as
we need more 70% small foods come back
to today right to fit that amount of
populations
eighty percent of the coffee with that
lab has been used right which it means
that we have no way to go right and food
security becomes an issue
all right besides that we do have
problems in door from inconsistent
climate as well
all right guys all we knows we are not
able to control weather all right we’re
not able to control weather and when we
don’t control whether we even get
ourselves even worse today in predicting
weathers or I used to tell everyone said
the past two years is the best Chinese
new ever all right why because usually
when we got visitors
you know already the house is going to
be very hot and not sweaty and some
things but the past 2 days is the
reigning Chinese New Year so it was the
best one is there ever all right but we
come into our problems when you have
inconsistent climate and weather right
we have problems in dome of the
stability of food productions so
sometimes you have something it doesn’t
have something you have you have always
supply and sometimes you have other
demands problems and that is where you
impact the price of the food itself
all right so when we are speaking about
food is some things that we need right
it’s not about I do next right something
that we need so you’ve been doesn’t have
the ability to control what we means
that is one problems all right
so combining all these problems in older
populations the lesser and lesser over
the land we have more and more problems
in the law inconsistent climates and
unstability in term of reproductions
combining modest problems we have issue
in LED or open access to a phone is
getting more and more tedious rather not
able to get fresh and healthy vegetable
to be right and in Malaysia we are
depending very much fun
further pumps like the caverns Islands
and them together right utilizations in
term of land correct when they are
lesser from the land how do we utilize
this piece of resources in terms of land
in term of clear water in doing foot
productions and with based problem
instability right combining all of these
together we have bigger problems which
is the food security all right so how do
we do input security problems today when
we have one more City area where nowhere
to go but we never change the way we
produce our food right so as humans
moving diversity so we believe that the
solution is going to be inside the
cities right so we need to our challenge
is what if we bring farm into the city
right we believe that this is the only
solutions today the
you need to bring fun back into the city
creating the most sustainable way for
food productions the city which is able
to pick itself alright so by bringing
fun into the city we are trying to
distract arrested and tried the entire
supply change we no longer need to
depends on a lot of updating departs
from hospitals practiced Imaging’s
sorrel up today all right they are
buying Highland Street from Peninsula
right so we couldn’t imagine how these
vegetables need to travel through South
China Sea to serve others all right
Heidi Highland vegetable right so what
we can do is rebuild these local farms
local urban farms which is maybe not
even five miles away from you right so
that is correctly in producing output we
need to consume powerful fresh healthy
no pesticides and also we don’t
preservative thanks to dr.
dimensionsocks with us now
all right all right so speaking about
fresh and clean food all right from
fresh and clean food how do we maintain
for a how do men change the quality of
our food today right Marc assumptions if
he doesn’t make a change today we have
proven in some of the quality of output
yourself why because this could be me
harvest them right a vegetable from a
harvester it was starting grapes right
it’s not going to be as nutritious as it
was as he going to pass through a lot of
foot model right foot money means the
distance from the farm to the consumer
right so when we have bigger foot home
it means that you’re put grapes right so
when it reaches you the quality of the
food is not as it was right next problem
number one so problem number two it
might be not as safe as you think right
I often categorized these as process to
write to me or I open to direct them as
processbook while because these foods
are being processed
have a preservative works some magic has
been done so that it looks as fresh as
screen in the markets but we have no one
to blame because the consumer buying
those vegetables by how it looks right
so when is pretty your Bible right so we
are not the brain that is where the
quality of the food and the sickness or
put yourself species being an issue all
right not to forget some practice in
term of the horns in term of pastor the
Grove station of the vegetable Fraxel
just imagine today right when we have
whatever we are doing here today in kale
where we are building urban farms within
some of the significant city in Malaysia
right basically what we have today is in
Kuala Lumpur in Malacca in JB in Sarawak
and Internet all right so imagine if we
have this kind of urban farms we call it
the local farms where these farms are
being grown in dough right is clean and
the extra technique that we using today
is the more environment friendly
technique into law using zero percent of
soil
all right so we don’t when we are doing
so I responding it means that is a zero
soil planting no contamination soil all
right this is why we started City for
Malaysia right so we are here to inspire
mostly farmers with the ability to grow
locally from anywhere for more
sustainable future food right so what
they’re speaking out today is what is
the futures whole right how are we going
to deal with this amount of populations
how do we fit that all right if we have
the solutions in living vertically in
the city area so that is how our fast
going to be all right so and we are
focusing very much in indoor farming
right the reason why
require me focusing very much in terms
of indoor farming because the boss
doesn’t care
but then limit ourself where is after
promise of in Doha but we believe that a
few choice of indoor indoor house right
and also building in the house it means
that we are using water right we’re
using clean water as the main planting
agent as a monster soilless planting so
I display your planting and about a year
lease on it almost 90% of you being how
as compared to conventional farms which
hold only 60% a all right so speaking
about the resources clean water is a
very valuable resources to be and we are
lucky enough to be in Malaysia right so
because even our tap water is considered
soft water right so directly we can even
get water from a tap for our plantations
right so clean water is very very well
resources where we begin conventional
form is taking too much of these
resources for agriculture activities all
right so the problems here is you’re
feeding more of these resources to the
vegetable to the livestock than human
yourself all right so the solutions here
is when we have when we are talking
about the future of fun we need to go
into nowhere but two solutions we either
utilize the clean water are we going to
circulate them right so as I thinks
typical Malaysian always share the same
memory we know hydroponics right and how
do we know that I believe those under 20
years oh I think you might might never
seen that before
right so 20 years back the pontifical
relation we share the same memory we
know hydroponic to a vertical box right
yeah this policing on top you have
course your neck pot you’re putting your
seeds there’s water in the bottom and
then you let it grow right that is how
we usually know hundred ponics right as
time passed it develops into a more
high-tech farming because we are
bringing them into the city area
creating a more sustained
come from and this way of bombings are
taking even less the Clean Water
Resources right it could be us like as
high as 95% less so what’s being used
for panting all right so for sure if you
hit the imagines what is an indoor
complex right inside the indoor families
is basically we have a lot of names for
that subhanak they kind of control from
some quarter pipe actually write some
content an indoor vertical bumps and
lots more zero has found we have a lot
of games product right so what is
basically an indoor fondues when you
imagine yourself inside an indoor
environment to say what we are here
today like there are buildings vertical
farms so this fox is actually growing
vertically and what they’re trying to
control in the climate control arm right
we are trying to control the temperature
they are controlling sunlight for
photosynthesis we are conferring the
humidity of this evening we are
controlling pests from entering the farm
we are controlling the finish level
inside the nutrient we are controlling
sleep the concentrations of these
nutrients inside the water and last but
not least even able to control carbon
dioxide indoor all right so as most of
us know plants these comment up sites to
leave right to grow right so that is all
the things that we are able to control
in an indoor climate control pump and
while some of them Colin the plant
factory right I believe this term is
very fun understood any of the tall one
is because time and today have more
knowledge in terms of urban farming
compared to us here and they are more
they’re having a higher health awareness
in their community right so why do they
call it the plant actually because this
form if you consistent opens all right I
believe anyone here if you listen you’re
a farmer to me right yo your buyer comes
to you and telling you that ok I want
one ton of vegetables
really three days our company one time
every two days all right and I believe
you are still the wholesaler to tell you
I need to look at the weather you don’t
have a stock right and the price would
be different right no one ever able to
do to commit right in terms of the
pricing of it that is where we think
that food productions need to be stable
so when as good as when you go fast or
the plant factories being here we are
able to secure a productions that is why
we call them a plaintiff actually right
and also these environments they are
actually using zero percent of pesticide
for a very simple reason because you
wouldn’t find past in cycling in Davao
right no pass no pesticide all right and
the second issue is in term of the
preservative why do we why why doesn’t
we use preservative for that all right
you’ll find a lot about family even from
my company right we are selling the
vegetable life all right well then
suddenly what do you have this father
how can we how we actually change the
way of eating today right
we’re supposed to consume them as fresh
as possible so nothing as fresh as a
living vegetable right so as good as
leaving it doesn’t need a preservative
for them right it must save on cost
right
okay so you know in a nutshell what
they’re trying to do here today is
basically bringing farm back into the
city
all right and some of you might even
learn to turn from revolutions so how is
it going to be a revolutionary mission
in terms of bringing farm into the city
making a city which is able to feed
itself
and we are getting ourself closer to a
sustainable city and also security in
term of food for of course in city farms
we believe the efforts and the
challenges coming along in Malaysia
specifically today right it’s more on
that know-how the technology and also
the industry right that is where the
companies has been do
in the past few years by getting more in
from know how the technologies in and
also most importantly we need to have
the industry here today in Malaysia
right because some might think that we
we have we spare base you have some of
these family land right it doesn’t mean
that it doesn’t have moral behavior like
yes I agree
we still have from the land but the
thing is we all need to get ourselves
ready for the deers to come right that
is where an industry start and we are
getting ourselves ready and also we
believe that the best way in marketing
the entire urban farms is true education
all right an education most powerful to
hear today in spreading is the entire
idea right to every Malaysian in terms
of getting a nervous everyone ready in
being a family so all right so you know
your food they’re able to grow your
yourself alright so speaking about the
future we talk very much about the
future and also it might be a solutions
to the future of food so some questions
already fine and my top are some
questions here is in order to maintain
the future of food right vehicle
opportunities coming along right it
might be a properly done adoptions how
do this the society the community adopt
to the entire way of farming the second
thing is one economics highly impacted
economics today right in tomorrow we
will need access to each and every
people right not only the region have
access to food and those who go Honduras
those the poorer one that’s going to be
affected right and something is more on
the ethical
of it right just imagine right if you
have means the future of all the states
not only the vegetable we might come
into a future of growing artificial like
me right so that is one huge challenge
that comes of every month so it is
ethical
to have the lab roaming right our
discretion to you but I think you’ll be
there in two years to come and that’s
momentum thank you [Applause]
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