The Future of Food
Future food production faces many challenges, but may also benefit from many technological opportunities. In this video I review the future of food, and offer my predictions for the food industry in 2030.
Selected sources directly referred to or otherwise used in the making of this video include:
World Food Programme: http://www1.wfp.org/
EPA data on greenhouse gas emissions by sector:
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/glob...
IFPRI post on climate change and grain production in China:
http://www.ifpri.org/blog/climate-cha...
UNESCO - “The UN World Water Development Report 2015”: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-...
UN world population projections:
https://www.un.org/development/desa/e...
Science article on rising meat consumption:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content...
IRIN: climate change and over fishing: http://www.irinnews.org/feature/2016/...
Census of Marine Life: http://www.coml.org/
Open Plant Initiative: https://www.openplant.org/
AquaBounty Technologies: http://aquabounty.com/
Wired story on synthetic meat: https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown...
Goldman Sachs precision farming: https://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thin...
CNBC: driverless tractos and agri robots: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/16/futur...
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