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Food Security: A Growing Dilemma

28 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Climate change, the war in Ukraine, and a growing global population are exposing how fragile modern food supply chains really are, and this DW film tours the people trying to build alternatives. In Copenhagen, Anders Riemann runs Nordic Harvest, a carbon-neutral vertical farm stacked fourteen stories high that produces 800 kilograms of lettuce a week, which he argues should become standard urban infrastructure. In eastern Germany, agricultural scientist Urte Grauwinkel tests chickpeas, millet, amaranth, quinoa and hemp to find crops suited to the region's shifting climate and to cut reliance on imports. Off Europe's coasts, former soft-drink executive Joost Wouters runs the Seaweed Company, linking seaweed farmers to food manufacturers in a push to make the crop a mainstream protein source rather than a niche import. The film moves between these three ventures with plain narration and on-site interviews, weighing whether vertical farms, adapted staple crops, and ocean farming can actually scale up fast enough to matter, or whether they remain promising experiments on the margins of a much larger system.