which two different metals react with the food to create an electric potential difference that causes a current to flow."
and it wouldn't interfere with food supplies, company officials said. Coskata, which is backed by General motors and other investors, uses bacteria to convert almost any organic material, from corn husks (but not the corn itself) to municipal trash, into ethanol."
It wouldn't impact the food supply, and its net energy balance is high because the technique works almost anywhere using almost anything with great efficiency.
Farm-group ads said the law would raise food prices, increase the risk of diseases and put farmers out of business.
Then they realized they had a contribution to make to the world food shortage with urban agriculture.
600 tons of food must be imported each day. With the global alarm clock going off over water shortages,
the United nations Food and Agriculture Association (FAO) has predicted that feeding the world, expected to rise to nine billion by 2050,
In addition to land degradation, there also increasing competition for land and water between urban and industrial users and within the agricultural industry itself between livestock, staple crops, non-food crops and biofuel production.
So reclaimed space in an urban area or non-arable land where food can be grown is smart business.
and crops could halve food price inflationresource conservation technologies in agriculture could potentially halve the staggering increases in food prices in the face of climate change,
the International Food Policy Research Institute has found. IFPRI will release key findings on agriculture and soil degradation at this month's Rio+20 conference on sustainable development in Rio de janeiro.
will hold a side event at the conference to unveil preliminary results in scientific and economic research work from food policy experts."
and I think that we're at a point where it will be very good to see how these resource-conserving technologies can perform to help solve food insecurity issues."
But full adoption of these improvements could cut food price inflation almost in half, he said.
and, the latest, an edible food packaging called Wikicells (Idea#31). It been in development for a long time,
he believes it will transform the future of food. More than a decade after publishing a study in Science and selling a promising idea for an inhaled drug delivery system, Edwards,
Now any food you might find wrapped in plastic in the store can come in a shell made just using this technology.
2008) The World Food Program's description of the global food crisis raises the specter of a natural disaster surging over an unaware populace that is helpless in the face of massive destruction.
But the reasons so many people have limited access to food are anything but"natural.""On the contrary, decades of skewed agricultural policies, inequitable trade,
and unsustainable development have thrown the world's food systems into a volatile boom and bust cycle
In fact, the world's recurrent food crises are making a handful of investors and multinational corporations very rich even as they devastate the poor and put the rest of the planet at severe environmental and economic risk.
The surge of so-called food"riots"not only in poor countries like Haiti but in resource-rich countries like Brazil and even in the industrialized nations of Europe and the United states reflects the fact that people are not just hungry,
they are rebelling against a dangerous and unjust global food system. The food crisis is anything but silent,
and as long as we are aware of its true causes we are not helpless The World bank, the World trade organization, the World Food Program, the Millennium Challenge, The Alliance for a Green revolution in Africa, the U s. Department of agriculture,
increased food aid, deregulated global trade in agricultural commodities, and more technological and genetic fixes. These measures only strengthen the corporate status quo controlling the world's food.
For this reason, thus far, there has been little official leadership in the face of the crisis. Nor has there been informed any public debate about the real reasons the numbers of hungry people are growing,
The future of our food and fuel systems are being decided de facto by unregulated global markets, financial speculators,
and community-based food systems. There are tens of thousands of highly-productive, equitable, and sustainable alternatives to the present industrial practices and corporate monopolies holding the world's food hostage,
and literally millions of people working to advance these alternatives in this time of need. What is missing is the political will on the part of government, industry
The trigger for the present crisis was food price inflation. The World bank reported that global food prices rose 83%over the last three years
and the FAO cited a 45%increase in their world food price index over just nine months.
The Economist's food price index stands at its highest point since it was formulated originally in 1845.
As of March 2008, average world wheat prices were 130%above their level a year earlier
food prices are still high, and because low-income and poor families are faced with higher fuel and housing costs,
they are still unable to buy sufficient food
Alternative method for farmsan antibacterial product manufactured by a Malaysian company has become a reliable substitute for antibiotics for many farmers in China.
Meanwhile, on a more practical tack, food scientists in the wake of the food shortages after the Second world war often speculated on the possibility of manufacturing meat
vegetables and dry goods. The mobile market was conceived as a solution for oefood deserts, those densely populated, often low-income, neighborhoods that lack pedestrian access to healthy, affordable food.
enabling everyone to have access to food that makes them feel good. FARM: shop: With chickens on the roof, pigs roaming the yard,
shop is an experiment in food cultivation within a constrained urban environment whose goal is to grow the maximum amount of food in the most efficient way possible.
The London-based project was launched by eco-social design group Something & Son. Every inch of the space is built for agriculture,
Low-cost sensors, clever software and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care and food distribution.
using computing intelligence to create more efficient systems for utility grids, traffic management, food distribution, water conservation and health care.
Lab-grown burger to be served up in October Lurking in a petri dish in a laboratory in The netherlands is an unlikely contender for the future of food.
The project, funded by a wealthy, anonymous, individual aims to slash the number of cattle farmed for food,
If you don't do anything meat will become a luxury food and be very, very expensive."
because cows are among the least efficient animals at converting the food they eat into food for humans."
In the future, You Will Eat Your Food Packaging, And It Will be Delicioushere a solution to our ever-growing plastic problem:
package food and beverage items in edible packaging that actually good enough to eat. Dr. David Edwards, a professor at Harvard, is working on it.
After creating Breathable Foods and an energy capsule, Edwards moved on to Wikicells, an edible packaging technology.
foam, or something else in a soft membrane held together by food particles that are being connected by electrostatic charges to each other and to a small amount of natural polymer."
Edwards storefront where people can eat his food experiments. Based on reports from Lab Store visitors, he believes that the membrane taste is satisfactory;
Rising Asian middle-class likely to change U s. agriculture The sophisticated food demands of newly affluent consumers in China
and other developing nations are likely to cause major change in U s. farming and food production, Asian food policy and world trade, according to Food 2040, a new study of emerging
food trends in Asia by the U s. Grains Council (USGC). USGC President and Chief executive officer Thomas C. Dorr presented a preview of Food 2040 at the U s. Department of agriculture annual Agricultural Outlook Forum. oegrowing affluence in China could change people diets
and the global food system. Consumers will expect more choice, quality, convenience and safety in their food purchases,
Dorr said. Food 2040 also reveals important implications for agricultural trade policy between the United states and Asian nations. oewe are seeing China become more open to acceptance of new technology,
such as agricultural biotechnology, which can help meet the needs of the Asian middle class in a sustainable manner through trade,
Dorr said. U s. attitudes about feeding the world are likely to change too. oemany of the agribusinesses
technology and policy reform to meet changing food demands and capture the economic potential of new Asian consumers
This way they don t have to leave work to get food and they ll be more productive.
If you are starting out you may not be able to provide the level of food services that Google
How technology gave us cheap food in huge quantities and why it has to stopin the fairly near future,
president of U s. operations at Elanco Animal health, has been a vocal advocate of oeproven technologies to assist farmers in delivering more food using fewer resources.
Citing Elanco acquisition of Chemgen a private food specialization company Aukerman promoted food enzymes earlier this year as oenatural digestives.
His concerns regarding food delivery are shared well. A 2010 symposium hosted by the Global Harvest Initiative in Washington
DC, promoted a need for continuous innovation to meet global food demand, with Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund arguing that
in order to do so, oethe footprint of food must be frozen. oeholding crop area fixed and assuming only historical yield growth,
food production will fall far short of the needs by 2050, Clay colleague, IHS global insight managing director of agricultural services John Kruse,
biotechnology genetic manipulation of food DNA to meet consumer desire has frequently been cited as the cause,
supply constraints mean that a 50%increase in food demand will exist by 2030. And Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe also cited rising production of biofuel
and the high subsidies it receives as the direct cause of rising food prices. oethe only difference is that with the food market you need 2,
Advances in bioechnology have helped us push food production to its limit. But with the exit of cheap food a strong reality, it is worth assessing how technology has allowed it to be produced in mass amounts
what the potential consequences of genetically modified organisms (GMOS) are, and what the global public role is in their use or disuse.
The world population of three billion that had arrived by 1960 gave way to the industrialized agriculture that defines food production today.
genetic modification involves manipulating the genetic makeup of food to create or enhance characteristics that are desired by humans.
and the 2000 discovery that modification can enrich foods using nutrients and vitamins has made biotechnology a global giant in the world of food production
DISNEY ANNOUNCES PAPER SOURCING AND USE POLICYBURBANK, CA, October 11, 2012 Disney today announced a new Paper Sourcing
In some cases, certain foods, such as cow's milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, yeast products, nuts,
The goal is to assess the transparency of the world ten biggest food and beverage companies concerning how their goods are produced,
Commentsview/Create comment on this paragraphconsumers have an ethical responsibility to be aware of how their food is produced,
Nestlã was the only company to achieve a oefair rating, with Associated British Foods at the bottom, with a oevery poor rating.
and to become known as truly transparent actors that produce food and beverages with a high degree of ethical responsibility.
such a campaign requires individual consumers to take it upon themselves to become better informed about the food
Whole Foods, which sells the company's greens in its Chicago stores, helped finance the new facility with a $100, 000 loan, Crain's previously reported.
whether synthetic biology that utilizes plants for food, energy, and medicine might lead to an increase or loss of biodiversity.
synthetic fuels, biofuels, electricity, hydrogen, etc. â agriculture and food production: engineered crops, pest control, fertilizers, etc. â environmental protection and remediation:
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