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but to do so will require the means to create reliable and sustainable food and power souces.

We are already researching ways to harvest food and energy in deeper, more remote parts of the ocean.

which in turn, enriches the food for the trees. In the near future, we will begin to tap into the technological potential of this metabolic diversity

the swelling global population and affluence is expected to increase demand for food production by 70,

when the global demand for food outpaced supply and famine was routine in places such as India and Pakistan,

the fundamental process that allows plants to use the light they capture to convert carbon dioxide into organic necessities like sugar and starch-or food,

you can also produce more food. In 2006, Long and his colleagues described how climate-change experiments have shown that rising atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide lead to higher rates of photosynthesis in plants.

Vitamin shakeincreasing the amount of food we produce is one thing. Producing nutritious food is another

according to Yassir Islam, spokesperson for Harvestplus, a nonprofit organisation looking to improve nutrient content in staple foods.

He says the next green revolution will have to be accompanied by a rethink about how nutritious the food is that we put on the table of millions of people every day.

These people live in parts of the world where their diets are dominated by staples oe foods such as rice, wheat, cassava,

Â Some academics and sustainable farming advocates see this type of farming as one more push toward industrialising food production and making more farmers dependent on agribusiness.

Â Given the imperative to expand the world's food supply, farmers need as much help as they can get even down to the acre,

"Previously we just raised food for humans and animals. In 2011 more corn went to biofuel than to feed for the first time in the US.

#Future Ag Can Better Food Create Better People? Radical transformations are brewing in the worlds oldest industry Can better food create better people?

Will a better food supply lead to healthier, stronger, better thinking people? This is exactly the premise that is driving many of the advances in farming today.

To understand agribusiness in the future, consider a model that conveniently exists right now in the human-food interface.

Metabolism is used a term to describe the various chemical reactions that take place in every cell of the body.

and monitor a persons metabolic reaction to the food eaten will cause the agriculture industry to evolve with great precision around the tiny niche demands of consumers.

The future of foods is smart foods. The food industry will resemble the bodys metabolism. Science will create real-time reactive sensors in our bodies that can read everything from the fluctuation of brainwaves, to micro changes in heartbeats, to gastro-digestive processes, to variations of skin perspiration rates.

This constant monitoring of hundreds if not thousands of bodily nuances will bring about healthier food choices and, more importantly,

Food orders will then be placed either automatically or with as much control as the person desires.

The order will go to the local food supplier, who will be in constant communication with regional suppliers,

and they will be in constant communication with the food producers. The entire supply chain architecture will be wired to the needs of the end user.

Much like the seemingly endless iterations of coffee at Starbucks, food from restaurants and fast food outlets will come in over a million variations.

Farmers will become expert at producing oejacked-in food stocks with countless variations, managed through computerized processes designed to manipulate the end results.

The regulatory system for insuring ultra-safe food supplies will be monitored constantly through automated data feeds at each step of the supply chain.

Leveraging Plant Intelligenceaside from growing food, new opportunities will emerge for oegrowing products. Our ability to manipulate produce will also enable us to manipulate plants in other ways.

has been framed around the idea of creating both below-surface and above-surface silos serving as vertical greenhouses for the production of food.

This coupled with the fact that it creates a year around farming operation on greatly expanded surface area has the ability to increase the earths ability to produce food a thousand fold.

Can you imagine producing a sustainable biofuel that doesnt impact on world food supplies? Charlie Paton, Michael Pawlyn and Bill Watts can

water and food in an area of desert known to be one of the hottest places on earth.

Multitasking renewable solutions It has often been said that there will be no one solution to solving the climate crisis and all those issues that surround it, such as energy sources, food prices and water supply.

and Seawater Greenhouses the design team has scaled vastly up the positive outputs of renewable energy, food production and fresh water supply.

the distance food traveled from farm-to-table increased 25, %ranging from 1, 500 to 3, 000 miles.

and even hyper-localize the growing of food supplies. The drive to make all food supplies local has touched off a number of battles to rewrite municipal codes to accommodate everything from rooftop gardens, to backyard cows and chickens

to aquaponic and aquaculture projects, to experimental vertical farms. The next shift with see crops grown underground.

Emergence of Food Printers-3d printing is a form of object creation technology where the shape of the objects are formed through a process of building up layers of material until all of the details are in place a relatively slow process often requiring hours to complete.

have created a very visual way for us to imagine next generation food that will come from similar 3d printers.

Look for continuing progress in the area of 3d food printers, even though the Jetson s style food synthesizers may still be a few years off.

More details here. 28. The Self-Health Movement No one cares more about your health than you do.

and the flavorings we add to food, the future will seem boring if our reality hasn t been augmented in some way. 2. Alternative Currency Bankers According to Javelin Strategies,

and frivolous clutter. 7. Urban Agriculturalists Why ship food all the way around the world when it can be grown next door Next generation produce-growing operations will be located underground,

and maintain the next wave of this technology. 13. 3d Food-Printer Engineers Pushing the envelope for 3d printer technology even further,

will be the coming age of food printers. Converting 3d printers to work with cartridges containing food-stocks will prove difficult and demanding on a number of levels.

Those who can solve this kind of problem will be in high demand. More details here. 14.

#The Coming Food Printer Revolution Futurist Thomas Frey: Would you buy a product that was advertised as Naturally grown, completely organic, printed food?#

#Anyone who has an apple tree growing in their yard knows how difficult it is to grow one that is worthy of eating straight off the tree.

#Only a small percentage of apples grown on the farm are worthy of making it into the major leagues of food the fresh produce section of our grocery stores.

This is the promise of food printer technology as we move from simply printing ink on paper

to 3d printing of parts and objects, to next generation food printers. These aren t the artificial food devices that science fiction movies have been promising.

Instead, they are devices with the very real potential for turning real apples into perfect apples.

What if it were possible to print a full plate of your favorite food that filled you up,

they certainly won t in a couple years as we learn the fine art of taking real food and turning it into amazingly transformed printed food.

The Digital Fabricator Next Generation Food Printers Food is a basic building block of life. We have a hard time going longer than a day without it.

The food we eat has become a key part of our culture, our entertainment, and our physical health.

In fact, food touches virtually everything we do, yet we are cooking less and growing more and more dependent on others for the food we eat.

Marcelo Coelho and Amit Zoran a couple ingenious minds at MIT working on the Cornucopias Project,

have created a very visual way for us to imagine next generation food that will come from printers.

Amit Zoran has developed a series of digital devices that may one day be use to produce the food we eat.

The virtuoso mixer, the robotic chef and the digital fabricator all aim to bring the tools we use to make food up to date with digital technology.

Cornucopia printer Cornucopias printing process begins with an array of food canisters filled with the cook s#foods of choice.

allowing for very exact and elaborate combinations of food. Philips food printer Philips Food Creation#device has been inspired by the so-called molecular gastronomists.

These are chefs who deconstruct food and then reassemble it in completely different ways. The food printer works with various edible ingredients and then combine

and print them in the desired shape and consistency. James King s Dressing the Meat of Tomorrow James King s Dressing the Meat of Tomorrow,#is a project that examines how we can best design in-vitro meat

and other artificial foods of the future in order to remind ourselves what they are and where they came from.

Yanko Design s prototype for the Electrolux Molã culaire food printer The brilliant thinkers at Yanko Design have developed a new device called the Electrolux Molã culaire,

a 3d molecular food printer that relies on the experimental molecular cooking technology. New designs for printed food The Molã culaire is based on the same layer-by-layer printing technique that arranges small particles from a set of ingredients.

Within minutes, it prints out three-dimensional desserts, complex structures, shapes for molecular dishes, and patterns for decorating a meal.

Virtually limitless food presentation styles and techniques According to Yanko Design, you simply insert a blister pack into the reservoir, place Molã culaire on top of a plate,

and press the start button. Users can also create their own recipes with special software and their own ingredients.

we will need to reimagine the entire process of getting food from the farm to the dinner table.

Food printer technology is clearly a quantum leap forward. In the future, we will only be consuming food that our body has a positive reaction to.

As an example, people in the future will be able to order a 13.2%fat cheeseburger with 2. 7 grams of potassium and 3. 6 grams of calcium, coupled with a hint of almond and banana flavoring, on a sesame seed

We will be transitioning from a distinct set of crop options in the past to an unlimited number of food options in the future.

Will the primary food-stock differentiators be grown into the food, or will they simply be added as a step in the food processing line?

My guess is that it will be a combination of both. There is no such thing as a pork molecule#The labels we use today to describe our diets, labels such as vegetarian, Kosher, glucose free, vegan,

which foods our body has a positive reaction to. There are no such things as a pig molecules,

growing, and harvesting of today s food production systems. U s. farmers are clearly on the cutting edge of the world s ag industry

and more durable food supply chain than ever in the past. But at the same time, we are sitting on the cusp of a new wave of innovation.

Information overlays that are possible on smart contacts Photo credits Fast Company Does it sound appealing to look at a plate of food

#New Traceability Rule Represents Major Adjustment for U s. Food industry Where does your food come from?

In response to a new federal food safety law and growing consumer interest, vast amounts of new data are being generated about the complicated path that food takes from field to supermarket shelf.

A provision of the federal food safety law passed last year requires that all players in the countrys food supply chain be able to quickly trace from

whom they received a food product and to whom they sent it. Theyll have to maintain that information in digital form,

The one step forward, one step back#traceability requirement#for processed food and produce#is designed to make it easier for the Food

and swiftly remove it from the food supply. The new requirement represents a major adjustment for some parts of the nations food system,

as the government imposes standards and electronic record-keeping on an industry where small players still rely on handshakes and paper invoices.

The FDA has had trouble quickly pinpointing the source of national outbreaks of food-borne illness a task complicated by a lengthy food supply chain where tomatoes might change hands five times from farm to store.

Many in the food business already are using traceability technology, mostly relying on bar codes that can be affixed after harvesting to a piece of fruit or a crate.

which covers food other than meat, poultry and egg products. They are competing to develop the tracking technology

#said David Acheson, former assistant commissioner for food protection at the FDA. Somebody is probably going to make a bundle of money out of this.#

and adopting it to the food business. He said traceability helps not only with safety but also allows companies to hold their partners along the chain accountable for moving food quickly

and avoiding spoilage. Its about allowing people to make more intelligent decisions by providing accurate

But according to a 2009 investigation by the Department of health and Human Servicess inspector general, most food facilities surveyed did not meet those requirements

who are interested increasingly in the way food is produced. Harvestmark, based in California, has developed a two-dimensional bar code sticker that can be placed on individual fruits and vegetables or packaging.

and enter the number from the sticker to learn the path the food has taken and other information the farmer chooses to share,

With very high-profile food recalls, cellphones and iphones, people have been trained that they can access information very quickly.

Not only does the technology provide information about the food, but it also allows the consumer to send a comment to the farmer,

Its about using technology to put people back in touch with the people who grow their food.#

the smell or taste of food. The general premise is that these sensory and cognitive technologies will convert computers from glorified calculators into true thinking machines.

#This understanding of the chemical elements of food could help people get healthier by subbing in something that tastes like milk chocolate

and darting electric vehicles as workers with headsets are directed to cases of food by a computer that speaks to them in four languages.

and on command will race along an aisle until it reaches its destination#a case of food to retrieve

From the aisle, the robots wait their turn to pull into a special open lane where they deposit each load into an elevator that sends a stream of food cases down to a conveyor belt that leads to a large robot arm.

the cases of food moving through the robotic warehouse are like the digital bits being processed by the computer.

and retrieves cases of food. That led to the elimination of 106 jobs roughly 20 percent of the work force.

Sous vide#a process in which food is heated over a very long period in a low-temperature water bath#has been used in high-end restaurants for more than a decade.

now supplies food to grocery stores and the U s. military. Your local Costco or Wegmans may sell perfectly cooked sous vide lamb shanks, osso buco or turkey roulade.

Unlike most meals in the freezer aisle, sous vide food can be reheated in a pot of boiling water

And because sous vide makes it almost impossible to overcook food, it s perfect for the home cook.

Reduce, Reuse, Masticate It s depressing to think how much food packaging there is in your kitchen right now#all those juice cartons, water bottles and ice-cream containers.

And so he has devised a way to convert foods into shell-like containers and films that he calls Wikicells.

director of the Technology Strategy Board s sustainable agriculture and food projects, said, Addressing animal health and welfare challenges and improving animal performance monitoring are vital pieces of the food security jigsaw.

and the need for sustainable food sources grow, solutions involving technology and urban farming become more prevalent.

all discussing genetically modified crops and starkly different versions of the future of food. One one hand we have the state of affairs in the US.

and just as-productive vision supported explicitly by food activists, and less-vocally but essentially by the UN as well.

as well as genuine concern about corporate control of food through that technology. by Mat Mcdermott via Treehugger Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati R

Thinking beyond traditional delivery systems, flying drones could be used to deliver food, packages, water, change out the batteries in your home, remove trash and sewage,

3d Food Printers-As we shop for apples in the grocery store, we find ourselves looking for the perfect apple.#

#Only a small percentage of apples grown on the farm are worthy of making it into the major leagues of food the fresh produce section of our grocery stores.

This is the promise of food printer technology as we move from simply printing ink on paper

to 3d printing of parts and objects, to next generation food printers. These aren t the artificial food devices that science fiction movies have been promising.

Instead, they are devices with the very real potential for turning real apples into perfect apples.

Future plant monitors will give us the ability to communicate#with our plants and produce far more sophisticated forms of food. 20.

Auquaponics Tech For those of you not familiar with the term, aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines traditional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as fish, crayfish,

They touch on jobs, education, crime, food supplies, and most importantly, the future. Join me as we take a look at the future through the eyes of the past. 10.

Continue reading here. 3.)The Coming Food Printer Revolution Would you buy a product that was advertised as Naturally grown, completely organic, printed food?#

#Only a small percentage of apples grown on the farm are worthy of making it into the major leagues of food the fresh produce section of our grocery stores.

This is the promise of food printer technology as we move from simply printing ink on paper

to 3d printing of parts and objects, to next generation food printers. These aren t the artificial food devices that science fiction movies have been promising.

Instead, they are devices with the very real potential for turning real apples into perfect apples.

and Qatar is now more than 85 percent self-sufficient in food production and self sufficient in water thanks to an affordable osmosis from salt water technique perfected by a young Qatari student at Texas A&m University in 2028

Food in Qatar is assembled commonly by nanomachines. This food is externally indistinguishable from natural food.

It can be made more wholesome as production can be controlled at the molecular level phasing out the crude genetic modification.

This technology decouples food production from the availability of natural resources. It saves a huge cost,

of which use the same hydroponic food growing techniques perfected in Qatar) making it a truly intergalactic capital city.

She brought food to his desk when he was immersed too to realize his hunger. He s still doing the 7 a m. to 4 a m. days,

I m making a bigger difference in the lives of others by applying my knowledge and capital to food production,

While it s true that Sub-saharan africa as a whole still leads the world in poverty and food insecurity rates,

food production now outpaces population growth. In Ghana, for instance, farm output has jumped by 5 percent every year for the past 20 years,

Even infamously food-insecure Malawi and Ethiopia now grow record amounts of crops and even export surpluses to their neighbors.

Against the new reality, international food agencies that spent decades proclaiming Africa s inevitable doom are being forced to shift their rhetoric.

including the Gates Foundation, the International Food Policy Research Institute, Columbia University s Earth Institute,

and increasingly essential to a sustainable food economy for the entire world. 1. More Africans now live in cities Africa is the most rapidly urbanizing region on the planet.

Africa s city dwellers spend roughly half their incomes on food, and as their ranks have grown#y 4 percent per year#mall farmers located on the urban perimeters have responded,

offering food that s cheaper and fresher than what gets trucked in from further out.#

Food brokers, for instance, can aggregate the efforts of small holders quickly and inexpensively; what s more, much of the software they use to do that is designed by and for African programmers.

Multinational food broker VP Group regularly buys from about 5000 small farms near Nairobi. Thanks to text messages and the mobile Internet, it can now collect produce from the field,

European opposition to GM food remains high, and U s. donors, such as the Gates Foundation, have been reluctant to promote the bioengineering of African crops.

too. 7. Government support for food producers is getting better Everyone agrees that African farmers remain heavily inhibited by poor governance.

many African governments ease the importation of foreign-grown food. In Ghana, for instance, canned tomato paste from Italy, frozen chickens from Brazil,

In Tanzania, ham-handed bans on exports of some staples have resulted in food rotting in the fields.

and South Sudan, where local shortages of food can be severe and frequent. With more customers now within easier reach,

#oeuganda is now a food basket for East Africa, #stated the October 2012 World bank report#oeafrica Can Feed Africa.#

because women produce up to 80 percent of the region s food. At urban markets, legions of#oemarket women#buy food wholesale

The best hedge against potential food shortages created by climate change? Bringing Africa s hundreds of millions of hectares of fertile unused farmland into production. 10.

A remaining challenge is the equitable distribution of food. Part of the solution lies in improved links between African countries whose postcolonial borders often don t make geographic sense and place artificial barriers between areas of surplus food production and areas of deficit.

In a recent paper Steven Haggblade identifies#oebreadbasket#regions that routinely produce food surpluses and finds that most are close to areas that must import food.

Kenya, for instance, leads East Africa in dairy and wheat production, while neighboring Uganda produces surpluses of maize and other staples;

yet parts of western and northern Kenya face a chronic struggle for food. What Africa needs most#nd is increasingly getting,

Haggblade reports#s more commerce between the food-rich and the food-poor. To be sure, hunger remains a specter in Africa for a small but significant minority of people.

There continue to be hunger seasons and hunger zones. But for many Africans, the experience of hunger is shifting#nd in the right direction.

in the central part of the country, their struggle to provide enough food was heart-wrenching.

And yet collective action has ended now largely Malawi s seasonal food shortages. The government began giving farm families such as the Bairds a discount on the purchase of fertilizer and hybrid seeds

whether Sub-saharan africa can produce enough food to feed its people. It can#nd can feed some of the rest of the world too.

And that, in turn, could conceivably reduce the public disquiet over GM foods. Or maybe not.

and learn food literacy, as well as to preserve knowledge that our grandparents might have had but that never got passed down,

and to provide fresh organic produce for local food pantries.##Website: http://www. nopl. org/library-farm Santa Suits#atrons start reserving them in September at the Bolivar County Library System in Mississippi.#

and publishing center (Sacramento Public library, Sacramento, CA) Wine tasting fundraiser Wine & Words (Huntington Beach Public library, Huntington Beach, CA) Food trucks and international food

donated over 1, 000 hats to local food pantry, hospice center, spouse abuse shelter, and shipped hats to soldiers overseas.#

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Participants make an object out of food that represents a book. The objects are judged then and eaten.

#New LED light technology sheds light on the future of food LED growing lights, delivering sunlight whatever the weather.

This century, the challenges of growing enough food to feed the world have grown more severe.

And we need to incorporate zero-waste and low-energy technologies into the task of food production.

Video) What can achieve the intensification of food supply we require, but in a way that is also sustainable and less harmful to the environment?

There is an urgent need to develop new methods for sustainable food production. This includes a greater emphasis on urban agriculture such as vertical farming which,

properly designed and planned, could provide the sustainable means to improve food supply we need.

There is potential for these multifunctional techno-greenhouses built around LED grow lights to increase the quality of the food we eat