Special Report: The Age of Plenty There’s a surging current of alarm that we’re headed for a food doomsday by 2050—that the world’s food-producing capacity will crash before the population peaks at 10 billion. But agricultural productivity will rise to the challenge. That’s what IEEE Spectrum’s editors discovered when they dug into the topic. Their harvest was a bumper crop of information on the emerging technologies and techniques for growing, preparing, and tracking food that will allow us to feed all those hungry mouths. Farmers now apply the precision of computing to the ancient art of cultivation (“Farming by the Numbers”); improved software and sensors monitor crop yields and even predict them weeks in advance (“Stopping Starvation by Satellite”); and a mash-up of fish farming and hydroponic vegetable cultivation may someday be the key to food security even where arable land is unavailable (“The Indoor Aquaponics Farm”). spectrum.ieee.org/static/the-age-of-plenty
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:07:20 +0000
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