Famine… or feast? Soil… or hydroponics, aquaponics, aquaculture or aeroponics?
Nine billion hungry human beings will be living on planet Earth by 2050. “We will need to produce more food in the first half of this century than we did in the previous 100 centuries combined,” declared Tony Kajewski, president of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Along with an increasing population, the world faces climate change, rising fossil fuel prices, ecosystem degradation, and water and land scarcity.
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The Future of Farming, Part 1: Controlling the Environment
Posted by: Ned Madden August 6, 2013 05:00 AMFamine… or feast? Soil… or hydroponics, aquaponics, aquaculture or aeroponics?
Nine billion hungry human beings will be living on planet Earth by 2050. “We will need to produce more food in the first half of this century than we did in the previous 100 centuries combined,” declared Tony Kajewski, president of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Along with an increasing population, the world faces climate change, rising fossil fuel prices, ecosystem degradation, and water and land scarcity.