What are we going to eat? It’s the everlasting query. We people have been asking ourselves this for so long as we’ve got been human. The query itself may be tedious, thrilling, pressing, or determined, relying on who’s asking and the place. There are numerous components of the world the place there is no such thing as a reply.
Even when starvation isn’t an acute concern, it could actually stay a persistently power one. Some 2.3 billion folks all over the world endure from meals insecurity, in response to the World Well being Group. In the USA alone, the USDA has discovered that greater than 47 million folks reside in food-insecure households.
This concern is all about meals and the way we will use expertise—excessive and low tech—to feed extra folks. Right here’s a sneak peek at simply a few of what you may anticipate:
+ This concern’s cowl function explores the thorny concern of herbicide-resistant weeds: an issue which is simply, properly, rising.
+ Researchers, farmers, and world agricultural establishments in Africa are tackling starvation by reviving practically forgotten indigenous crops. However as is the case with many such initiatives, loads hinges on enough funding and a focus.
+ If we’re ever to spend any time on Mars, we’re going to wish to develop our personal meals there. However whereas the soil is toxic, efforts to make it arable couldn’t solely assist us deliver life to Mars—it might additionally assist assist life right here on Earth.
+ Would you eat meals that originates from carbon-hungry micro organism munching on greenhouse gases? These startups are betting that you’ll.
The must-reads
