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Singapore鈥檚 Bold Plan to Build the Farms of the Future - YouTube
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this
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is the singapore that we all know it's
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modern
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futuristic incredibly green and home
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some of our world's most
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impressive buildings from airports to
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hotels and
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even floating apple stores but there's
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one thing
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you won't really find here
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farmland
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singapore currently imports 90 of its
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food supply
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that means when something like say a
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global pandemic or geopolitical tensions
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disrupt the supply chain
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being able to produce your own food
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within your own borders
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suddenly becomes really important
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to make its food supply more resilient
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the singaporean government has laid out
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an ambitious goal
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produce 30 of its own food by 2030
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but unused land in singapore is hard to
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come by
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so urban farms are popping up inside
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outside and
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everywhere in between as the world's
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urban population continues to grow
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these might just be the farms of the
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future and construction will need to
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know how to build them
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today singapore's population is 100
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urbanized and traditional farmland makes
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up just one percent of the city's
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landmass
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but it hasn't always been this way
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agriculture has never been a huge part
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of singapore's economy
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in the 1960s it accounted for around
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four percent of gdp
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but as singapore continued to invest in
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urban development
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economic focus shifted away from farming
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and towards manufacturing
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and by the early 2000s agriculture's
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role in singapore's economy was almost
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non-existent we have lost
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probably generations of knowledge and
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also
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participation in in food production uh
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in you know in our country so i wanted
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to see what i could do
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to sort of really like that a little bit
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that's bjorn lowe a digital marketer
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turned urban farmer
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who co-founded edible garden city
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we've built 260 edible gardens in
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singapore
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whether it's for homes hotels
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restaurants on top of shopping malls
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in schools and then in a lot of
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various underutilized land around the
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city
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over the last decade bjorn has seen the
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sector shift from being led by smaller
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farmers like himself
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to getting major government and industry
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investment so
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you have a lot of big commercial players
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coming in
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whether it's from the fish farms or the
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egg farms
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you know we you have uh technology
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providers coming from holland
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uh from japan wanting to use singapore
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as
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a platform as a launch pad for their
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technology
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it has become a well oiled ecosystem
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or almost an ecosystem at this point
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in a sense the groundwork has already
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been laid for edible landscaping in
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singapore
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thanks to a 2009 city planning policy
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called
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lush which stands for landscaping for
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urban spaces and high rises
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it requires developers to incorporate
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greenery into their plans and has helped
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give rise to a massive landscaping
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industry in the city in 2017
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lush was updated to include a provision
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that allowed rooftop farms
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to count towards the required landscape
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replacement area of a building
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now with the government's 30 by 30 push
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to produce more of its own food
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urban farming looking like it could have
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its own renaissance building
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quite literally on top of the success of
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lush
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so singapore is looking at a strategy of
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increasing production from that one
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percent of land
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true technology approaches whether it's
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building vertical farms
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factory indoor farms battery farm
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production systems for eggs
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and intensive agriculture systems
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right now you're probably picturing
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something like this and to some degree
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you're right
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indoor farming is part of singapore's
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plan artisan green grows spinach in a
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controlled indoor environment using
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water instead of soil and pesticides
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everything from the light to the
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temperature can be optimized for the
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specific crops
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sky greens uses hydraulic power to
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rotate and irrigate crops in modular
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vertical frames
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the racks can be stacked up to 9 meters
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and housed in outdoor greenhouses
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but while controlled environments can
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help avoid some of the pitfalls of
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traditional farming like
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water pollution caused by pesticide
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runoff the process can be quite
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energy intensive and after labor energy
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and technology costs it can be hard for
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urban farmers to compete with the price
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of imports
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we know that the food system is
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challenged because
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of the approaches of industrialized
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production by creating control
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environment agriculture
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warehouses of plant factories for
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example
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we're falling back into the same space
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so while once we have that as one
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approach
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which is highly publicized and focused
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on
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we need alternative approach to that
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one alternative to growing crops inside
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buildings is to simply build farms on
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top of them
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in partnership with the singapore food
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agency city cityponix opened a pilot
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commercial farm on the rooftop of a
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multi-story car park
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where it grows lettuce spinach and basil
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or basil if you're watching in the u.s
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using its hydroponic vertical farming
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racks and
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edible garden city has designed urban
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farms to live on top of shopping malls
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car parks and even in an unused outdoor
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jacuzzi
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the government's making more space
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available for larger scale farms too
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since 2020 it's offered up to at least
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16 carpark rooftop sites to be rented
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out for three years as urban farms
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in addition to contributing to the 30 by
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30 goal the government said urban farms
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can also help to cool the city through
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rooftop greenery design firms are also
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looking to the urban island as they
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think about the future of sustainable
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design
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gensler's come up with ideas to
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incorporate farming solutions into park
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benches
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building facades and even ceilings and
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arab visited singapore back in 2019 to
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explore the future of urban agriculture
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but when it comes to urban farming going
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from concept to construction
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is only half the battle the biggest
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challenge of all may be getting people
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to
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actually eat the food especially when it
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comes with a higher price tag
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it really requires everyone to
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participate in it
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right whether it is growing that leafy
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greens at home and understanding that
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process
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or then starting community farms within
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you know their hdb
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blocks to drive a community effort to
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food growing
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i think that is that is really important
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because we may never hit the 30 by 30 if
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we don't have a whole society approach
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because industry can only do that much
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government can only do that much
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so everyone needs to participate
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singapore
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isn't the first to turn to urban farming
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in the 1990s cuba began building its
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own urban farming infrastructure out of
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necessity because of the collapse of the
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soviet union which led the country to
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lose roughly half of its oil imports
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and today cities including sao paulo
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seoul and tokyo
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all have their own urban farming
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initiatives
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what makes singapore unique is that it's
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essentially building an agriculture
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industry from the ground up
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what if we can develop and maintain a
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purposeful landscape or
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edible landscape and if we can start to
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build a landscape
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nutritional index instead of how much
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greenery there is we can start to count
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how much carbohydrates
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there is in this given development uh
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how much protein are we producing from
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the root vegetables or or the moringa
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tree
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the leaves are high in protein it can
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become
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a later food bank to build a layer of
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resiliency
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for the state and that potentially can
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get us
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to hitting the 30 by by 2030.
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right now singapore is a kind of test
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case for modern day urban farming
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if it takes off then it could serve as a
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blueprint for how we build the food
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resilient cities of the future
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but only if everyone gets on board
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