What you forgot to consider or mention is that on a weight basis, rice has more calories than wheat or potatoes. In these densely populated regions, getting the most carbs out of each gram of food is vital to sustaining the populations, which rice does the best job hence. Hence why rice and not wheat is the staple in Asian countries.
Not to mention is, gigantic water supply in tropical region. I know water is scarce but everyday is raining like 5hour and little sunlight with cloud hanging around everyday in wet season, it's very hard to keep the soil dry tbh
2:30 I think the point being made here is that rice has the most potential to make an impact if we adopt enviromentally friendly forms of obtaining it. 2:02 The video did acknowledge the proportionate impact of rice compared to other foods.
@@anxiousearth680 its bizarre, i read up on it, some white guy in france "invented" rice techniques that we have been using since ancient china, transplanting, spacing and stuff, if you look close enough at the map they are presenting, only the west are refusing to use those method, peoples who dont use them in Asia are either growing dry rice or mixed crop(isn't that what you say is better 🥴?). We dont soak the whole season, i dont know why do they think we do that. Its not just rice that wet rice produce, its the snail, crab, shrimp, fish, eel and frogs. I dont think they mind changing their protein source to beef and pigs... But thats just madness, how destructive that will be for the environment? Now, numerous wild animals that evolve along human rely on wet rice... Frog, snail, fish, birds,... Seem like someone just need a scapegoat to scream "why aren't you WESTERN enough" at peoples. Sure, just keep hundreds of millions of animals safe for us, then feed us forever, we will stop doing it.
Perhaps, but per acre potatoes and corn have more calories than rice: 15 million calories per acre for potatoes and corn, versus 11 million calories per acre for rice.
The West can lobby as much as it wants, Asia is not giving up on rice, it's beyond food, it's part of our culture, tradition and a vital food source from the poorest to the richest. Yes, cultivation practices can be improved.
No one is saying you should. If you actually watched the video instead of being offended, you'd know that it offered solutions to make growing rice more sustainable.
@@anxiousearth680 the fact that a white show criticizing how Asians how they grow their food when they already have invented more innovative ways of culitivation is just pure racist in my opinion. Rice is the bond that unites all Asian culture.
I live in south east Asia near the equator, rice is the only viable crop compare to others like wheat and potato . Wheat and potato production requires colder climate around 20~24C which is not an option for many countries near the equator. No way we would give up our rice to please climate cultists. Our food security is at stake. Imagine if rice consumers switch to wheat, how crazy wheat prices would have been since more people will be competing for wheat in the international market, which is already at lower stock level due to Russia-Ukraine war.
I feel like the intentions of this guy weren't bad, but he's so disconnected from the reality of countries that has rice on it's core diet (like Brazil, where I'm from) that he ends up underestimate what this would mean to billions and billions of people.
So true. I m from eastern region of India and our main food is rice and we eat rice with almost every meal and eat rice everyday. The fact that the west consumes so much beef isn't discussed but it's the problem of Asia that the people eat. We value food a lot and that is the way we respect God Annapurna and food is the way we connect.
@@preranataylorsversion6883 You actually value food? That's interesting. Here in Kerala we don't value food at all. People go starving for weeks before they realize they haven't eaten in a while
@@preranataylorsversion6883 Do you realize that raising cattle for milk anyway and then not killing or eating them (and letting them wander the streets depositing dung and emitting methane) is needlessly bad for the planet?
@@rexsceleratorum1632rather targeting ordinary people & cattle u can focus on millionaires who use private Planes for 5 min ride. That causes more damage to environment than regular people. Kerala people are neither living in poverty nor dying of rice scarcity. Fake news
Rice fields produce so much food sources, like fish , crayfish, fresh water prawns , crabs , snail and many more . After harvest, the hay and grain shells are used for feeding farm animals . And rice literally feed half of the population . Because we only need water and fire to eat rice . A poor family survive only eating rice balls with salt . The problems you've mentioned are small compared to the benefits it brings .
We'll just ignore the wild disparity in energy consumption between the countries where rice is commonly grown and the industrialized nations like the one that is home to Deutsche Welle. This video is incredibly hypocritical. Germany needs to stop producing automobiles before we even begin to think about rice production in Southeast Asia.
The world needs to be look at Africa with something besides pity. We have like, your collective bioavailable land mass in open fucking farmland, we have minerals and ore galore But no, the west is letting China get the inroads here because I mean.. Come on. It's AFRICA right?
Yea they should just make one 72 hour video on the channel detailing all the problems contributing to climate change and the possible solutions for them
Here we go, blaming small issues instead of dealing with the underlying issue. Over consumption, literally we eat fast food 3 times a day, use single use plastics, constantly buying any and everything to self soothe.. But yeah it's the rice...🙄
it is not on the consumer to save the earth. our pollution is nothing compared to the pollution that oil companies make alone. it's propaganda, making us turn on each other instead of realizing that the oil companies who are actively refusing climate policies just to make more money. just look up the willow project. educate yourself instead of blaming it on everyone else.
Fun Fact: 100 corporations are responsible for 70% of all emissions and these companies use things like plastic straws/bags, carbon footprint, & individual responsibility to shift blame away from them and onto the common people so that corporations can keep polluting and deflect responsibility.
At the end of the day, when you look at which countries have the world's highest historical CO2 & methane per capita -- they're not from the rice producing nations.
I am from philippines, we try to grow potatoes here. you have no idea how small local grown potatoes compare to western ones. they also expensive. they are barely last a month without cold storage.
There are plenty of varieties of rice that can be grown without synthetic fertilizer and flooding. The problem isn't rice, it's multi national chemical companies who want to turn all the farm land into commodities to turn them profit. Small organic farmers who incorporate animals are not the enemy.
Theres a literal rice field behind my house. And every year since i was little, i watched each and every steps of our local farmers. What i find cool about their way of farming is that they dont burn the straws but instead let their cows graze on them and in return, they poop on the fields and thus fertilizing it. And not only cows but also some birds that feed on leftover grains and insects. I used to think that its a common practice because of how it doesnt waste nutrients...until i learned that some farmers burn their fields 🙁
Same. I live in Kashmir and we eat rice with every meal. I'm a farmer myself and we feed straws to our cows. It's actually a priced thing in our place. We get snowy winter and that straw becomes an important feed for cattle.
The reason why lots of farmer burnt their field is to (1) minimize cost of transporting the straws and (2) to turn it into mulch. I know some people think it's better to just let it be and use it as mulch, but those straws, when exposed to high humidity, might become the breeding ground for mushroom. That's why they just burn it on site. Ofc they left some of those straws as mulch for future use (for other crops), but the majority of them will be burned then mixed with the soil.
God controls the climate. Global warming and climate change don't change other than on Judgement Day when the angel pours down the bowl of flaming oil on the earth with thunder and lightning.
A correction: Corn has not been a staple food in the Chinese diet for thousands of years. It's not even a native plant, it was only introduced in the 1500s.
Also, potatoes will not grow well in rice growing areas. They're too hot and humid for potatoes. However sweet potatoes will grow very well in those areas. They're different plants and classified in different families despite the similar names.
We should fix the ways Europeans make wines, beers, cheeses, and sausages. Different from rices, people do not die without wines, beers, cheeses, sausages, etc. I can't believe DW made this video with no shame.
Correct.. they need beef everyday even if it is releasing highest green house gases, they need wines, beer ,etc even though we can leave without consuming it.. they never try to replace these drinks are sausage with staple crops and supply it African people who are starving for food.. They can't sacrifice luxury but others have to change whatever cheap staple food they are eating.
Rice contains the most calories when compared with wheat or potatoes. When farmers plant less rice, how do these countries replace the caloric deficit?
The video wasn't really suggesting for us to plant less rice. It was only mentioned for the sake of completion. Most of the suggestions have to do with either planting rice in a different way (but still the same amount of rice) or fixing the way we treat the waste that comes from rice farming (like what we do with the hay).
@@marioprawirosudiro7301 In that video they also suggest to replace rice with potatoes. While for many its been known that potatoes only have short life shelf in tropics, can't properly grown in lowland tropics, and it also create massive problem in mountains where they were planted.
We need less calories these days as we are getting it from other sources (corn, sugars, etc.). Obesity is now a growing issue in parts of Asia due to increasing use of motor vehicles for transport, and less physically demanding jobs.
One thing that's also overlooked: rice field has their own ecosystem. And in the past decades, rice farmers are far less dependent on artificial fertilizer compared to what they used before the year 2000. In East and South East Asia, there are more than just crops in the field. There are fishes, toads, snakes, and even crayfish. Much more live in the field. Most of these are attracted to pests that can disturb or even fail the rice growth, such as locusts, rats, and snails. Even the farmers learn to double their earnings by raising ducks, which easily sweep every inch of the field from pests and in return give the field a healthy natural fertilizer.
I'd like to see a follow up episode focusing on the work of Masanobu Fukuoka. He answered many of these questions decades ago, using regenerative methods, and it's a shame he wasn't mentioned here at all.
@@modemmann303 Bill Mollison is a legend for sure, but considering the topic of the video is specifically rice, that was Masanobu's area of expertise. Mollison is not necessarily pertinent on that topic.
@@taniam7609 Deutsche Welle? German foreign TV? Fukuoka is faar too excentric for their appearance I`d say. Aand there`s no comparison of crop-yield per square foot 😉
RICE supports more population than any other crops . Other factor is Rice can be converted into many forms which can be preserved for long which probably Germans don't know. 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇵🇰 🇹🇭 🇧🇩 - Almost 50% of worlds population consumes Rice for centuries .
That's exactly why it's helpful to try and improve how it is cultivated, it is such a massive part of agriculture that even small incremental improvements pay gargantuan dividends back to society
@@rorychivers8769 first western countries stop eating beef everyday which is emitting most green house gases in food industry then give lectures about other continent people food. What do you say? Also, western countries produce more pollution when compared with their population... Why don't you people stop using cars as daily transport even if you are traveling single? If all western countries people start using public transport and eat veggies then green house gases will be reduced to less than 50%. Practice it before preaching others.
@@rorychivers8769 Common sense tells me that there's no problem with rice to begin with,. if it was reliable for a thousand of years, then it not's a the problem but the change of the environment itself. Although even if we could say it could say it could contribute Methane or CO2, it isn't even it's fault. I'm pretty sure the world used to manage it's air content when there's still a lot of trees. Instead they resort on blaming rice when it's just a victim of the current situation.
@@rorychivers8769 Lol, you d*mbasses should know about the ground reality before barking. Rice is the most sustainable crop compared to the steaks and beef eaten in West. A better and sustainable way to fight climate change will be to eat less steaks.
@@satishk1375 All of those things are talked about at length in western countries and there are countless initiatives about that. Why are you acting as if nobody ever talks about meat consumption and cars?
What a hypocritical take on rice production. You talked about rice without even mentioning the IRRI (International Rice Research Institute). FYI, they already produced rice varieties that are drought-resistant, submergence-resistant, toxic soil resistant, among others. These varieties are already being planted and eaten by MILLIONS of ASIANS. A quick look on their website or even an interview from them could have remedied some of the misconceptions on this video. You also mentioned the greenhouse gas emission of rice production but you never discussed the humongous difference between the greenhouse gas yields between rice production and industrial machineries that power the west's economies. A little introspection could have help you arrive with the idea that MAYBE, the amount of greenhouse gas pumped by industrialized countries are EXPONENTIALLY FAR GREATER than that of rice production.
Exactly. In Malaysia, we are looking at increasing our rice production for domestic use, using technology and better policies. Paddy field burning happened in places where good policies are not enforced, it is not becauss of rice farming. DW always say they advocate for solution journalism but they did not give a single example of best practices by countries in Asia that have perfected rice farming as an eco-viable crop. Makes me feel this documentary is either badly researched or paid by big European lobby groups. Also, what's the deal with propagating Asians to rely on potatoes (??!). Potatoes can't last more than 1 week in hot and humid Southeast Asia climate before they start sprouting.
Uh, not yet done with the video, but I can say one thing. The thing about those drought, flood, toxic, climate, mountain resistant varieties is that none of them are high yield. At least not yet. I doubt they can shoulder the entire demand of the market as they are right now
You make a good point about the verities of rice not being mentioned. Your comparison of rice emissions to that of western industry is terrible. You are comparing two vastly different things. A better comparison would be rice emissions vs grains common in the west. Like corn or wheat.
I am pretty sure there are bigger factors to climate change than rice. The main reason why the total emissions for rice are so high is that so many people eat it. But there are other things which many people use that cause more pollution, and we would gain more by making those things more efficient, like traffic, heating, cooling and manufacturing. But foods are of course very important aswell.
climate change is a business idea. In simple words, it is used to sell you a product. It's not real, hell when London reached 40 degrees C, it was raining in Saudi, in the desert. Don't fall for crap. You're smarter than that.
Disappointing that you entirely skipped the most important and cheapest fix: mulch. Rice straw makes excellent mulch for crop seedlings in dryland cultivation. It's being used on small sustainable farms in India to maintain better soil moisture, suppress weeds, slowly build soil carbon levels and reduce emissions. No stubble burning, no need for trucking it away. The reason this isn't applied large scale is because colonial agronomists insisted upon heavy tillage, intensive harrowing and a "clean" seedbed with no organic debris on the surface. They believed this would reduce crop pests and diseases, allowing constant repetition of the same monocrop in the same field (as opposed to field rotation). They did not realize how destructive this method was for the soil microbiome and the network of subsoil fungi and bacteria that supported the soil structure and increased fertility for the crop roots. Eventually this destruction made synthetic fertilizers a requirement, ruined the capacity of the soil to retain moisture, and increased weed problems. Mulching with crop residue and a 3-5 season crop rotation fix all of these issues, and the regenerative agriculture communities in India are demonstrating this. It's a shame that in covering this topic, you completely overlooked the most essential, fastest, healthiest solution. It only requires educating the farmers and allowing them to grow multiple types of crops, (removing the government incentives that currently prevent this). It's cheap, farm friendly, planet friendly, and you didn't even mention it. Why? DW shows a constant bias for massively overcomplicated 'benevolent' intervention strategies that bypass better, lower-tech, native methods. It's basically white savior complex, applied to ecosystem welfare. Shame. Do your homework better.
The only reason this video is still up because RUclips remove the dislike button so channel like this can make video like this without being publicly shame
@@_TwinkCold? Dry? Well that's the problem then. FYI, in the humid tropics, "dank/ cold" places of storage are still very humid, and potatoes can easily spoil or sprout. DW suggesting to grow potatoes? Good luck to the farmers near the tropics then. DW's research at its best.
@@MrQwertypoiuyty DW didn't suggest potatoes. They suggested new growing methods to make rice produce less green house gasses like the potato. Though you should check out china's efforts to move away from rice towards the potato. The campaign started like 2014 but picked up steam 2017.
The problem for lack of better technique adoption is because most farmers are dependent on their farm yield. You could invite multiple noble prize awardee to explain long and wide even with excellent audio visual yet they won't simply adopt it. They need to grow rice to survive and they need a true and tried method to do so. Why would they listen to the people who live on horizon they won't ever see, who never grow a rice, and not depend their dear life on a harvest this season like them farmer do.
A lot of rural people in the West who work in forestry, agriculture, and depend on the land for food & produce have been complaining about this as well. The elite who live, play, & work in cities & university towns draft & impose policies with little regard of its feasibility & unintended impact in real life.
Hi Nini, that's a valid point. We have covered this already in our previous report, feel free to check it out if you haven't already! 📺 How the rich wreck the climate (and how to stop them) ruclips.net/video/PvPlCr_fPSA/видео.html Let us know what you think in the comments! 🌍
@@dave_sic1365 DW is a german media agency and a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) so dont be surprised if they come up with a documentary telling us why we should give up our private properties and start eating bugs to save the planet.
As rice replacement, potato has a short shelf life without refrigeration which lead to extra carbon footprint. Also you cannot just plant good potato variant from sub climate country to tropical climate country and expecting to have the same yield, temperature is affecting tube size by alot.
Potatoes need no refrigeration at all. Just throw them in a cold dark and dry place and nothing will happen to them. Of course grain is alot more stable but potatoes survive 1 to 2 years
@@dave_sic1365 I live in subtropical climate... it's a bit cooler than tropical climate, potato last less than a month. It doesn't hibernate, it just sprouts as fast as it can
@@dave_sic1365 just store the potatoes in the cellars he said. FYI, most of the households in the Asian tropical countries do not have cellars. For generations these wooden houses are built on stilts, to account for the possible flooding season and for ventilation. Even though most of the modern houses are built from concrete on the ground. We just don't have cellars built in. The philosophy is still the same as before, built away from the ground. Just in case of the monsoon season.
While I applaud the efforts to make growing food more sustainable, the issue of climate change needs to be dealt with in a way that doesn't burden individuals in poor countries. The fossil fuel industry, and adjacent polluters like airlines, producers of synthetic materials, automobiles and cement need to be stopped first.
And they are being - all of the things you cited _are_ the focus of of a lot of climate action. Emissions in most of the developed world peaked over a decade ago - they are still high on a per capita basis and there is obviously more to do, but the bulk of emissions in the 21st century won't be from the wealthiest countries, but rather populous middle-income/fast growing income countries like China and India. I understand the climate justice narrative, but ultimately, if we want to keep warming to below 2.5oC, wealthy countries alone emitting less _will not be sufficient_ . It doesn't matter if that's fair or not, it's the truth.
@@merrymachiavelli2041 not really, Indian/Chinese emissions are still western emissions just outsourced. Fashion industry being run from Europe is arguably one of the most useless industries for humans as whole. Majority of clothes production is not in Europe so doesn't show up as their emissions but the usage of those clothes is. Fact is, West wants to have their cake and eat it too which will not fly.
Yes, if we simply phased out dumping old carbon from millions of years ago into our current biosphere, we wouldn't have to worry about Methane or quibble over farming techniques! It is important to also phase out farming crops with chemicals in dead soils and to be storing carbon as compost and bio-matter in the soil. But we don't need a thousand tiny solutions that inconvenience everyone, we just need to stop adding extra carbon to our current biosphere and restore the quality of our soils. :)
Maybe there's no Big Rice lobby because they never expected anyone to bite the hand that feeds them. Dairy could disappear tomorrow and at most we'd lose a few beverages and pastries. Losing rice would be devastating.
@@someguy2135 "65% of the world's population is lactose intolerant". Now you gotta bring me some source for that lol coz to me that doesn't look to be a correct statement.
@@BatCaveOz your comment speaks a lot about white privilege and entitlement lmao you want a crop that feeds half the world's population to disappear than loose something that tastes good lmao.
10:30, the reason rice doesn't have a lobby industry seems interesting. It's mostly grown by numberous farmers holding small land in developing nations. Maybe I'm wrong?
No one is talking about it because it's not a problem here??? - Rains all the time; so paddies are a way to acclimatize to wet soil for actual farmland use to FEED US STARVING PEOPLE - Rice has the most calories per weight, so we can FEED PEOPLE EFFICIENTLY - Regenerative methods in reclaiming the soil HAS BEEN DONE and HAS WORKED in Japan, and is adopted in many Southeast Asian countries now too How did you not get a single Easterner's input in this video is actually beyond me. Talk about an echo chamber; you're doing the world a disservice by importing these non-ideals to places that actually know how to live and work with these feedstocks for centuries by now; and have solved much of their deficiencies within the past decade. Don't look at Co2 emissions for what they are, without seeing the context to them. Just like that past video of you giving crypto even a smidge of a platform, I think this one might be video to push me towards being finally done with you guys. Please do better.
And for a fact, that human have been growing rice for thousands of years , yet we still haven’t experienced a f*cling apocalypse despite the so called co2 emissions, really shows these over privileged folks in developed countries have no clue what they are talking about
Yeah, they are only doing this in the Western Part of View. If we are to go with Eastern Part of View. JUST EAT LESS BEEF AND SAVE THE PLANET instead of telling 3.5 Billion to go and starve.
Just for anyone who might be confused: Reducing rice consumption is NOT the answer. By doing that you might push them to more polluting foods like beef. Changing the way we grow it might be helpful. Another thing that will help is banning meats from all fast food chains, I'm not saying to ban meats, but to ban it for fast food. It will reduce HUGE amounts of emissions.
Rice and wheat yield a comparable amount of calories per unit weight but land yields the greatest quantity of rice per unit area, which is why the densest populated regions (the Valeriepieris circle) subsist largely on rice. Reducing waste is always better, but focusing on rice’s greenhouse gas emissions is strangely specific because all agriculture contributes to less than 10%, so rice alone is negligible compared to fossil fuels for electricity or transportation, manufacturing processes etc.
@@_Twink Excuse me, what is the numbers of calories per square hectare in your source is? And why does your statement contradict most of the sources I found on the internet and books about rice agriculture? Please send me the title of the scientific report so I can research more about it. I just want to satiate my curiosity so please really do send me the source. Also, in my humble opinion if rice have less calories per hectare, why would rice growing countries have much higher population density than wheat and potato growing countries since the ancient time? Demographic numbers don't lie. So, in my opinion there is a flaw in the statement where rice has less calories per square hectares, because high population density also happens in island countries like Indonesia where land is not as abundant as compared to the main continent of Europe or Asia. There might be a problem in the source that you got this information from.
@@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe12 dude, go ogle it, first response: *15.6 million calories per hectare for potatoes and 5.98 million calories per hectare for rice.* Just look at the massive population boon when potatoes were introduced to Ireland, or sweet potatoes to Asia. It's an inalienable fact you can't deny. Land makes more calories with potatoes then rice. I'd like to know where you say it doesn't? There's a reason around 2014 China was making a push to adapt the potato into society, they see it as the best food to maintain their booming population. Just look up "why the Chinese government wants it's people to eat more potato 🥔
@@Essentially_Nobody but the majority of the methane emissions come from the beef industry. Y not tackle that first? Y target the one crop that allows billions of people to escape starvation? Beef isn't an essential food source. Other meats especially chicken can provide nutrients too. Y not cut down, it find a way to make that more efficient? I think that's the primary direction of questioning people in the comments r trying to pursue. What thisvideo is saying isn't lies, but considering the region where rice is the main crop, it's impossible to enact sufficient changes, mostly due to the poverty of the farmers and their number.
Exactly! We don't tell the West what to do even if there is enormous amount of pollution, waste products and other practices that lead to climate change.
@@larryperlas7616 uhhm, the biggest polluters are 1. China 2. US 3. India 4. Russia. Where is that enormous amount of pollution originating from the West? It is in fact China alone that is responsible for the vast majority of pollution globally.
You don't seem to know what a monoculture is. A monoculture is when you farm only one type of plant on a field. If you plant only rice and nothing else, you have a monoculture. If you plant only sunflowers, you have a monoculture as well. Neither potaties, rice or sunflowers are a monoculture by definition. It depends how they are planted... basically every mass harvested crop is planted as a monoculture.
@@jonathantan2469 only when fucking drouts happen, potatoes in countries such as south east asia in which it's the most consumed per capita. Don't last long their duration could only hold for 2 months while rice can last for years.
No Big deal ,I know how a World Bank project had initiated a project to replace rice cultivars with Girkins and other crops generating high export values in the newly developed irrigated farmland back in 80-90's in Sri Lanka. Since there has been short supply of other grains over time, recently, they have initiated funding to renovate ancient water reservoirs, which they earlier advised better to be converted to lands to build factories, since the export crops they recommended to cultivate were consuming much less water than rice and reservoirs were of no use.
It's totally untrue that rice straw has so few applications. People have made all kinds of objects from straw for millenia, such as hats, sandals, rope, baskets and mattresses. You can also make dolls, huts, roof thatches and paper.
Potato can't replace rice in Asian cuisine. For example, You can't eat Chinese dishes on a bed of potato starch. They'll have to find ways to make potato resemble rice in texture.
I think potatoes aren't even a good solution practically, not right for the climate they are supposed to grow in. And people should be able to keep staple food ingredients that are major part of their cuisine. And also should not have to compromise their health and may do better physically with the food their ancestors ate. I saw someone mentioning they got rashes from potatoes for instance. Its ridiculous most westerners aren't willing to change their own food habits and still try to impose it on people from other countries, that are poorer and overall pollute less per person. (for context: Im from Europe. And I do eat meat, not willing to change that, I felt terrible on a plant bases diet. But I buy meat from brands that treat animals better)
As Indonesian I have tried to eat potatoes, oat meals, bread/sandwich, and even corn flake with milk for breakfast just like fellow westerner. But is doesn't works ! Rice is the best 😁😁
Potatoes are usually cooked deep fried. The oil comes from palm or grains from Europe or North America. How much carbon that production and commerce ad?
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Potatoes do not HAVE to be cooked deep fried, you can just boil them for example or bake in the oven. People should deep fry things less. But either way I dont think potatoes are a suitable replacement for rice in Asia
Not many people are talking about this because its not that important, we have way bigger issues that urgently need fixing, it's just not a top priority.
@@HarishBabuM are you serious?? Look around! So many people are starving to death for one, wars, Greedy governments, Corruption, human trafficking and the list goes on…. Rice gasses are the least of our issues… 🙄
@@rachelslade2908 While e.g. human trafficking is indeed a horrible thing that needs much improvement, it doesn't even get close to the climate crisis we are facing (which is undoubtably the SINGLE biggest thread humanity is facing). Your first point literally is people starving, which will get so much worse once large portions of the planet will dry out and become unhabitable. This is exactly what this video addresses. We live in a big and complex world, we can and have to address many problems in parallel.
@@ZwergDesign Also fixing things like war and corruption are so absurdly hard that we've barely been able to make a dent in them in the millennia that we've been trying to fix them (changing behavior like that is really hard). But solving the technical problem of making rice production produce less methane? So much easier and vastly much more feasible (while still an extremely valuable goal).
@@riggsmarkham922 i think while rice needs fixing it is still more efficient in feeding people. we should probably fix the meat industry since it emits way more while providing fewer calories
@@dave_sic1365 Americans use more cars & airplanes, eat beef, pork etc. If you're talking about heating, average home space also larger for Americans & has central heating.
Well this has a massive *You're wrong, we're right" energy. Rice growing countries have organizations that deal with these issues. And you didn't bother talking to them what they're researching and actually doing. And also, did you eat that rice you've been playing with and scattering all over the place for the video?
Honestly, I'm surprised that the video is lacking of research. Pretty much the waste of rice is being used from different thing in here. Like bruh, the straw is made into hat, bag, mat and something else while the hay os used for animal food.
One question 🙋🏻♀️ If potatoes is the better alternative, how are we going to deal with the leftovers, such as the stems and leaves, and how much greenhouse gases potatoes are going to emit if everyone shifts to consume it? Is it really a better solution after the cost of teaching the society to changing the direct into account? 🤔 ( purely wondering 💭 )
Rice have been around for thousand of years and we just have global warming recently. So, why change rice farming instead of rich country consume less luxury goods
Plus it takes less energy to cook rice than to bake or boil potatoes. Not to mention the west eats processed Potatoes and processed means more energy in processing and cold storage. And then theres oil, frying or roasting potatoes need oil. And 1 kilo of rice feeds around 10 people while 1 kilo of potatoes feeds 4 or 5. So we'll stick with rice. And you stop eating your burgers.
Why no one talking this? Because it's not important. Especially for developing countries that need to feed their population. Rice has at least 10-25% more calories than potato. So changing it is not an easy option. Also, potato are not that good planted in lower level altitude in tropical area. Which is most of rice plantation are.
@@Essentially_Nobody and yet, rice is directly consumed by human. It's basic necessity for large number of world population. It's not like soybeans or corn that most of its product are used for cattle consumption. And speaking of cattle products, most of world population can survive without it for weeks. But human cannot survive without basic necessity like rice for just couple of days.
@@Essentially_Nobody to be honest, it is not "way of life". Rice is basic necessity of life it self in most of Asian countries. Some, even eat it without any side dish. Just plain white rice to survive a single day. It is very different from meat. You can switch meat production method with lower risk because it is not basic necessity. But rice, one seasonal harvest failure can effect hundreds of million peoples. And some even can effect the survival of country as political entity itself.
@@Essentially_Nobody Again, to be honest. We are talking about milllion of people stapple food. You said that rice contributed to 12% of methane. Some sources mentions that just 7%. But anyway, methane contributed 17% of greenhouse effect. So, rice corps just contributed to less than 2 % of total greenhouse emission. But, there 3.5 billion people use rice as stapple food, more than half of the earth population. It is huge numbers. Meanwhile, landfills and garbage took more than 18% of global methane, more than double of rice production according to United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
@@Essentially_Nobody im not sure the world can focus on multiple issue regarding climate change. One example, the highest contributor to methane is meat. Everybody knows that. And meat is consume by mostly developed countries like US and EU. Almost countries that uses rice as stapple food eat less meat than those countries. In the last part of video, they mentioned that 10% rice lost as waste in some of East and SEA countries. So they want to growing less rice and use rice as efficient as we can. But, In the United States, for example, it is estimated that approximately 30% to 40% of the food supply is wasted, including meat. So, if developed country still waste their food like that. Why they want to mess with developing countries that already struggiling to meet their basic needs like stapple food? Also, some of their method are already use like burning rice corps and intensification. But, it is not magic trick. A lot of issue coming from that method. Like spreading wild fire into tropical jungle like in Sumatra, Borneo, and Java Indonesia. My point is, there are a lot of bigger issues that can be addresses. And most of them like oil, meat, and transportation industries are dealing with multi billionare conglomerate. Including giant food indsutries that make a lot of waste food in the first place. If they lost millons of dollars, they perfectly fine. Meanwhile, rice mostly run by small farmer, who already struggling with their daily life. Should we ignore rice problem, certainly no. But should we portray rice farming as bad as this video, i don't think so.
@@Aninkovsky you talking about meat is the definition of whataboutism. We cannot really get hung up on what's better or what's worse. Anything that produces greenhouse gases need to be reduced in some way. Anyways, they have already talked about those issues, you can look it up lol Exactly, some, but not all, and I'm guess not widely. Also clearly not well, if it's causing wildfires. Your not even taking into account the most important method of not flooding your crops. Also they never really portray rice farming as bad. They clearly understand how important it is and how many people it feeds, and that more effort can be done to reduce Methane with a few techniques. If we only look at the big issues, we miss the small issues that can easily be fixed, and we need to decarbonise everything to prevent 2C warming, not just the big ones. Also, you think their lives are any easier with climate change ravaging their fields? We can't stop reducing our impact on the climate just to make people's lives a little easier, cus the alternative is worse for everyone.
if u waste rice, the folktales said that your entire family from granpa to grandchild will be cursed with poor life. your ships will be sunk and your business will go bankrupt, your elderly and children will be sickly and your wife be unfaithful.
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@@asoka7752 They don’t. They showed the emission statistic several times in the video. And believe me there are plenty videos criticizing the beef industry but this one is about rice.
I can’t believe you put out a video on rice without mentioning Masanobu Fukuoka. He knew what to do wrote books about it, he rotated crops and left the straw as mulch. Might need to remake your video after you read his books. Might change your life, it did mine. We need to learn to eat diverse nutrient rich food. Sweet potatoes, cassava, breadfruit or hundreds of other better options. We need to eat better by growing our food cleaner like most the world did before WW2. I appreciate your other content. Aloha
Hi there, thanks for the comment. Fukuoka had some powerful ideas, some of which have been adopted in farms across the world, but there isn't the research base to suggest this could work at scale - or keep rice safe as extreme weather gets worse. The System of Rice Intensification, on the other hand, has been through much more scientific scrutiny. That's why we focused on it in this video :)
My problem with this video is it doesn’t compare emissions per calorie. I recall that rice contains 3-4 times higher calories than wheat. By weight people actually eat less rice compared to other crops.
And? It doesn’t criticize rice itself. Rice is probably still the best food available for feeding masses. This video just shows how the growing could be made better and less pollutive. As a person with common sense one should know with the depicted statistics, that the beef industry is a far worse problem. And there are dozens of videos about the beef industry too, but this one is just about rice.
That figure isn't correct. Rice contains about 360 kcal per 100g, while wheat contains about 330 kcal per 100g. The actual difference is less than 10%, and wheat is much higher in protein. The bigger issue is that wheat is a cool season grass that likes drier conditions, so it's not as productive in the tropics. The situation is actually quite similar for potatoes. Potatoes are less dense in calories, though the difference is mostly moisture and they have similar calorie productivity per unit of land.
Plant potatoes?? Unless it can grow near the ocean we can talk. I mean in my country potatoes are only grown in high areas because they can't grow on flat lands.
In 3:54 the reporter told that partial draining has not took off because of incentive in Bangladesh, that is completely False.The reporter has no idea about the geography of Bangladeshi rice field. In East Asia (Thailand, Philipines or China) Rice is grown on hill so it is very easy to drain the field. But in Bangladesh most of the rice field is flat and low lying riverine land, So it is almost impossible to drain the field. I am very disappinted about the DW is making this type of claim without deep researching. Shame on DW. Loosing trust on DW.
i really hate this video, they say “swap it for cleaner and sturdier crops like potatoes” like bruh that’s in your climate area 🙄, please do more research
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“The challenge instead, is to change the habits and traditions of farmers around the world” - i think the channel greatly underestimates this challenge.
@@anxiousearth680 so we are doomed! Don't act like this earth is paradise, this world is trying to kill us in every possible way, with or without rice, typhoons, earthquake, viruses, floods etc.. Lets just die together! Hahahah
The video is not saying that one should give up rice. Why are you so triggered about a strawman argument you invent in your own heads? Rice farming needs some improvements so that you can shove more rice in your throat, the video is not saying you should give up on rice.
Another selective info video..... Density of the calories, storage shelf life, etc? The statement "because no one is lobby against it" just tell the hypocrisy of this video, because the more harmful industry is heavily lobby so they allow to continue? Make it alright to be "invincible"? The foundation of this argument still just pure typical rich can do whatever they want, and ask the poor to sacrifice/make way....
Rice tolerate flooded land while weeds die, that's the beauty of it. In modern times, this means rice production does not need herbicides. But in ancient times, this saved labor time. Now we need new varieties, able to tolerate salinization, drought and less fertilizer. There are 8 billion people now, and we all want to eat rice.
To what I know from the paddy farmers, not all weeds die in the flooded land. The farmers still need to take out the weeds regularly, especially if they plant the modern paddys.
@@antoniusnwpratama763 True. There are a couple of weeds and some of the "grassy" ones need to be weeded manualy. Pesticides that kill grass often also kill rice. Wild rice (oryza sativa) used to be a problem in South east Asia a few decades ago. But as I remember, that problem created hybrids with very interesting characteristics. There is so much you can do with rice or oryza, in terms of plant breeding and even genetic manipulation. All the generations before us improved it, up to us to take the next steps. Rice is already a main solution for our food problem, but it can do more.
I'm a bit confused, piet lands are often said to be great carbon sinks because of the wet soil. In rice farming the wet soil is the problem. What is the difference here?
These calculations on CO2 don't make sense because it is used by the plants to make carbohydrate. If that is taken into account then the result should be net carbon negative.
Ugh. Asking poorer countries to change their dietary habits and traditions because askin rich countries to give up meat is too hard is what i got from this vid.
The emissions fron these sectors are for survival, whereas developed countries' emissions are mostly luxury emissions. We have been making crops like this for ages, even before there were any issues with global warming. Industrial emissions aren't being talked about enough.
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Living off grid in Puerto Rico with my wife, we switched to eating sweet potatoes as a staple. It makes no sense to us to eat foods we can't easily grow if we want to be resilient. So we're learning more and more how to cook, prepare, and eat sweet potatoes of various varieties.
Wait until you try white potatoes . Since I bought my new air fryer , I go through pounds of potatoes. Never heard of sweet potatoes French Fries , Mash or Baked potatoes. Roasted carrots in a air fryer is awesome too.
@@Crashed131963 Have you ever heard of climbing potatoes? I plant them under every tree. Its fruits are rather bigger than the soil potatoes, but less delicious. The rats or birds don't love them. You don't need to remove any weeds under its host-trees. They are just growing wild, almost no effort needed.
From my experience when goes to Indonesia, specifically in Lumajang (Semeru Mountain area) and Wosobo (Sindoro Mountain area) in 2015 there was ±5000Ha each area that use for Potato planting in around 1800m above the sea level and located in 80° slope. That cause soil sediment in many river and lake, lanslides, lost a lot of soil nutrient from the planting land, and water hyacinth plant polution. Many farmer now lost of hundreds or even thousand spring and good nutrient soil. It's good to care about carbon emision, but don't you think about closest impact for any living thing. Most indonesian farmer plant rice in rainy season because most of river poluted with trash, and 90% are grown on flat land and do not need special temperatures for good production quality. I aware about rice staw burning (but its also good thing for soil) and poluted water from commercial-artificial soil fertilizers + pesticides that make soil quality even worse. So what do you think? It's any better solution and habit change for human? let me know ur side☮️
as asian, rice is life, just like 'freedom' for the westerners. idgaf if i were to live under totalitarian regime if it means abundant and stablr rice supply for me and my family. we were hungry for too long while u lot were enjoying the feast n dumping the waste. why not for a change u eat less and probably go hungry for a bit, to allow us to enjoy our rice? perhaps that will make u realize how we had suffered.
@@krisnadiimam4556 My take doesn't go too far as your geopolitical issue. This vid just shows the scientific facts of planting rice in general. I learn from the comments that, fortunately, some of those problems have been solved. But it takes time to be implemented. Perhaps our forefather didn't know the green-house effect of methane and N2O, but they have planted rice in dry areas. They didn't burn the straw, but fed it to the water buffalos year long. After we harvest the rice, most of us turn the wet field (including the straw in it) into dry soil for planting corn, beans, and other short term vegetations for approximately 6 months. It helps to decompose the straw and restore the soil for the next rice.
@@agustinussiahaan6669 honestly, we indonesian have done what we can with the knowledge we have even since even before indonesia is a country. who doesn't want good harvest, healthy ecosystem and sustainable farming practices, for sure any ideas that promote those goals would be pursued. what irk me most is how dare them speak that way to us that way? they enjoyed the goods and now we are the ones to pay? gimme a break, don't they understand the meaning of being responsible? They are telling us to just eat less so we have less impact on the environment, while they themselves strife for 50cent cheese burger, wrapped in ecosourced wrappers on a drive through in their teslas, off course im pissed.
Most rivers...?? Indonesia have 4400 rivers... Most rivers mean at least 2200+1 rivers is poluted with trash. do you have source to prove your statement..?! unless you think Indonesia is java only.
I agree with the last part that it's preposterous to ask other countries to suddenly shift their farming habits just to slightly save up on emissions when there are many more sources that need cutting down on. This is worth looking into, but certainly not a priority.
Why not? People are being told to change their diets & farming practices to save the planet... with taxes, laws, and restrictions used to do so. As shown in this video, rice is worse for the climate than many types of meat, dairy, and eggs... with the exception of beef. Everyone on this planet needs to play a part, no?
People say this about _everything_ though. Every single source of emissions typically either individually doesn't emit that much as a proportion of global emissions or does, but moving away from it will be difficult or unfair in some way. So people say some variant of this line about _everything_ . If every source of emissions is too insignificant or difficult to cut down, _we don't cut down emissions_ .
Germany exports their massive carbon footprint to developing nations. how about Germany stopped doing that instead of talking about the poor man's food plate? poor people only have rice, and they even criticize it? I reported this video.
I do agree we need to reduce food waste but reducing rice is a tricky thing. It's' the same as asking east reduce consumption on beef, steak, hamburgers and god awful veals.
I just wanted to say that their are heirloom rice called hasik in our province where it can grew and produce good harvest. There is one thing that seperate from the rest is that it grew on mountain not on padies or muddy places but a dry and normal soil. It has no known pest except for bird. The only thing is that it requires weeding.
And weeds are the primary reason why rice farmers flood the soil because in most rice varities, weeds doesn't grow in flooded soil while rice isn't affected by the flooded soil. Most comments here complains of too much work draining the soil because it rains a lot in asia.
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What you forgot to consider or mention is that on a weight basis, rice has more calories than wheat or potatoes. In these densely populated regions, getting the most carbs out of each gram of food is vital to sustaining the populations, which rice does the best job hence. Hence why rice and not wheat is the staple in Asian countries.
Even the idea of poverty is foreign to the privileged.
Not to mention is, gigantic water supply in tropical region. I know water is scarce but everyday is raining like 5hour and little sunlight with cloud hanging around everyday in wet season, it's very hard to keep the soil dry tbh
2:30 I think the point being made here is that rice has the most potential to make an impact if we adopt enviromentally friendly forms of obtaining it.
2:02 The video did acknowledge the proportionate impact of rice compared to other foods.
@@anxiousearth680 its bizarre, i read up on it, some white guy in france "invented" rice techniques that we have been using since ancient china, transplanting, spacing and stuff, if you look close enough at the map they are presenting, only the west are refusing to use those method, peoples who dont use them in Asia are either growing dry rice or mixed crop(isn't that what you say is better 🥴?). We dont soak the whole season, i dont know why do they think we do that.
Its not just rice that wet rice produce, its the snail, crab, shrimp, fish, eel and frogs. I dont think they mind changing their protein source to beef and pigs... But thats just madness, how destructive that will be for the environment?
Now, numerous wild animals that evolve along human rely on wet rice... Frog, snail, fish, birds,... Seem like someone just need a scapegoat to scream "why aren't you WESTERN enough" at peoples. Sure, just keep hundreds of millions of animals safe for us, then feed us forever, we will stop doing it.
Perhaps, but per acre potatoes and corn have more calories than rice: 15 million calories per acre for potatoes and corn, versus 11 million calories per acre for rice.
The West can lobby as much as it wants, Asia is not giving up on rice, it's beyond food, it's part of our culture, tradition and a vital food source from the poorest to the richest. Yes, cultivation practices can be improved.
No one is saying you should. If you actually watched the video instead of being offended, you'd know that it offered solutions to make growing rice more sustainable.
@@anxiousearth680 we've been doing that for decades. IRRI is located in the Asia-Pacific for that particular reason
@@anxiousearth680 the fact that a white show criticizing how Asians how they grow their food when they already have invented more innovative ways of culitivation is just pure racist in my opinion. Rice is the bond that unites all Asian culture.
So true bro.. it's World economic forum agenda. Whatever the west does not produce it targets that . Simple.
This is why I am against Fake meat and Lab Grown meat. Over our Culinary Culture.
I live in south east Asia near the equator, rice is the only viable crop compare to others like wheat and potato . Wheat and potato production requires colder climate around 20~24C which is not an option for many countries near the equator. No way we would give up our rice to please climate cultists. Our food security is at stake. Imagine if rice consumers switch to wheat, how crazy wheat prices would have been since more people will be competing for wheat in the international market, which is already at lower stock level due to Russia-Ukraine war.
Well, we will have to change to please the climate-technocrats. Otherwise they will use the stick if the carrot does not work
Corn 🌽?
Largest producer of wheat is 🇨🇳🇮🇳
@@jirachi-wishmaker9242 Hmmm China. FYI, they are the largest of importer of rice.
@@MrQwertypoiuyty 🇮🇳 is the largest exporter
2nd largest producer
Rice field is not just for growing rice, farmer also use it for fish and duck.
shhhh.... this video is for echo chambering....
They don't know eh they are ignorant
Snails, eels. But shhhh this video is just an echo chamber
This video is an eco chamber to say the least.
Cool fact. But that does not change the issues highlighted in the video. Did you even watch it?
In many places in India like Kerala we dry the rice plans to make hay. And this hay is used year round to feed cattle. It is simple and effective.
But if the rice is sprayed with chemicals like pesticides and fertilizers, it isn't safe for the cattle right?
@@chihirostargazer6573 many pesticides I would agree with, but there's nothing inherently dangerous about most forms of fertiliser.
It is not chemical fertilizers that are being used. Those are bio fertilizers which are in all way good
When you feed it to the cow then Westerner will yell methane emissions this, animal cruelty that...
But cattle feeding would be a small-scale change to implement. The waste is much more than what the animals can consume.
I feel like the intentions of this guy weren't bad, but he's so disconnected from the reality of countries that has rice on it's core diet (like Brazil, where I'm from) that he ends up underestimate what this would mean to billions and billions of people.
So true. I m from eastern region of India and our main food is rice and we eat rice with almost every meal and eat rice everyday. The fact that the west consumes so much beef isn't discussed but it's the problem of Asia that the people eat. We value food a lot and that is the way we respect God Annapurna and food is the way we connect.
@@preranataylorsversion6883 You actually value food? That's interesting. Here in Kerala we don't value food at all. People go starving for weeks before they realize they haven't eaten in a while
@@preranataylorsversion6883 Do you realize that raising cattle for milk anyway and then not killing or eating them (and letting them wander the streets depositing dung and emitting methane) is needlessly bad for the planet?
@@rexsceleratorum1632rather targeting ordinary people & cattle u can focus on millionaires who use private Planes for 5 min ride. That causes more damage to environment than regular people.
Kerala people are neither living in poverty nor dying of rice scarcity. Fake news
@@preranataylorsversion6883There have several videos in this channel of about how beef industry creating more co2 as well. Search them down.
Rice fields produce so much food sources, like fish , crayfish, fresh water prawns , crabs , snail and many more . After harvest, the hay and grain shells are used for feeding farm animals . And rice literally feed half of the population . Because we only need water and fire to eat rice . A poor family survive only eating rice balls with salt . The problems you've mentioned are small compared to the benefits it brings .
Ikr, clams were introduced and kids fish them out of rice fields. Rice provides soo much
Yup, if you talk about methane emissions of rice paddies it has to also calculate the upside of all the other food sources
We'll just ignore the wild disparity in energy consumption between the countries where rice is commonly grown and the industrialized nations like the one that is home to Deutsche Welle. This video is incredibly hypocritical. Germany needs to stop producing automobiles before we even begin to think about rice production in Southeast Asia.
It's always the west preaching the ways when most of the modern age pollution can be attributed to their industrial activities.
The world needs to be look at Africa with something besides pity. We have like, your collective bioavailable land mass in open fucking farmland, we have minerals and ore galore
But no, the west is letting China get the inroads here because I mean.. Come on. It's AFRICA right?
You going to do something about the Chinese smog first?
Yea they should just make one 72 hour video on the channel detailing all the problems contributing to climate change and the possible solutions for them
Yeah I live in the West and we are the responsible for climate change and we are the ones who need to find solutions not poor countries.
Here we go, blaming small issues instead of dealing with the underlying issue. Over consumption, literally we eat fast food 3 times a day, use single use plastics, constantly buying any and everything to self soothe..
But yeah it's the rice...🙄
Speak for yourself.
So anything but the rice is more of a problem? Seems like you have some discipline issues
it is not on the consumer to save the earth. our pollution is nothing compared to the pollution that oil companies make alone. it's propaganda, making us turn on each other instead of realizing that the oil companies who are actively refusing climate policies just to make more money. just look up the willow project. educate yourself instead of blaming it on everyone else.
@@baoquoc3710 Most of the West has, very few are satisfied with what they have!
Fun Fact: 100 corporations are responsible for 70% of all emissions and these companies use things like plastic straws/bags, carbon footprint, & individual responsibility to shift blame away from them and onto the common people so that corporations can keep polluting and deflect responsibility.
How about doing an episode on the Environmental impact of toilet paper?
Can you give me a short explanation please?
@@somerandomfella I could give the short explanation but it gets shitty.
@@somerandomfella you shit and wash but do not wipe your ass without washing.
Up lol
Or an episode about reducing food eaten so we can get healthier and reduce the pressure on the natural resources.
At the end of the day, when you look at which countries have the world's highest historical CO2 & methane per capita -- they're not from the rice producing nations.
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They just like to pointed finger to everybody but themselves.
@slimeylimes5489 China is no. 2 because of their rapid industrialization, not rice production lol.
@Slimey limes That's from factories and mining industries.
I am from philippines, we try to grow potatoes here. you have no idea how small local grown potatoes compare to western ones. they also expensive. they are barely last a month without cold storage.
@@user-gu9yq5sj7c import? Cuz growing local is better for the climate then import. Lmao
There are plenty of varieties of rice that can be grown without synthetic fertilizer and flooding. The problem isn't rice, it's multi national chemical companies who want to turn all the farm land into commodities to turn them profit.
Small organic farmers who incorporate animals are not the enemy.
@@someguy2135 u r over exaggerating the issue of animal agriculture.its better we focus on the elephant in the room! Fossil fuels
European should accept America GM crops which is more friendly to the earth😂
How will Multinational companies want to profit from farmland? Could you please explain?
@@someguy2135 methane comes from USA and not farmlands.
Small organic farmers can never feed earths population.
Theres a literal rice field behind my house. And every year since i was little, i watched each and every steps of our local farmers.
What i find cool about their way of farming is that they dont burn the straws but instead let their cows graze on them and in return, they poop on the fields and thus fertilizing it. And not only cows but also some birds that feed on leftover grains and insects. I used to think that its a common practice because of how it doesnt waste nutrients...until i learned that some farmers burn their fields 🙁
Same. I live in Kashmir and we eat rice with every meal. I'm a farmer myself and we feed straws to our cows. It's actually a priced thing in our place. We get snowy winter and that straw becomes an important feed for cattle.
The reason why lots of farmer burnt their field is to (1) minimize cost of transporting the straws and (2) to turn it into mulch.
I know some people think it's better to just let it be and use it as mulch, but those straws, when exposed to high humidity, might become the breeding ground for mushroom.
That's why they just burn it on site. Ofc they left some of those straws as mulch for future use (for other crops), but the majority of them will be burned then mixed with the soil.
God controls the climate. Global warming and climate change don't change other than on Judgement Day when the angel pours down the bowl of flaming oil on the earth with thunder and lightning.
@@souffle420 muschroom? that's a win win.. sell mushrooms then.
😂lol then what about forest fire
A correction: Corn has not been a staple food in the Chinese diet for thousands of years. It's not even a native plant, it was only introduced in the 1500s.
Also, potatoes will not grow well in rice growing areas. They're too hot and humid for potatoes. However sweet potatoes will grow very well in those areas. They're different plants and classified in different families despite the similar names.
@@eitkoml yeah Potatoes grows in Vietnam are way smaller than those that grows in the West.
We should fix the ways Europeans make wines, beers, cheeses, and sausages. Different from rices, people do not die without wines, beers, cheeses, sausages, etc. I can't believe DW made this video with no shame.
Correct.. they need beef everyday even if it is releasing highest green house gases, they need wines, beer ,etc even though we can leave without consuming it.. they never try to replace these drinks are sausage with staple crops and supply it African people who are starving for food.. They can't sacrifice luxury but others have to change whatever cheap staple food they are eating.
@@satishk1375 exactly. so easy to blame the global south than to fix their priviledged a$ses
I can't believe you made this comment without actually researching, DW literally made a video about cheese. No shame.
@@xiiaohao3871 The whataboutism was too precious to ruin with research
@@whynottalklikeapirat Whataboutism is a word created by western supremacists to silence fair criticism of their hypocrisy.
Rice contains the most calories when compared with wheat or potatoes. When farmers plant less rice, how do these countries replace the caloric deficit?
The video wasn't really suggesting for us to plant less rice. It was only mentioned for the sake of completion. Most of the suggestions have to do with either planting rice in a different way (but still the same amount of rice) or fixing the way we treat the waste that comes from rice farming (like what we do with the hay).
This's hypocrite video
Do not listen to Western lies.
@@marioprawirosudiro7301 In that video they also suggest to replace rice with potatoes. While for many its been known that potatoes only have short life shelf in tropics, can't properly grown in lowland tropics, and it also create massive problem in mountains where they were planted.
We need less calories these days as we are getting it from other sources (corn, sugars, etc.). Obesity is now a growing issue in parts of Asia due to increasing use of motor vehicles for transport, and less physically demanding jobs.
One thing that's also overlooked: rice field has their own ecosystem. And in the past decades, rice farmers are far less dependent on artificial fertilizer compared to what they used before the year 2000. In East and South East Asia, there are more than just crops in the field. There are fishes, toads, snakes, and even crayfish. Much more live in the field. Most of these are attracted to pests that can disturb or even fail the rice growth, such as locusts, rats, and snails. Even the farmers learn to double their earnings by raising ducks, which easily sweep every inch of the field from pests and in return give the field a healthy natural fertilizer.
I'd like to see a follow up episode focusing on the work of Masanobu Fukuoka. He answered many of these questions decades ago, using regenerative methods, and it's a shame he wasn't mentioned here at all.
@@DWPlanetA but he is against on your agenda eh
Bill Mollison would be another one on permaculture.
@@modemmann303 Bill Mollison is a legend for sure, but considering the topic of the video is specifically rice, that was Masanobu's area of expertise. Mollison is not necessarily pertinent on that topic.
Same thought I had during the whole episode, why not applying Masanobu’s natural farming techniques? At least they could have mentioned it here 🙏
@@taniam7609 Deutsche Welle? German foreign TV? Fukuoka is faar too excentric for their appearance I`d say. Aand there`s no comparison of crop-yield per square foot 😉
RICE supports more population than any other crops . Other factor is Rice can be converted into many forms which can be preserved for long which probably Germans don't know. 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇵🇰 🇹🇭 🇧🇩 - Almost 50% of worlds population consumes Rice for centuries .
That's exactly why it's helpful to try and improve how it is cultivated, it is such a massive part of agriculture that even small incremental improvements pay gargantuan dividends back to society
@@rorychivers8769 first western countries stop eating beef everyday which is emitting most green house gases in food industry then give lectures about other continent people food. What do you say?
Also, western countries produce more pollution when compared with their population... Why don't you people stop using cars as daily transport even if you are traveling single? If all western countries people start using public transport and eat veggies then green house gases will be reduced to less than 50%. Practice it before preaching others.
@@rorychivers8769 Common sense tells me that there's no problem with rice to begin with,. if it was reliable for a thousand of years, then it not's a the problem but the change of the environment itself. Although even if we could say it could say it could contribute Methane or CO2, it isn't even it's fault. I'm pretty sure the world used to manage it's air content when there's still a lot of trees. Instead they resort on blaming rice when it's just a victim of the current situation.
@@rorychivers8769 Lol, you d*mbasses should know about the ground reality before barking.
Rice is the most sustainable crop compared to the steaks and beef eaten in West.
A better and sustainable way to fight climate change will be to eat less steaks.
@@satishk1375 All of those things are talked about at length in western countries and there are countless initiatives about that. Why are you acting as if nobody ever talks about meat consumption and cars?
Correction: rice is not bad for climate… greed is
Rice > awful for the planet!
Switching your smartphone every 3 months > very good for the planet (and capitalism 😉)
Rice produces oxygen while chickens, pigs, cows do not, it actually reduces oxygen
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@@user-gu9yq5sj7c they’ve changed the video title if I remember correctly! It was related to climate change… don’t remember exact words!
What a hypocritical take on rice production. You talked about rice without even mentioning the IRRI (International Rice Research Institute). FYI, they already produced rice varieties that are drought-resistant, submergence-resistant, toxic soil resistant, among others. These varieties are already being planted and eaten by MILLIONS of ASIANS. A quick look on their website or even an interview from them could have remedied some of the misconceptions on this video. You also mentioned the greenhouse gas emission of rice production but you never discussed the humongous difference between the greenhouse gas yields between rice production and industrial machineries that power the west's economies. A little introspection could have help you arrive with the idea that MAYBE, the amount of greenhouse gas pumped by industrialized countries are EXPONENTIALLY FAR GREATER than that of rice production.
Exactly. In Malaysia, we are looking at increasing our rice production for domestic use, using technology and better policies. Paddy field burning happened in places where good policies are not enforced, it is not becauss of rice farming. DW always say they advocate for solution journalism but they did not give a single example of best practices by countries in Asia that have perfected rice farming as an eco-viable crop. Makes me feel this documentary is either badly researched or paid by big European lobby groups. Also, what's the deal with propagating Asians to rely on potatoes (??!). Potatoes can't last more than 1 week in hot and humid Southeast Asia climate before they start sprouting.
Uh, not yet done with the video, but I can say one thing. The thing about those drought, flood, toxic, climate, mountain resistant varieties is that none of them are high yield. At least not yet. I doubt they can shoulder the entire demand of the market as they are right now
You make a good point about the verities of rice not being mentioned.
Your comparison of rice emissions to that of western industry is terrible. You are comparing two vastly different things. A better comparison would be rice emissions vs grains common in the west. Like corn or wheat.
@@Essentially_Nobody really? I doubt that
Farmer keep water in rice field because they can also harvest crab, clam or shellfish in the same field after they take the seed.
Wow, that’s interesting. I never heard that before!
And duck
True
@@magesalmanac6424 at least you know now. These potato eating Germans have no idea why rice is grown that way.
literally 2 birds in oone stone or should we say 4 birds in one stone?
I am pretty sure there are bigger factors to climate change than rice. The main reason why the total emissions for rice are so high is that so many people eat it. But there are other things which many people use that cause more pollution, and we would gain more by making those things more efficient, like traffic, heating, cooling and manufacturing. But foods are of course very important aswell.
climate change is a business idea. In simple words, it is used to sell you a product. It's not real, hell when London reached 40 degrees C, it was raining in Saudi, in the desert. Don't fall for crap. You're smarter than that.
Disappointing that you entirely skipped the most important and cheapest fix: mulch. Rice straw makes excellent mulch for crop seedlings in dryland cultivation. It's being used on small sustainable farms in India to maintain better soil moisture, suppress weeds, slowly build soil carbon levels and reduce emissions. No stubble burning, no need for trucking it away.
The reason this isn't applied large scale is because colonial agronomists insisted upon heavy tillage, intensive harrowing and a "clean" seedbed with no organic debris on the surface. They believed this would reduce crop pests and diseases, allowing constant repetition of the same monocrop in the same field (as opposed to field rotation). They did not realize how destructive this method was for the soil microbiome and the network of subsoil fungi and bacteria that supported the soil structure and increased fertility for the crop roots. Eventually this destruction made synthetic fertilizers a requirement, ruined the capacity of the soil to retain moisture, and increased weed problems.
Mulching with crop residue and a 3-5 season crop rotation fix all of these issues, and the regenerative agriculture communities in India are demonstrating this. It's a shame that in covering this topic, you completely overlooked the most essential, fastest, healthiest solution. It only requires educating the farmers and allowing them to grow multiple types of crops, (removing the government incentives that currently prevent this). It's cheap, farm friendly, planet friendly, and you didn't even mention it. Why?
DW shows a constant bias for massively overcomplicated 'benevolent' intervention strategies that bypass better, lower-tech, native methods. It's basically white savior complex, applied to ecosystem welfare. Shame. Do your homework better.
If you watch the video , you'll see that straw as mulch is discussed.
Are you Lost?
The only reason this video is still up because RUclips remove the dislike button so channel like this can make video like this without being publicly shame
I've seen worst. 3000 dislikes are not the outrageous amount anyone would care about.
3.2K dislikes so far.
8K boi.
When you start saying that growing food causes climate change, you have totally flipped your lid.
Soon, living causes climate change, and "if we reduce the population by half, we can reduce X tons of emissions equivalent to over Y Volkswagens". 😏
Whole Rice also can be saved for year in farmers home.
Other food like potato will decompose faster.
far longer than a year, decades
Potatoes can last almost 2 years in a dark cold dry place.
@@_TwinkCold? Dry? Well that's the problem then. FYI, in the humid tropics, "dank/ cold" places of storage are still very humid, and potatoes can easily spoil or sprout. DW suggesting to grow potatoes? Good luck to the farmers near the tropics then.
DW's research at its best.
@@MrQwertypoiuyty DW didn't suggest potatoes. They suggested new growing methods to make rice produce less green house gasses like the potato. Though you should check out china's efforts to move away from rice towards the potato. The campaign started like 2014 but picked up steam 2017.
@@MrQwertypoiuyty It's as if they want Asia to experience the potato famine.
The problem for lack of better technique adoption is because most farmers are dependent on their farm yield. You could invite multiple noble prize awardee to explain long and wide even with excellent audio visual yet they won't simply adopt it. They need to grow rice to survive and they need a true and tried method to do so. Why would they listen to the people who live on horizon they won't ever see, who never grow a rice, and not depend their dear life on a harvest this season like them farmer do.
A lot of rural people in the West who work in forestry, agriculture, and depend on the land for food & produce have been complaining about this as well. The elite who live, play, & work in cities & university towns draft & impose policies with little regard of its feasibility & unintended impact in real life.
Those Europeans try to teach us how to grow rice, let us teach them how to not use toilet papers anymore, and no beef anymore.
@@nehemialalang7878 yes, as they say "do unto others what you want other to do unto you"
Well said
fact
Meanwhile thousands of planes fly above us daily 🗿
Now compare this emission to celebrity jet emissions and corporate emissions
Hi Nini, that's a valid point. We have covered this already in our previous report, feel free to check it out if you haven't already!
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@@DWPlanetA
so you min indonesia and Vietnam poor country?
So the Western people telling Asian and African people to stop eating rice. What else we can expect from them.
Did you watch the same video as I did?
Dw isn't the "western people" it's a newsoutlet.
@@dave_sic1365 western news outlet, every bit of information is sourced from western institutions and told in the perspective of the west.
Yes ..they want to replace milk with soya milk in India.... But they kicked out by PPL 😁
@@dave_sic1365 It is, a thinly veiled Western European-sponsored channel
@@dave_sic1365 DW is a german media agency and a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) so dont be surprised if they come up with a documentary telling us why we should give up our private properties and start eating bugs to save the planet.
and the 1% of people does 80% more pollutants with their private planes
As rice replacement, potato has a short shelf life without refrigeration which lead to extra carbon footprint.
Also you cannot just plant good potato variant from sub climate country to tropical climate country and expecting to have the same yield, temperature is affecting tube size by alot.
Potatoes need no refrigeration at all. Just throw them in a cold dark and dry place and nothing will happen to them. Of course grain is alot more stable but potatoes survive 1 to 2 years
@@dave_sic1365 that’s the problem buddy in the tropics we have the opposite of cold and dry places.
@@eka.setyawan inside the cellar of a stone building might be enough
@@dave_sic1365 I live in subtropical climate... it's a bit cooler than tropical climate, potato last less than a month. It doesn't hibernate, it just sprouts as fast as it can
@@dave_sic1365 just store the potatoes in the cellars he said.
FYI, most of the households in the Asian tropical countries do not have cellars.
For generations these wooden houses are built on stilts, to account for the possible flooding season and for ventilation.
Even though most of the modern houses are built from concrete on the ground. We just don't have cellars built in.
The philosophy is still the same as before, built away from the ground. Just in case of the monsoon season.
While I applaud the efforts to make growing food more sustainable, the issue of climate change needs to be dealt with in a way that doesn't burden individuals in poor countries. The fossil fuel industry, and adjacent polluters like airlines, producers of synthetic materials, automobiles and cement need to be stopped first.
And they are being - all of the things you cited _are_ the focus of of a lot of climate action. Emissions in most of the developed world peaked over a decade ago - they are still high on a per capita basis and there is obviously more to do, but the bulk of emissions in the 21st century won't be from the wealthiest countries, but rather populous middle-income/fast growing income countries like China and India. I understand the climate justice narrative, but ultimately, if we want to keep warming to below 2.5oC, wealthy countries alone emitting less _will not be sufficient_ . It doesn't matter if that's fair or not, it's the truth.
@@merrymachiavelli2041 not really, Indian/Chinese emissions are still western emissions just outsourced. Fashion industry being run from Europe is arguably one of the most useless industries for humans as whole. Majority of clothes production is not in Europe so doesn't show up as their emissions but the usage of those clothes is. Fact is, West wants to have their cake and eat it too which will not fly.
Climate change problem is a hoax! A scam!
Yes, if we simply phased out dumping old carbon from millions of years ago into our current biosphere, we wouldn't have to worry about Methane or quibble over farming techniques!
It is important to also phase out farming crops with chemicals in dead soils and to be storing carbon as compost and bio-matter in the soil.
But we don't need a thousand tiny solutions that inconvenience everyone, we just need to stop adding extra carbon to our current biosphere and restore the quality of our soils. :)
Rice is probably the only grain that can be eaten with anything and you will never get tired of it. Can't say the same for wheat or potatoes.
Maybe there's no Big Rice lobby because they never expected anyone to bite the hand that feeds them. Dairy could disappear tomorrow and at most we'd lose a few beverages and pastries. Losing rice would be devastating.
If dairy disappeared we would lose cheeseburgers.
I would prefer losing rice.
@@BatCaveOz you would but Worlds majority population eats rice and white are getting reduced faster in population
@@BatCaveOz Asia feeds on rice
@@someguy2135 "65% of the world's population is lactose intolerant". Now you gotta bring me some source for that lol coz to me that doesn't look to be a correct statement.
@@BatCaveOz your comment speaks a lot about white privilege and entitlement lmao you want a crop that feeds half the world's population to disappear than loose something that tastes good lmao.
10:30, the reason rice doesn't have a lobby industry seems interesting. It's mostly grown by numberous farmers holding small land in developing nations. Maybe I'm wrong?
This video had worse research than a fifth grade science project.
No one is talking about it because it's not a problem here???
- Rains all the time; so paddies are a way to acclimatize to wet soil for actual farmland use to FEED US STARVING PEOPLE
- Rice has the most calories per weight, so we can FEED PEOPLE EFFICIENTLY
- Regenerative methods in reclaiming the soil HAS BEEN DONE and HAS WORKED in Japan, and is adopted in many Southeast Asian countries now too
How did you not get a single Easterner's input in this video is actually beyond me. Talk about an echo chamber; you're doing the world a disservice by importing these non-ideals to places that actually know how to live and work with these feedstocks for centuries by now; and have solved much of their deficiencies within the past decade. Don't look at Co2 emissions for what they are, without seeing the context to them. Just like that past video of you giving crypto even a smidge of a platform, I think this one might be video to push me towards being finally done with you guys. Please do better.
thank you for speaking it out loud! im with u wholeheartedly
Agreed.
And for a fact, that human have been growing rice for thousands of years , yet we still haven’t experienced a f*cling apocalypse despite the so called co2 emissions, really shows these over privileged folks in developed countries have no clue what they are talking about
Yeah, they are only doing this in the Western Part of View. If we are to go with Eastern Part of View.
JUST EAT LESS BEEF AND SAVE THE PLANET instead of telling 3.5 Billion to go and starve.
exactly, its like telling to most asia country to stop cutting their trees, meanwhile western barely have any big forest left.
i am befuddled how the potato is more resilient to mud than a plant thst grows in mud. the potato will rot rather quickly.
because it turns into mush
Just for anyone who might be confused:
Reducing rice consumption is NOT the answer. By doing that you might push them to more polluting foods like beef.
Changing the way we grow it might be helpful.
Another thing that will help is banning meats from all fast food chains, I'm not saying to ban meats, but to ban it for fast food. It will reduce HUGE amounts of emissions.
Rice and wheat yield a comparable amount of calories per unit weight but land yields the greatest quantity of rice per unit area, which is why the densest populated regions (the Valeriepieris circle) subsist largely on rice.
Reducing waste is always better, but focusing on rice’s greenhouse gas emissions is strangely specific because all agriculture contributes to less than 10%, so rice alone is negligible compared to fossil fuels for electricity or transportation, manufacturing processes etc.
Actually both wheat and potatoes produce more calories per square hectare then white rice. It really depends on the rice in question.
@@_Twink Excuse me, what is the numbers of calories per square hectare in your source is? And why does your statement contradict most of the sources I found on the internet and books about rice agriculture? Please send me the title of the scientific report so I can research more about it. I just want to satiate my curiosity so please really do send me the source.
Also, in my humble opinion if rice have less calories per hectare, why would rice growing countries have much higher population density than wheat and potato growing countries since the ancient time? Demographic numbers don't lie. So, in my opinion there is a flaw in the statement where rice has less calories per square hectares, because high population density also happens in island countries like Indonesia where land is not as abundant as compared to the main continent of Europe or Asia. There might be a problem in the source that you got this information from.
@@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe12 dude, go ogle it, first response: *15.6 million calories per hectare for potatoes and 5.98 million calories per hectare for rice.*
Just look at the massive population boon when potatoes were introduced to Ireland, or sweet potatoes to Asia. It's an inalienable fact you can't deny. Land makes more calories with potatoes then rice. I'd like to know where you say it doesn't?
There's a reason around 2014 China was making a push to adapt the potato into society, they see it as the best food to maintain their booming population. Just look up "why the Chinese government wants it's people to eat more potato 🥔
@@Essentially_Nobody but the majority of the methane emissions come from the beef industry. Y not tackle that first? Y target the one crop that allows billions of people to escape starvation? Beef isn't an essential food source. Other meats especially chicken can provide nutrients too. Y not cut down, it find a way to make that more efficient? I think that's the primary direction of questioning people in the comments r trying to pursue.
What thisvideo is saying isn't lies, but considering the region where rice is the main crop, it's impossible to enact sufficient changes, mostly due to the poverty of the farmers and their number.
Did a former BBC journalist made this video ? I'm deeply disgusted by the double standards and classical Westerner's hypocrisy contained in it.
A western man telling asians how to plant rice??! Hahaha thats funny,,,
Not the first time. Look up the scientist Norman Borlaug.
In Asia, you don't insult two things, our family and our food.
BAN RICE!!!!
Exactly! We don't tell the West what to do even if there is enormous amount of pollution, waste products and other practices that lead to climate change.
@@larryperlas7616 uhhm, the biggest polluters are 1. China 2. US 3. India 4. Russia. Where is that enormous amount of pollution originating from the West? It is in fact China alone that is responsible for the vast majority of pollution globally.
@@ntro9347 You have to consider it per person, China and India have a lot of emissions just because they have soo many people.
@@kuyaleinad4195 also a lot of US products come from China and their factories.
Potatoes are a monoculture, and over dependence on them opens communities up to famine.
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Same with rice. In fact, famines in history have happened when rice crops failed.
You don't seem to know what a monoculture is. A monoculture is when you farm only one type of plant on a field. If you plant only rice and nothing else, you have a monoculture. If you plant only sunflowers, you have a monoculture as well. Neither potaties, rice or sunflowers are a monoculture by definition. It depends how they are planted... basically every mass harvested crop is planted as a monoculture.
@@jonathantan2469 only when fucking drouts happen, potatoes in countries such as south east asia in which it's the most consumed per capita. Don't last long their duration could only hold for 2 months while rice can last for years.
Irish Potato Famine
Trying to get Asians to stop eating rice is like being a cop and arresting jaywalkers instead of going after actual security threats
The purpose of the video is to tell Asian People to import more food from the West instead of planting your own food.
No Big deal ,I know how a World Bank project had initiated a project to replace rice cultivars with Girkins and other crops generating high export values in the newly developed irrigated farmland back in 80-90's in Sri Lanka.
Since there has been short supply of other grains over time, recently, they have initiated funding to renovate ancient water reservoirs, which they earlier advised better to be converted to lands to build factories, since the export crops they recommended to cultivate were consuming much less water than rice and reservoirs were of no use.
No they want us to look like poor more and source of pity and blame😏
The reality is the west can’t survive without exploiting the rest of the world
They want us to be like them like duh they're brainwashing us and stop asian hate
@@jugramhaschwalth390 nothing good if everything have same standards just like 🤖
It's totally untrue that rice straw has so few applications. People have made all kinds of objects from straw for millenia, such as hats, sandals, rope, baskets and mattresses. You can also make dolls, huts, roof thatches and paper.
Enjoy your straw matters Boopsie
The bigger use case is still cattle food.
@@_Twink oh no a twink 😭
They’re fundamentally disconnected from ordinary people living in Philippines tropical China and Brazil etc, not surprising
Potato can't replace rice in Asian cuisine. For example, You can't eat Chinese dishes on a bed of potato starch. They'll have to find ways to make potato resemble rice in texture.
I think potatoes aren't even a good solution practically, not right for the climate they are supposed to grow in. And people should be able to keep staple food ingredients that are major part of their cuisine. And also should not have to compromise their health and may do better physically with the food their ancestors ate. I saw someone mentioning they got rashes from potatoes for instance. Its ridiculous most westerners aren't willing to change their own food habits and still try to impose it on people from other countries, that are poorer and overall pollute less per person. (for context: Im from Europe. And I do eat meat, not willing to change that, I felt terrible on a plant bases diet. But I buy meat from brands that treat animals better)
As Indonesian I have tried to eat potatoes, oat meals, bread/sandwich, and even corn flake with milk for breakfast just like fellow westerner. But is doesn't works ! Rice is the best 😁😁
cobain kentang balado
lauknya nasi
Only brits eat potato for breakfast and they are known for their kitchen atrocities
Rice is Life
@@NikoKyunKyun i still have to eat it with rice 😬
yeah, tried to eat bread or wheat based food.
it just doesn't have that oomph of fullness compared to rice.
Potatoes are usually cooked deep fried. The oil comes from palm or grains from Europe or North America. How much carbon that production and commerce ad?
Hi fenrirgg, good point! We have actually looked into the pros and cons of palm oil for the climate in the following video: ruclips.net/video/tTSLzEJnYIw/видео.html - let us know what you think of the video in the comment section 🌍 🌱
@@DWPlanetA
so you min indonesia and Vietnam poor country?
Potatoes can be boiled & turned into mash without frying. Much healthier too.
Potatoes do not HAVE to be cooked deep fried, you can just boil them for example or bake in the oven. People should deep fry things less. But either way I dont think potatoes are a suitable replacement for rice in Asia
"growing less rice" such a pretentious way of asking poor people to ditch a staple food
Not many people are talking about this because its not that important, we have way bigger issues that urgently need fixing, it's just not a top priority.
What are the issues that need urgent fix?
@@HarishBabuM are you serious?? Look around! So many people are starving to death for one, wars, Greedy governments, Corruption, human trafficking and the list goes on…. Rice gasses are the least of our issues… 🙄
@@rachelslade2908 While e.g. human trafficking is indeed a horrible thing that needs much improvement, it doesn't even get close to the climate crisis we are facing (which is undoubtably the SINGLE biggest thread humanity is facing). Your first point literally is people starving, which will get so much worse once large portions of the planet will dry out and become unhabitable. This is exactly what this video addresses. We live in a big and complex world, we can and have to address many problems in parallel.
@@ZwergDesign Also fixing things like war and corruption are so absurdly hard that we've barely been able to make a dent in them in the millennia that we've been trying to fix them (changing behavior like that is really hard). But solving the technical problem of making rice production produce less methane? So much easier and vastly much more feasible (while still an extremely valuable goal).
@@riggsmarkham922 i think while rice needs fixing it is still more efficient in feeding people. we should probably fix the meat industry since it emits way more while providing fewer calories
One American family consumes as much energy as 700 Nigerian families
Nigerians don't freeze to death in the winter
@@dave_sic1365 Americans use more cars & airplanes, eat beef, pork etc.
If you're talking about heating, average home space also larger for Americans & has central heating.
@@dave_sic1365They Starve to death
Well this has a massive *You're wrong, we're right" energy. Rice growing countries have organizations that deal with these issues. And you didn't bother talking to them what they're researching and actually doing. And also, did you eat that rice you've been playing with and scattering all over the place for the video?
In what way is there a we are doing it right energy?
Honestly, I'm surprised that the video is lacking of research. Pretty much the waste of rice is being used from different thing in here.
Like bruh, the straw is made into hat, bag, mat and something else while the hay os used for animal food.
One question 🙋🏻♀️
If potatoes is the better alternative, how are we going to deal with the leftovers, such as the stems and leaves, and how much greenhouse gases potatoes are going to emit if everyone shifts to consume it?
Is it really a better solution after the cost of teaching the society to changing the direct into account? 🤔
( purely wondering 💭 )
Irish ate potatoes..............Still they starved in 1845. Westerners and their evil trick
Very short self life when you campared to rice ..
ikr, with rice we can deal with leftovers
Corn also works
The stems & leaves are much easier to compost into fertiliser as they are softer.
Rice have been around for thousand of years and we just have global warming recently. So, why change rice farming instead of rich country consume less luxury goods
Wrong from the start. He said rice feeds 3.5B people, so on a per capita i bet emission for rice is way less.
Plus it takes less energy to cook rice than to bake or boil potatoes. Not to mention the west eats processed Potatoes and processed means more energy in processing and cold storage. And then theres oil, frying or roasting potatoes need oil. And 1 kilo of rice feeds around 10 people while 1 kilo of potatoes feeds 4 or 5.
So we'll stick with rice. And you stop eating your burgers.
2:02 They acknowledged this
Why no one talking this? Because it's not important. Especially for developing countries that need to feed their population. Rice has at least 10-25% more calories than potato. So changing it is not an easy option. Also, potato are not that good planted in lower level altitude in tropical area. Which is most of rice plantation are.
@@Essentially_Nobody and yet, rice is directly consumed by human. It's basic necessity for large number of world population. It's not like soybeans or corn that most of its product are used for cattle consumption. And speaking of cattle products, most of world population can survive without it for weeks. But human cannot survive without basic necessity like rice for just couple of days.
@@Essentially_Nobody to be honest, it is not "way of life". Rice is basic necessity of life it self in most of Asian countries. Some, even eat it without any side dish. Just plain white rice to survive a single day. It is very different from meat. You can switch meat production method with lower risk because it is not basic necessity. But rice, one seasonal harvest failure can effect hundreds of million peoples. And some even can effect the survival of country as political entity itself.
@@Essentially_Nobody Again, to be honest. We are talking about milllion of people stapple food. You said that rice contributed to 12% of methane. Some sources mentions that just 7%. But anyway, methane contributed 17% of greenhouse effect. So, rice corps just contributed to less than 2 % of total greenhouse emission. But, there 3.5 billion people use rice as stapple food, more than half of the earth population. It is huge numbers. Meanwhile, landfills and garbage took more than 18% of global methane, more than double of rice production according to United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
@@Essentially_Nobody im not sure the world can focus on multiple issue regarding climate change. One example, the highest contributor to methane is meat. Everybody knows that. And meat is consume by mostly developed countries like US and EU. Almost countries that uses rice as stapple food eat less meat than those countries. In the last part of video, they mentioned that 10% rice lost as waste in some of East and SEA countries. So they want to growing less rice and use rice as efficient as we can.
But, In the United States, for example, it is estimated that approximately 30% to 40% of the food supply is wasted, including meat. So, if developed country still waste their food like that. Why they want to mess with developing countries that already struggiling to meet their basic needs like stapple food?
Also, some of their method are already use like burning rice corps and intensification. But, it is not magic trick. A lot of issue coming from that method. Like spreading wild fire into tropical jungle like in Sumatra, Borneo, and Java Indonesia.
My point is, there are a lot of bigger issues that can be addresses. And most of them like oil, meat, and transportation industries are dealing with multi billionare conglomerate. Including giant food indsutries that make a lot of waste food in the first place. If they lost millons of dollars, they perfectly fine. Meanwhile, rice mostly run by small farmer, who already struggling with their daily life. Should we ignore rice problem, certainly no. But should we portray rice farming as bad as this video, i don't think so.
@@Aninkovsky you talking about meat is the definition of whataboutism. We cannot really get hung up on what's better or what's worse. Anything that produces greenhouse gases need to be reduced in some way. Anyways, they have already talked about those issues, you can look it up lol
Exactly, some, but not all, and I'm guess not widely. Also clearly not well, if it's causing wildfires. Your not even taking into account the most important method of not flooding your crops.
Also they never really portray rice farming as bad. They clearly understand how important it is and how many people it feeds, and that more effort can be done to reduce Methane with a few techniques. If we only look at the big issues, we miss the small issues that can easily be fixed, and we need to decarbonise everything to prevent 2C warming, not just the big ones. Also, you think their lives are any easier with climate change ravaging their fields? We can't stop reducing our impact on the climate just to make people's lives a little easier, cus the alternative is worse for everyone.
Rice is still a sustainable source of food for Asia. Don't blame Asia for Europe's/America's huge carbon footprint.
Instead solving problem you make several problems 🗿
When I eat rice, I don't waste even one grain. I hope people can stop their food wastage especially when people have nothing to eat.
if u waste rice, the folktales said that your entire family from granpa to grandchild will be cursed with poor life. your ships will be sunk and your business will go bankrupt, your elderly and children will be sickly and your wife be unfaithful.
But it sounds greedy not to leave some grains to feed the hens. 🙏
@@krisnadiimam4556 "nanti nasinya nangis" Indonesian mom legend word
@@muhamadmiftahurrizqi5909 betul bangettt. ntar dewi sri turun tangan buat ngehajar keluarga yg bikin nasi nangis itu.
Lol. You liar. No human can do that even if you claim to be.
So calling out on rice ... We're gonna just ignore Beef industry which has nearly double carbon footprint...
Hi Vinayak Gupta, we have done videos on those topics before. You can watch them here:
📺 Killing an animal: What it actually means to eat meat ruclips.net/video/XTmrwLB80Zs/видео.html
📺 We gotta talk about cheese... (sorry) ruclips.net/video/_u_sLantkq4/видео.html
📺 Is vegan meat the "better" meat? ruclips.net/video/6TvNjOrC9lM/видео.html
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@@DWPlanetA Have you spoken about the Beef industry specifically? No. Bunch of hypocrites
5.2 billion people eat rice 2000 unit carbon but 2.5 billion people eat beef 4000 unit carbon. DW very good math.
The retarded woke climate cult thinks humans should just consume air or something. But I doubt they will even stop there.
They don't deny that. Have you seen the video?
@@lupolinar they don't deny, but they undermine the effect of beef.
@@KaiSellgren No.
@@asoka7752 They don’t. They showed the emission statistic several times in the video. And believe me there are plenty videos criticizing the beef industry but this one is about rice.
I can’t believe you put out a video on rice without mentioning Masanobu Fukuoka. He knew what to do wrote books about it, he rotated crops and left the straw as mulch. Might need to remake your video after you read his books. Might change your life, it did mine. We need to learn to eat diverse nutrient rich food. Sweet potatoes, cassava, breadfruit or hundreds of other better options. We need to eat better by growing our food cleaner like most the world did before WW2. I appreciate your other content.
Aloha
I just came to the comments to say the same thing! What a shame!
Im glad someone is aware about natural farming
Hi there, thanks for the comment. Fukuoka had some powerful ideas, some of which have been adopted in farms across the world, but there isn't the research base to suggest this could work at scale - or keep rice safe as extreme weather gets worse. The System of Rice Intensification, on the other hand, has been through much more scientific scrutiny. That's why we focused on it in this video :)
@@DWPlanetA
so you min indonesia and Vietnam poor country?
Dude, at least mention about crop rotation. This will make soil more fertile, thus make less fertilizer.
Solutions suggested here is not practical for most of the farmers. It feels like you're attacking the rice consumption.
My problem with this video is it doesn’t compare emissions per calorie. I recall that rice contains 3-4 times higher calories than wheat. By weight people actually eat less rice compared to other crops.
And? It doesn’t criticize rice itself. Rice is probably still the best food available for feeding masses. This video just shows how the growing could be made better and less pollutive. As a person with common sense one should know with the depicted statistics, that the beef industry is a far worse problem. And there are dozens of videos about the beef industry too, but this one is just about rice.
That figure isn't correct. Rice contains about 360 kcal per 100g, while wheat contains about 330 kcal per 100g. The actual difference is less than 10%, and wheat is much higher in protein. The bigger issue is that wheat is a cool season grass that likes drier conditions, so it's not as productive in the tropics. The situation is actually quite similar for potatoes. Potatoes are less dense in calories, though the difference is mostly moisture and they have similar calorie productivity per unit of land.
Plant potatoes?? Unless it can grow near the ocean we can talk. I mean in my country potatoes are only grown in high areas because they can't grow on flat lands.
A grain of rice is worth more than a westerner's opinion.
Every economy stands primarily on food. Without food human can't survive.
Look into industrial one, not the agriculture one.
In 3:54 the reporter told that partial draining has not took off because of incentive in Bangladesh, that is completely False.The reporter has no idea about the geography of Bangladeshi rice field. In East Asia (Thailand, Philipines or China) Rice is grown on hill so it is very easy to drain the field. But in Bangladesh most of the rice field is flat and low lying riverine land, So it is almost impossible to drain the field.
I am very disappinted about the DW is making this type of claim without deep researching.
Shame on DW.
Loosing trust on DW.
In Assam as well
True,they are not considering other problems people face .
Western people waste paper and tissue equivalent to a tree in a week, this needs more attention
i really hate this video, they say “swap it for cleaner and sturdier crops like potatoes” like bruh that’s in your climate area 🙄, please do more research
So the conclusion is, STOP EATING BEEF!!!!
Hi there, thanks for your comment. We have spoken about alternatives to meat and cheese on this channel before. Here are the links in case you have missed them:
📺 "Is vegan meat the "better" meat?
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@@DWPlanetA
indonesian melitery ranking 13 In the word
indonesian economy numba 16 in the world.
so you min indonesia poor country?
Nope. There are gigantic grassy regions of the world that can’t hold food crops. But they can carry beef, lamb, goat.
@@johnootot So stop annoys other's life.
“The challenge instead, is to change the habits and traditions of farmers around the world” - i think the channel greatly underestimates this challenge.
No they don’t. That’s the main goal everyone knows it is not happening in near future but that goes for everything climate related
From rice field you can get : fish,eel ,snail or even duck. From potatoes field ?
Some places, crabs
You can get rotten potatoes from potato fields haha
Just eat your bread and potatoes while pumping and burning crude! we asian will continue to eat rice!
Climate change doesn't care for race.
@@anxiousearth680 so we are doomed! Don't act like this earth is paradise, this world is trying to kill us in every possible way, with or without rice, typhoons, earthquake, viruses, floods etc.. Lets just die together! Hahahah
The video is not saying that one should give up rice. Why are you so triggered about a strawman argument you invent in your own heads?
Rice farming needs some improvements so that you can shove more rice in your throat, the video is not saying you should give up on rice.
The report never said stop eating rice. Just grow it a little differently. So many people eat rice small changes would go a long way.
This is such a dumb example of whataboutism.
Without rice, life is no bueno
Another selective info video..... Density of the calories, storage shelf life, etc?
The statement "because no one is lobby against it" just tell the hypocrisy of this video, because the more harmful industry is heavily lobby so they allow to continue? Make it alright to be "invincible"? The foundation of this argument still just pure typical rich can do whatever they want, and ask the poor to sacrifice/make way....
Not all rice needs flooded land. Some old paddy species in Indonesia grow in the dry land. But they need longer time to be harvested.
Rice tolerate flooded land while weeds die, that's the beauty of it.
In modern times, this means rice production does not need herbicides. But in ancient times, this saved labor time.
Now we need new varieties, able to tolerate salinization, drought and less fertilizer. There are 8 billion people now, and we all want to eat rice.
To what I know from the paddy farmers, not all weeds die in the flooded land. The farmers still need to take out the weeds regularly, especially if they plant the modern paddys.
@@antoniusnwpratama763 True. There are a couple of weeds and some of the "grassy" ones need to be weeded manualy. Pesticides that kill grass often also kill rice.
Wild rice (oryza sativa) used to be a problem in South east Asia a few decades ago. But as I remember, that problem created hybrids with very interesting characteristics.
There is so much you can do with rice or oryza, in terms of plant breeding and even genetic manipulation. All the generations before us improved it, up to us to take the next steps.
Rice is already a main solution for our food problem, but it can do more.
Also failed to mention that the very same wet rice fields breed tons of fish, crayfish and ducks which produces eggs.
I'm a bit confused, piet lands are often said to be great carbon sinks because of the wet soil. In rice farming the wet soil is the problem. What is the difference here?
These calculations on CO2 don't make sense because it is used by the plants to make carbohydrate. If that is taken into account then the result should be net carbon negative.
Ugh. Asking poorer countries to change their dietary habits and traditions because askin rich countries to give up meat is too hard is what i got from this vid.
Wait a minute - replace rice with POTATO? Isn't that the most heavily pesticide laden crop in the world? (Or close to it)
No, not even close. You may think about maize, especially US one.
@@lupolinar thats soy
Rice stay usable for a long time, potatoes start to decompose within much less time compared to rice
The video didn't even say to replace rice with potato
It is. Not to mention the very short shelf life which means you need to invest in equipment that double your carbon footprint
The emissions fron these sectors are for survival, whereas developed countries' emissions are mostly luxury emissions. We have been making crops like this for ages, even before there were any issues with global warming. Industrial emissions aren't being talked about enough.
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@@DWPlanetA
so you mind indonesia and Vietnam poor country?
Why is everyone criticising rice suddenly. most RUclipsr is talking about it
Living off grid in Puerto Rico with my wife, we switched to eating sweet potatoes as a staple. It makes no sense to us to eat foods we can't easily grow if we want to be resilient. So we're learning more and more how to cook, prepare, and eat sweet potatoes of various varieties.
Wait until you try white potatoes .
Since I bought my new air fryer , I go through pounds of potatoes.
Never heard of sweet potatoes French Fries , Mash or Baked potatoes.
Roasted carrots in a air fryer is awesome too.
@@Crashed131963 Sweet potato fries are delicious, also more vitamin A and C, plus fiber. Try 'em!
@@dalewalkonen7847 Will do
thanks.
@@Crashed131963 Have you ever heard of climbing potatoes?
I plant them under every tree. Its fruits are rather bigger than the soil potatoes, but less delicious. The rats or birds don't love them. You don't need to remove any weeds under its host-trees. They are just growing wild, almost no effort needed.
@@dalewalkonen7847
Great source of vitamin K, too.
From my experience when goes to Indonesia, specifically in Lumajang (Semeru Mountain area) and Wosobo (Sindoro Mountain area) in 2015 there was ±5000Ha each area that use for Potato planting in around 1800m above the sea level and located in 80° slope. That cause soil sediment in many river and lake, lanslides, lost a lot of soil nutrient from the planting land, and water hyacinth plant polution. Many farmer now lost of hundreds or even thousand spring and good nutrient soil. It's good to care about carbon emision, but don't you think about closest impact for any living thing. Most indonesian farmer plant rice in rainy season because most of river poluted with trash, and 90% are grown on flat land and do not need special temperatures for good production quality. I aware about rice staw burning (but its also good thing for soil) and poluted water from commercial-artificial soil fertilizers + pesticides that make soil quality even worse.
So what do you think? It's any better solution and habit change for human? let me know ur side☮️
as asian, rice is life, just like 'freedom' for the westerners. idgaf if i were to live under totalitarian regime if it means abundant and stablr rice supply for me and my family. we were hungry for too long while u lot were enjoying the feast n dumping the waste. why not for a change u eat less and probably go hungry for a bit, to allow us to enjoy our rice? perhaps that will make u realize how we had suffered.
@@krisnadiimam4556
My take doesn't go too far as your geopolitical issue.
This vid just shows the scientific facts of planting rice in general.
I learn from the comments that, fortunately, some of those problems have been solved. But it takes time to be implemented.
Perhaps our forefather didn't know the green-house effect of methane and N2O, but they have planted rice in dry areas. They didn't burn the straw, but fed it to the water buffalos year long. After we harvest the rice, most of us turn the wet field (including the straw in it) into dry soil for planting corn, beans, and other short term vegetations for approximately 6 months. It helps to decompose the straw and restore the soil for the next rice.
@@agustinussiahaan6669 honestly, we indonesian have done what we can with the knowledge we have even since even before indonesia is a country. who doesn't want good harvest, healthy ecosystem and sustainable farming practices, for sure any ideas that promote those goals would be pursued. what irk me most is how dare them speak that way to us that way? they enjoyed the goods and now we are the ones to pay? gimme a break, don't they understand the meaning of being responsible? They are telling us to just eat less so we have less impact on the environment, while they themselves strife for 50cent cheese burger, wrapped in ecosourced wrappers on a drive through in their teslas, off course im pissed.
@@krisnadiimam4556 I’m Asian also but rice is not even healthy at all. Rice can cause diabetes and other health problems
Most rivers...?? Indonesia have 4400 rivers... Most rivers mean at least 2200+1 rivers is poluted with trash. do you have source to prove your statement..?!
unless you think Indonesia is java only.
Another day, another western media telling Asians what to do lol
I agree with the last part that it's preposterous to ask other countries to suddenly shift their farming habits just to slightly save up on emissions when there are many more sources that need cutting down on. This is worth looking into, but certainly not a priority.
Why not? People are being told to change their diets & farming practices to save the planet... with taxes, laws, and restrictions used to do so. As shown in this video, rice is worse for the climate than many types of meat, dairy, and eggs... with the exception of beef. Everyone on this planet needs to play a part, no?
People say this about _everything_ though. Every single source of emissions typically either individually doesn't emit that much as a proportion of global emissions or does, but moving away from it will be difficult or unfair in some way. So people say some variant of this line about _everything_ . If every source of emissions is too insignificant or difficult to cut down, _we don't cut down emissions_ .
Germany exports their massive carbon footprint to developing nations. how about Germany stopped doing that instead of talking about the poor man's food plate? poor people only have rice, and they even criticize it? I reported this video.
@@jonathantan2469 Tell that to the rich people in first world countries watering their golf courses in the desert. 🙄😒
@@markgonsalves Phoenix, Arizona a city in the middle of a fucking desert with golf courses and swimming pools
I do agree we need to reduce food waste but reducing rice is a tricky thing. It's' the same as asking east reduce consumption on beef, steak, hamburgers and god awful veals.
And people don't even want to spare minks for fur 😑
But the video was not about eating less rice
This video unite Asians in the most ridiculous way possible: teaching us how to plant.
I just wanted to say that their are heirloom rice called hasik in our province where it can grew and produce good harvest. There is one thing that seperate from the rest is that it grew on mountain not on padies or muddy places but a dry and normal soil. It has no known pest except for bird. The only thing is that it requires weeding.
And weeds are the primary reason why rice farmers flood the soil because in most rice varities, weeds doesn't grow in flooded soil while rice isn't affected by the flooded soil. Most comments here complains of too much work draining the soil because it rains a lot in asia.
wheatcels be seething over ricechads
One word for this video "Privilege"
IKR! The privilege and entitlement is through he roof!
As an Asian-American living in Hawaii this is our staple food most of us eat on a daily basis!