Posted on 05/24/2018 1:16:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
VIENNA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Banana trees that fit in a test tube. Burgers made without a cow in sight. Fish farmed in the desert. Robots picking fruit.
Welcome to the brave new world of food, where scientists are battling a global time-bomb of climate change, water scarcity, population growth and soaring obesity rates to find new ways to feed the future.
With one in nine people already short of enough food to lead a healthy, active life, supporters pushing for a Second Green Revolution argue without major changes hunger will become one of the biggest threats to national security and human health.
To tackle this looming crisis, scientists and agricultural experts are looking to the future - and back to the past - to find innovative ways to produce food.
But they admit getting billions of farmers globally - and consumers - to change will be a battle.
Bruce Campbell, director of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) - a global network of scientists - said agriculture had to change to meet global goals on climate change and ending poverty and hunger.
You need a revolution in the agriculture and food system within the next decade because without it, were never going to achieve any of the really important (global) goals that weve set, Campbell told the Thomson Reuters Foundation....
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Ping.
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!...................
This is a load of crap. Food famines and shortages are cause by bod governments. We could feed to the world five times over by converting alcohol crops to real food (I know I'll be flamed for that).
Lol what is made by God is nature’s best!
Just what we need is another Monsanto or Bayer program.
All BS but libtards eat this sh*t up.
To put this into perspective back in the halcyon days before "climate change, water scarcity, population growth" it was 50% in normal times. In times of famine it could go higher.
Now we produce enough food that there is "soaring obesity" rather then death by starvation.
So... what was their problem again?
“With one in nine people already short of enough food to lead a healthy, active life” STOP RIGHT THERE.... I know lots more than 9 people and NONE of them are having trouble finding, getting, growing or paying for more than enough food for their very active and healthy lives...I mean entire families I know never have or will go hungry.
Easy solution - Feed all libtards to pigs.
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!...................
Now with more democrats!
“a global time-bomb of climate change” - pseudoscience babble
“water scarcity” - impossible, most of the planet is covered in water
“population growth” - self-correcting problem. Any population that grows beyond the ability to feed itself will soon be back at a more manageable level.
“and soaring obesity rates” - another self-correcting problem
Lol what is made by God is natures best!
Nearly every human crop has been genetically engineered by humans over the past 10,000 years.
assuming all this test-tube food is even fit to eat AND nutritious, there’s still one big problem: the energy inputs are VERY likely to be much higher than just growing food and livestock feed in good ol’ fashioned dirt with good ol’ fashioned farm equipment, fertilizer, and irrigation.
If liberals think the world is going to end, there was plenty of research on this from the Cold War.
10 ways to feed ourselves after a global agricultural collapse
https://www.elsevier.com/connect/10-ways-to-feed-ourselves-after-a-global-agricultural-collapse
>>Banana trees that fit in a test tube. Burgers made without a cow in sight. Fish farmed in the desert. Robots picking fruit.
GMO, GMO, cultural appropriation, and discrimination against migrant Mexican labor...
What we need is for dogooders to shut up and go away.
Reuters is such a rag!
Warmer temps and CO2 = more food crop production, except in historically dry/frozen environs.
More food production = lower prices and ability to feed those peoples not having enough food in other parts of the world. ...........JMO
Welcome to the brave new world of food, where scientists are battling a global time-bomb of climate change
And I thought LSD use would go down after Jerry Garcia died.
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