
JUST A QUICK LOOK AT THE RISING PRICES OF FOOD
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Over 9 billion people are expected to inhabit the planet by 2050 and the challenge of providing them with enough food to live without destroying the environment is increasingly tough.
Dr Philip Thornton, of the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, said: “One [solution] is artificial meat, which is made in a giant vat.”
He added that another could be the use of nanotechnology, or molecular engineering, to deliver medication to livestock, which could increase their efficiency.
Other answers put forward were: increased yields from plants due to higher levels of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on which they feed; genetic modification; lowering food waste by encouraging people only to buy what they will use; or by developing food technology so agriculture produces less greenhouse gases.
However, some scientists warned that progress could be hindered by the amounts of information being controlled by some big multinationals in the sector, such as Monsanto.
Professor Jenifer Piesse, an international business expert at King’s College, London, said: “This represents a threat to the global commons in agricultural technology on which the green revolution has depended.”
The suggestions were presented in a range of papers published by the Royal Society, the Guardian reported.
The newspaper noted that more than one in seven people in the world do not have enough protein and energy.