 So, I'm going to talk about how the fact that this planet is becoming more and more urbanized and that we are more and more people, how that could actually create a new food paradigm. Because the reality is, as Hensheren also mentioned, that more than 50% of the world's population already lives in cities and a lot of people believe that in 2050 it could be so close to 80% of the population that lives in cities. That is, by most people, perceived as being a huge problem, but why not look upon it as an opportunity. But I'm just going to take you through a little bit of numbers and graphs, because in the north, where most of us live, we have a tendency to believe that the rest of the world looks somewhat like our own world, and I'd like to challenge that a little bit. So these are our FAO figures of the growth in plant production over the last 40 years. And you'll see that the world has been divided into six regions, and they are a bit unusual, so I'm just going to tell you that the top one is Asia. The second one from the top is Latin America. The third one is the OECD, so that's Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. And then you have Middle East and North Africa. Then you have Sub-Saharan Africa, and then FSU is the former Soviet Union. So that's how the FAO do their agricultural statistics for very good reasons. But as you'll see, we've had a steady growth in plant production per hectare measured in calories per hectare per day, which is what the graph shows. But what it also shows is that the OECD, which often perceives itself as the master of the universe, actually comes in a miserable third. And that's in spite of the fact that we've been throwing obscene amounts of capital at making agriculture more intensive and more efficient, supposedly. But we come in a miserable third, regardless of that. So as Hans Herron also said, there's actually food enough. If you look at the bowls at the bottom, they represent the food bowl in measured in calories in these six different regions. And the only region to have a bowl which is too small is Africa. But that is more than compensated by the fact that the OECD has a bowl which is far too large for our own health. So just to let you know that there is food enough, that it's not the fact that we cannot grow enough food that is the challenge. But now let's take a look at these figures in a more different approach. And that is that the black line that takes the OECD very far to the right shows how we have mechanized and motorized agriculture to an extreme. So the bottom, the X line there is how large an land area is cultivated per agricultural worker. So what the OECD has done is we've substituted labor massively with technology and machinery and fossil fuels. And below us, you can see the former Soviet Union who's been miserable at trying to mimic that. But we've moved labor productivity very far to the right. Whereas Asia and Latin America who actually beat us at productivity have actually stayed very much in smallholder agriculture. So it's not too late to reverse the trend towards industrialization. The world average is actually still in there where the farms are typically 1 to 2 hectares. That's a very important thing to bear in mind. So lots of food is being grown on small plots. Lots of them are still in rural areas. But increasingly so they also take place in urban areas. And you can actually grow 50 tons of healthy food per hectare using sustainable ecological intensive methods in the cities. Whether it's horticulture or orchards or other crops. So it's absolutely possible to have highly productive systems in the cities. This structure is from the Amazon where there are large areas where the soil is too acidic to grow classical horticultural crops. So the Amazon Indians 3-4,000 years ago created what you could call anthropogenic soils. They created soils that allowed them to grow these crops where they would otherwise not grow because the soil was too acidic along the river. And they actually allowed them to become sedentary rather than being hunters and gatherers. And although I love to us romantic, big rethink of the world into hunters and gatherers, I can tell you that that world out there is a fairly cruel world. And there are not many human rights in a hunter's gatherers' world because Mother Nature would just treat us as one species compared to a lot of other species. So if you want to go down that way, you have to be prepared for a fairly brutal world compared to the world of more sedentary agriculture. I won't go into that in great depth, but just to say that, you know, Greenland was colonized by the Danes and we had to leave again because it got too cold out there. And that sort of system would happen if we allowed ourselves to become hunters and gatherers to a large extent. So back to the story here, you can see again structures that are a long tradition of Amazon Indians creating artificial soils to allow themselves to grow crops. Now I find this interesting if we are supposed to begin growing food in urban structures. So this shows that you don't have to have one meter depth of soil onto every single roof to be able to grow crops in cities. You can actually do it and this is a technology that's been out there for 3,500 years. So it's not something that's untried. It's actually tested and tried for a long time. And these two lettuces have actually been grown in a soil that mimics this Amazon Indian principle. In the Amazon it's called the Terra Praeta and they also have a hybrid called the Terra Mulata and this is a slightly paler Terra Danesa that we've created to experiment with these artificial soils. Now we've now left the Amazon River and what you see there is actually the East River and the Hudson River and Brooklyn because this is a map of the opportunity to grow food within New York City. This is a study made at Columbia University just a couple months ago and what it shows if this thing is that if you look at metropolitan New York City it actually has significant land resources available at least in principle. So there are 2,000 hectares of unused land. There are 20,000 hectares of parks. I'm not suggesting that you should be growing potatoes there but you could actually grow a lot of fruit in those parks if you made the decision to do so. And there are 20,000 hectares of private yards. So that's surprising that as much private yard land as all of the parks in metropolitan New York so it's quite significant. And then at the bottom as you can see there are 15,000 hectares of rooftop. If you put that land into some sort of horticulture production the theoretical potential is vast. So it's close to 3 million tons of plant food per year that could grow inside metropolitan New York. Mankind after becoming sedentary 10,000 years ago is actually eaten into 10% of the total agricultural land for urban purposes and roads. And we are still losing about 40,000 square kilometers per year to urbanization. And most of that land is actually good agricultural land because almost every city in the world was based in an agricultural setting. So whenever we take land away for urbanization or it's almost invariably good agricultural soil we're taking away the equivalent of 15 New York cities per year. Who can we talk to about this? Who ever got into this kind of a mess as a species or as a civilization? And what can we do about it? Where can we find solutions? Apart from the examples of creating soils and using them in cities that I've already mentioned. Well, we could get in touch with ant kind because if you take mankind on one side of the scales and ant kind on the other side of the scales who do you think is the heavier? Do we weigh more than the ants or do they weigh more than us? Well, you know, in Denmark we are always very understanding and so it's actually the same. So I'm not giving you a difficult question it's actually the same. So the ants of this world weigh the same as mankind. Now, I don't notice ants all over the place. I don't see them as being a huge nuisance and a polluter. They actually have found ways of organizing themselves in very intelligent ways. And it's not that they're that different from us. They're different from us, but many of their habits are the same. They live in cities primarily. They farm and they keep livestock. In their case, it's mostly aphids that they milk and when they stop milking them, they eat them. Does that sound familiar to you? There's an ant civilization out there which is incredibly efficient. They have no fitness centers, but they can lift their own body weight times eight any time. So they have something that they've worked out although they supposedly do not have the mental capacity that we do as individuals, but as a collective they are very clever in how they go about things. And then they have another thing going for them. It's they've been around a lot longer than we have. You know, we are second generation immigrants into this planet compared to the track record that the ants have. So probably we should be listening to these wonderful little creatures to find out solutions to our predicament. Now, this is Lucius Phavas. This is the yellow meadow ant. And it is quite a regular ant in Denmark and across Europe. And when I spoke to René about the ant side of things, he then said, can't you get hold of some because then we can eat them. Because they taste great. So, you know, you never leave a conversation with René without some sort of challenge that you have to go home and then check out or look into or figure out. So when I'm done and we'll have another couple of speakers, we actually invite you to the first dégustation of ants in Denmark at least. And I highly recommend this. So if you're brave enough, come and help some ants. Now, due to time constraints, we couldn't do the full monty because we were thinking of doing an ant sushi. So we would put an Emma corn and then put every single ant on an Emma corn. So it would be like a tiny little sushi. But the time was not on our side. So you're gonna have them alfresco. What I'd like you to think about is that there's no doubt that we can learn from our ancestors but we can also learn from our ant sisters. Because to solve the equation of being nine or 10 billion people on this planet and farming sustainably is a huge challenge. But sometimes, you know, scale is what blanks your mind out. I was surprised to hear that the ants were actually as heavy as humankind. But I was also just surprised to hear that the present population of just over six billion people can actually sit down all of them on the island of Zealand. They can't lie down, but they can sit down. So although 6.5 billion people sounds like this incredibly big mumbo, we can actually invite them for drinks, sort of discotech-wise on the island of Zealand if we wanted to. But what then the problem is that although we can all fit into the island of Zealand, we make a point of being incredibly wasteful and polluting all over the planet. I think that's where we could learn from the ants to concentrate our shit and then share it as Tor would say. So I think that's one of the things we could learn from the ants. And then we need tons of clever ways of living in cities. And where industrial agriculture is monotonous, urban agriculture has the potential to be incredibly creative. That could be the handheld device where industrial agriculture is the mainframe that is complicated and difficult to program and so on and so forth. So I think that urban agriculture has the potential to unleash enormous creativity. And then urban agriculture has an interesting quality also. It is that there's nobody to fight for that resource with us because for industrial agriculture, that area has been lost. There's no way that they think they can farm in cities because there's no way that you can farm on an industrial scale to the city. So we won't be fighting for resources if we do that. And then probably more than anything else, this idea of urban agriculture latches on to the discussion about biodiversity 20 years ago. When we were asking the Brazilians to save 30% of the Amazon or 40% of the Amazon and to tell the Indonesians that they couldn't cut down the jungle. And they very rightly asked us in the north about how about yourself guys, how yourselves guys, what have you been doing? We said, oh, we have very little left that's interesting with just a little batches around. We take care of them. And they would then ask us, does that mean that just because you cut down your trees a thousand years ago, you get off for free? So the people in the south would ask us, we need to take care of our resources before we tell them what to do. And I think that if we got a grip of urban agriculture in a substantial way, it would be a wonderful way of inspiring the south to do the same who suffer huge urbanization problems. So I think this is an area where the north could show the way, take these inspirations and bring them into something really interesting. So urban agriculture can also serve a greater global social purpose. So this is a, let's have some antipasti. And you'll see here, here is Rene in his fifth incarnation when he's eating 30,000 ants a day. But if anybody has, and maybe we should, Rene sometimes, you know, examples are important. So I think you should have a go at the... Okay, I'll do that, I'll do that. Yeah, let's have an ant or two. I will take, well, I've actually had several already. So, well, I will do it. So the trick is we put them out here. And they're just, can we have the camera here? They're just everywhere. Oh, there's a lot of them and they're all yellow. And I don't have one crawling on me. What I failed to say because the ants got the better of me was that there is a fourth take home message. And it is vitally important that we give our children the skills to deal with these issues and to actually have the skills to create an urban agricultural civilization. Thank you.