Yogesh MalikFuture is already here, it is just unevenly distributed. Technology Evangelist and Digital FuturistJun 6 · 4 min read

Why You Will End Up Eating Bugs And Insects?Future Of Food

By 2050, we will need 30% more food and 40% more water compared towhat we have today, and global food system is already failing.

Traditional agriculture takes a lot of water, and in developing countries it isworse than that; there are no efficiencies in place. Flood, heat waves, andlocal political issues add up more issues.

There are not many options to look forward to, and only some of the recenttechnological innovations are looking promising to end the future worldhunger

How Technology Will Solve WorldFood Problem?Considering the fact that agricultural and food industry involve a wide rangeof companies from big machines to medicines to packaging; that need variousresources. Two new technologies have entered into this value chain:

AgTech: Agricultural Technology

FoodTech: Food Technology

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Investments in agriculture technology startups surged to a record $4.6 billionin 2015 despite a steep drop in U.S. farm income and slumping profit.

Food Tech could have started with NASA when they took culinary art to newheights in orbit out of this earth.

Vertical FarmingThis will allow growing crops in the urban environment; anywhere on the topof the building, in the car park, on walls. Green Sense Farms were able toharvest 26 times a year using 85% less energy than traditional methods.

How Technology Will Change What We Eat?

Lab-Grown MeatMay not sound appetizing at all, but that may change our world and what weeat in the future? Duch Researcher and Inventor of Lab Grown Meant, Mr.Verstrate told BBC:-

“It consisted of protein, muscle fibre. But meat is much more than that it is blood,its fat its connective tissue, all of which adds to the taste and texture”

3D Food Printer3D printing has been around for a while and not its there in your kitchen too.Luxury dining or not, but very much environment-friendly. A realcombination of art, food and technology. You should track the availability ofFoodini, a 3D food printer.

Pizza, confectionary items, pasta and what not. Go on and print your owndesign and size. You need to wait before 3D food printers invade our gourmetuniverse.

Micro LivestockCrickets, grasshoppers, worms will take over ahead of global meatcommunity. And, compared with cows and other large livestock, insects raisedon an industrial scale require far less land and water and emit less heat-trapping gas

But you don’t’ have to be scared of all this because in the commercial messagethey will put all this insect thing in the background and the great and juicyproduct in the foreground

Meat From The Sewage Mud:Never underestimate the power of poo. Japanese Scientists Create Meat FromPoop. Believe it? no. Nobody knows as the story is not convincing enough as ofnow. Media is still hoping that the inventor of poop burger will get back withsome more information. If this thing comes true you will need to stand in theline to buy sewage mud.

Living Insects Farms At Your Desktop:You will be raising insects at home and cooking delicious and high proteinmeals, you don’t need to understand agriculture and food value chain system.Well, for some, growing insects at home could be the first measure to makeinsects a healthy and sustainable food for everyone

Cricket flour provides an environmentally friendly and sustainable source ofprotein and nutrition. Do you think current protein bars will be replacedbycricket flour bars?

Food Data Centers:Food Computer is a conntrolled environment technology platform usesrobotic systems to control and monitor climate, energy, and plant growthinside of a specialized growing chamber.

Food Data Centers will be like warehouse/container with vertical farmmodules to grow various crops

Source: EmergingTechIndia.com written by Yogesh Malik

So, what’s on your menu tonight? Anyone trying anynew recipes?

Co-founder of Eat Grub told

“They are tasty, nutritious and sustainable and we feel it’s only a matter oftime before they are appreciated for the great food source they are here in theWest.”

Scientists predicts that cockroach milk could be the superfood of the future

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