Technology Quarterly
Future Food
Food
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Can the whole first-world food system be changed, asks Jon Fasman
- The new Anthropocene diet: Technology can help deliver cleaner, greener delicious food
- Mooving on: Cows are no longer essential for meat and milk
- Cell-side markets: Meat no longer requires animal slaughter
- Culture club: Microbes are being used more and more to make delicious food
- Green castles in the sky: Vertical farms are growing more and more vegetables in urban areas
- Features and bugs: Feeding 9bn people will mean reimagining the edible world
The new Anthropocene diet
Technology can help deliver cleaner, greener delicious food
Whether consumers want it is another question, says Jon Fasman
Culture club
Microbes are being used more and more to make delicious food
A new realm of “precision fermentation” beckons
Green castles in the sky
Vertical farms are growing more and more vegetables in urban areas
They don’t need soil or sunlight
Features and bugs
Feeding 9bn people will mean reimagining the edible world
More insects are likely to be on the menu
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The other environmental emergency
Protecting biodiversity
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Technology has a growing role to play in monitoring, modelling and protecting ecosystems, writes Catherine Brahic
- The other environmental emergency: Loss of biodiversity poses as great a risk to humanity as climate change
- Sensors and sensibility: All kinds of new technology are being used to monitor the natural world
- Cracking the code: The sequencing of genetic material is a powerful conservation tool
- Crowdsourced science: How volunteer observers can help protect biodiversity
- Simulating everything: Compared with climate, modelling of ecosystems is at an early stage
- Back from the dead: Reviving extinct species may soon be possible
- Bridging the gap: Technology can help conserve biodiversity
- Sources and acknowledgments