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He redistributed land to the people, while retaining state control of agriculture.
This is the story that Detroiters are changing, through urban agriculture and food entrepreneurship.
You understand, urban agriculture in Detroit is all about community, because we grow together.
In the truest sense of the word, this is what agriculture looks like in the city of Detroit.
We're still struggling, and I'm not going to stand here on this stage and tell you that all of Detroit's problems and all of Detroit's challenges are going to be solved through urban agriculture.
I'm not going to do that, but I will tell you this: urban agriculture has Detroit thinking about its city now in a different way, a city that can be both urban and rural.
Farmers come and tell us that they want to adopt sustainable agriculture, but they need some help.
This is an image from Tuscany, where we feel agriculture is still about beauty.
In the 10,000 years since agriculture evolved, most of our ancestors have actually been agriculturalists or they were closely related to food production.
With the advent of the Industrial Revolution with modernization of agriculture in the last few decades, since the 1960s, food availability, per head, in this world, has increased by 25 percent.
As food became plentiful here, it also meant that we were able to decrease the number of people working in agriculture to something like, on average, in the high income countries, five percent or less of the population.
What you see is that we've started in the left-hand corner with traditional agriculture, which was sort of small-scale and low-control.
So we need to think differently about agriculture science.
We cannot solve the world food problem by using biological agriculture.
It's not enough for me to say, "Let's get more bold science into agriculture."
Every province had its own market for agriculture.
I'm talking about food and agriculture.
But one of the more recent innovations in food production being deployed in industrial parks in North America, in the urban city centers of Asia, and even in the arid deserts of the Middle East is controlled environment agriculture.
Controlled environment agriculture is actually just a fancy way of saying weather- or climate-proof farming, and many of these farms grow food three-dimensionally in vertical racks, as opposed to the two dimensions of conventional farms.
And now that I've convinced you that agriculture can be quite sexy, you'll be surprised and shocked to know that I still have trouble fully articulating how and why I decided to work, and continue to work, in the agricultural industry.
This is the agriculture.
And this intensive agriculture of animals and this intensive increase in human populations living together on the same planet is really a melting pot where outbreaks can occur and do occur.
We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.
Is agriculture adapted to that?
If agriculture hasn't experienced that, how could it be adapted?
This is a backup system for world agriculture.
Because, quite literally, if agriculture doesn't adapt to climate change, neither will we.
And if crops don't adapt to climate change, neither will agriculture, neither will we.
In fact, when you go back to the beginning, there were no private investors who would be willing to take a risk on building a new technology for a market class that made under a dollar a day, that were known to be some of the most risk-averse people on the planet and that were working in one of the riskiest sectors, agriculture.
And it was here, about 10,000 years ago, that two extraordinary inventions, agriculture and urbanism, happened roughly in the same place and at the same time.
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