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"What are we going to eat in the near future ? "
What are we going to eat in our future?
You may ask yourself if it would be different than nowadays and especially what there will be on our plate in 2030? This date seems far for you, but it is in less than 12 years. The population is estimated to rise to 8.5 billion people in less than 15 years and approximately 9.8 billion people in 2050 while we are currently around 7.5 billion people in the world.
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This population growth will be a major problem for food. Indeed the resources will be inadequate in the future. Furthermore, in lots of countries the populations will suffer from malnutrition and under-nutrition.
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So we are interested in this subject and we have realized some research to know what we are going to eat soon.
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Introduction
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We saw that the 3D food printer will be soon more and more used in our lives. This printer uses capsules which enable a cook to insert some fresh or prepared produce. These stainless steel capsules are washable and reusable. We can do some chocolate sculpture, pasta, pizzas, desserts... In a nutshell if you have the adequate capsules you can do everything you want.
Verticals farms are also developing, 300 farms have already been built in Asia, North America and in Europe. It will be a way to produce more in a smaller space because the more population there is, the less we have space to produce and we have to produce more to be able to feed the population who will grow in the next years. Furthermore the urbanization impinges on agricultural land.
Dickson Despommier is the professor who imagined these farms in skyscrapers. This concept could bring producers and consumers closer. The food would be produced locally. All these characteristics could reduce considerably the issues linked to food transportation. All this would not change the town architecture and the production would not have to endure climatic variations. In a first step fruits, vegetables and cereals could be produced and in a second step we could imagine that poultry, pigs even cattle and fishes breeding could be organized in the same way.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has given its authorization because they think that it would be a good solution to provide for future basic needs.
According to Dickson Despommier a farm of 30 stairs could feed 300,000 people and would have a yield 5 times higher than a classic exploitation. With this estimation 150 farms would be enough to feed a city like New York for 1 year.
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You can watch this video which shows a projection of a vertical farm.
The edible seaweed would be also the food of the future. This new type of food respects the environment and has good nutritional benefits which Asians have known for a long time.
There could exist 20,000 edible species but only 50 would be pleasant to eat.
3D Food Print
Vertical Farms
Seaweed
Krill
Krill also named Euphausia superba may be part of our alimentation soon. This animal would represent 400 to 500 million tonnes of live matter, in other words 5 times more than the fishing of all the fishermen in the world.
The krill would have the same taste as shrimps even if its shell is not edible. In 2002 the Canadian company "Top Océan" launched the "meat of krill" but gave up quickly because of production costs.
Even if krill is a good resource we will need to control fishing so that it would not become an overexploitation.
Crickets / In vitro meat
On our blog we chose to concentrate our explanations on insects and in vitro meat. Indeed we chose these two parts because crickets are already eaten in some countries and may become more accessible in France in a near future but in vitro meat is at the moment unaccessible and it is just a project for a further future.
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