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L’agriculture pour sauver la planète, la vie, sauver les Hommes | Félix Noblia | TEDxAgroSupDijon


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hello when I started my job
of farmer ten years ago I made a
dream
and this dream was that farmers
were happy and fulfilled to exercise
their occupation of farmer and the lé
saviors of humanity
wow savior of humanity why
because the poultry farmers were able
to play and bring back the
biodiversity was able to bring the
health in our plates were
able to clean up the water is filtered
water and above all was able to
store carbon
wow storing carbon stored the co2
emitted by fossil fuels
why how, but in fact
farmers are the only ones who know
playing with plant genius does the
plant genius it’s plants and so
plants are able to capture the
carbon from the air to turn it into
plant this plant when it will die
it will turn into humus and soil
will store humus so the plants
and the savior plant genius of
mankind
there are about ten years I’ve done t
a little more is still a little student
rebel not really good pupil not very
adapted to the system or rather the system
bada term is
I did a scientific course and
especially in this scientific course
I learned the cycle of water cycles
carbon cycles of the zot all of that
and across this course I also
is a first year of medicine and
in this first year of medicine
I learned that the eight diseases
chronic most important cancer
Alzheimer Parkinson Diabetes And Society
the number of cases was multiplied by 20
the last 30 years and their age
triggering means is advanced by 20
years have triggered these diseases 20 years
earlier but I also learned that the
of food we were doing our
first medicine
so there are things that did not flow there
and I thought to myself how
that farmer I will be able to
produce healthy food produce in
respecting nature and producing a price
affordable for the consumer how
I could put this dream into practice
so I thought things would be
simple that I will do that simply
it was going to do it actually it’s
super awesome thing with nature
it’s always
bring back our enthusiasm to
humility and she teaches us
humility
so there at that time things
were not simple so let’s go back to our
sheep rather a book what I am
also breeder and when I took this
farm I did a lot of borrowing for
buy the flock because I do not
am not a farmer’s son and so for
buy the herd buy the livestock
it was a bit complicated and after
but here we had to renew the
equipment it was necessary to pay the farms
I had the bank really repaid
things were very complicated there
I had a difficult time
and after that we had to deal with
cows and cows actually were
often sick there often went a lot
worries and then I asked myself
what are the worries they
have my cows and what is she
eat my cows question what is that
it works grass herbivores
that’s it, but my cows are eating
seeds they ate from
silage is fermented cereals
she was eating a little grass too but
there were a lot of worries we’re going
do a discussion but what is
the omega 3 levels of our brains have
halved in 50 years why
is it 50 years ago people
ate more fatty fish over
sushi that was it surely actually there is
50 years the cows the herbivores eat
more grass so the herbivores eat
grass that is to say that meat
that we ate were meats that
was where the cows had eaten
grass and milk and cheeses all
dairy products like angers
it was cow’s milk that ate
plus the latter so is there the question
how is it done to be
as productive with grass because
that it’s all well and good, but the
health one does not produce so in fact in
1957 there is a guy who wrote a book
at the time when English was cheap
and by the time it was the beginning of the
industrial Revolution
this guy he did a collection of everything
happened before in the teeth
all the studies of the abbeys and
campaign and so is it in there he believed
that he mixed all that and he established
principles of something that
is called dynamic rotating pasture
and its principles of rotational grazing
dynamic is that we will take
animals a lot of animals on a whole
small area that will work on
a tendency to him past can be a
input axis very short and staying
very little time on this surface
they will eat all the help and they
will change places after and it’s going
leave the grass time to grow back
so every time the flock goes
come back he’s going to eat grass at the stadium
optimal
little anecdote this gala he is it’s a
international heroes in all countries
of grazing whether uruguay be
the new zealand it is
Australia is here but in France
nobody knows what you do not know
is not yet and so that reproduces the
herd behavior in the
savannah
so in fact we can see the cows that
walk all the way upside down
they ate the lack I eat it
and so that’s where it starts
to be interesting is that are all the
time eating it tramples
the more they are walking around
to search for food and so
they do more damage
what is it like consequences on
productivity on production this
system
so we talked about animal health
and men’s health this system
turns out that the plant plant laird for
get to push a certain
amount to more identity
how are we going to let her push back more
she’s going to make more roots by doing
more roots will allow the water to
infiltrate more into the soil and other
thing is that animals by defecating
quite randomly on the
plot will also allow the worms
of earth to feed a little more the
system is so by feeding a little
the more this system we realize that
the rates of the soil must rate of material
organic soil of these systems the
increases
in fact with these systems there we are
able to capture carbon this is it
again we have breeding systems that
fight against global warming
so that’s starting to be interesting
but this is this breeding system
that is to say, it must be mastered
well is actually the productivity of
meadows at the hands of every year good
Now cultures when I
taken over the farm
it looked a bit like that ie
that work the soil and when we
works and the ground in little anecdote
compared to the soil work is what
you think
how is the cradle of
first civilizations
the fertile crescent started after 8000
years of farming it’s fertile is this
that you think they built the
pyramids in the desert ben no actually
it was hyper green formerly and in
working the soil we will break the
biological systems that allow for
hold back the earth is systematically
when there is a storm
when you see a brown river
when you pass by a river
brown is the land of the fields
agricultural who waxed who left and
hunt down agricultural desharles this is
always the best land is the
most fertile part and in fact we have
over 300 cases the andouilles with this
system there ie our
agricultural system what they managed to
do in eight thousand years no one is going
to do the same thing in 300 years
so if we do not want them to have
desert it’s over
so there are things that were pretty
difficult in my journey and
especially in relation to plowing in
so does what you saw especially
slides it’s plowing so is the
plow it
the act of returning the soil poses quite a lot
of worries is actually a day in 2000
years still it’s my uncle who
plowed and one day in 2011
so the fluff and that’s the act of your
true nose in 2011 there is a plot
agreement quite far from the farm at
work and I told him wonder if he
can go as usual and everything and
then not at all want to go so he
tell me you’re doing was peasant or
kill parents I had never driven
the plow made with the treaty with the
plow and to the charge in fact at each
end of the line you have to turn it to
resume the line in the other direction and
there it was pretty important slopes
and many times I almost capsized
I almost turned around and I
said I ‘m not going to kill myself to that ever again
when what is the job of
farmer is that it ‘s plowed
or is it knowing the soils
know biology know l
agronomy and there I said to myself I’m going
to pass simplified soil work so
I decreased the depth of soil
worked and decreasing the depth
of soil worked there I told myself that
I was going to reduce the ground work
reduce phyto reduce pesticides
etc. it was going to be fine
good there it’s not great well done
but whose lucky class I have
is that parallel to that we have
started to set up with at home
Basque the chance to be in a
territory activists a band of
fellow farmers and a structure
local accompaniment called
rachel j
we started to put in place
shortage value chains so we
did the local father made barley
local to make local beer has
not bad battle so that’s it
allowed to have prices a little more
important for the valuation of
products then that’s also going to have to h in
get out of the monoculture so to do
a diversity of cultures and so after
the fact that things have not happened
as well past when I was doing my
reduced tillage by reducing
Phyto reducing the English and company
but I got myself I realized that he
missing a missing key a
gigantic key
the key was agronomy there is some
thing to remember and it’s not
valid only for the
and culture is that we must not
build nature as work
our thoughts but we have to build
our thoughts as nature works
so after I went to direct seeding
direct seeding what is it without
transition
we are going to cough plants
who will come to feed the soil feed the
soil biology that will work at
our place but I roll this
called plant cover because
I’m in bio now so I have
wanted right to chemistry then we’re going
use a planter that will position the
seed inside this mulch the
mulching will die will break down
will gradually feed the system and
the thumb culture through and protect
the soil is protected and so that’s a
soybean cultivation with a very high
performance and especially the advantage of this
system there is that it costs very little
expensive to put in place
there is no mechanical weeding that
not that we are sure about 10
liters 13 liters of diesel ha haulage
included compared to some organic systems
which are at 120 liters
so we spend a lot less
fossil fuels to produce these
things there
now you are a little worm of
earth what do you prefer you
prefer when you return your
house every year 1 so you prefer
it must be rebuilt and replaced
not simple you prefer that when you
just remove the roof but for
rebuild the roof or you prefer
when you leave it to protect yourself
against the aggressions of the sun of the
rain of various and traditions
what is good but there the worm of
earth says it’s cool but it’s
kind to me
that’s it but it’s not enough so
it’s not enough
it’s actually biology and this
biodiversity so that they work for
me because it’s not that I work
the more soil is that it is biology
who will work in my place it starts
to be a little more interesting but for
that it works you have to feed it
and so we will feed the soil for
feed the plants to feed the
men
and that with a diversified food
you will eat you 365 days a year a
morning noon and evening fries at the end
of a moment it will be difficult to
to digest the soil is paris if we want
it works properly it must be
feed with diverse food so
you need case shots
pollinators of the plants that are going
go with very deep roots
in the bottom of the profile it takes
plants that captures what is free
in the air we saw that it captures and
co2 but it can also capture the zot
air and nitrogen compounds and so there are
some families of plants that captures
nitrogen so it avoids using nitrogen
synthesis will be in any case one in
the organic systems is mandatory at
summit so here is a need for diversity
of plant families and so from
not a diversity of plant families
we find biodiversity
auxiliaries who will make us
ecosystem services
it means everything that is alive in
the soil will accompany the system of
production towards something
virtuous and so we will see some
mushrooms in case here we are a photo
of mushroom filaments that
multiplies by five thousand the capacity
root absorption we have
carabins who are going to go destroy the
slugs we have who will eat stocks
of seeds it is the small critters
in the upper right there are plenty of
diversity that appears and which we
therefore render services following
all that is
than on health by setting up these
systems are in tents that are
richer in antioxidants is more
rich in trace elements because its
better nourished by the soil system and
when the top is leached into a field
work and they do not leave that nitrogen
phosphorus and mate and potash there
everywhere the trace elements too is
so there we must avoid leaks
in the systems then we have an impact
colossal on batch lot will infiltrate to
infiltrate deeply into the profile
roots will allow plants
the restaurants allow the water to
go down very deeply is actually
going down the ground very deeply
will be able to store more water
so less need for irrigation more than
resilience and adaptability compared
to extreme events and changed the
plant cover also protects the
surface compared to elevations of
temperature also soil biology is
able to clean up the water but actually
what interests us is that of our
side we used less energy
fossils but here today in one
traditional farming system that is
responsible for between 30 % and 40% of
greenhouse gas emissions so
we are at war we warn against
global warming
if we do not change to start with the
agricultural model
we’re all done we lost the war
but we can win it and we can
win this war why because
this system soil when we will let him
humus on the surface and we go –
decapitalize the organic matter in
the soil by stopping the tillage and
using sowing techniques
live under cover by doing these
systems there we are able to store some
carbon stored carbon
this is called plan 4 for
a thousand you can find that on the
United Nations website is a rate
annual growth of the carbon stock
in soils of 0 4% or 4 per 1000
per year stops the increase
of the concentration of CO2 in
the atmosphere related to human activities
this plan is called balances for the
food security and climate
guys who have been doing this for 20 years they are
not 4 for a thousand they are at 25 for
a thousand we can do it we know how to do it
now we have to switch and so what
system there all this is agroecology
for the first time in the history of
humanity we know how to produce
food in large quantities having
a positive impact on our
environment and agroecology it’s
really the only hope of survival of the
life is the only hope of survival of
our species
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