Creative Way To Prevent World Hunger In the Future

WorldInFuture — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:58:39 +0000

In article named Would You Like To Drink The Air? we talked about the problem of lack of drinking water even with fact that 70% of Earth is covered by water. Food is even a bigger problem. By the year 2050, the human population will count 9 billion people approximately. That is 50% more people than today. More people equals more food, but there is over 80% of the land that is suitable for raising crops (world wide) in use today (sources: FAO and NASA). So, by today’s standards, if we use current techniques, there will be not enough food for whole world population (even today we have huge problems in Africa and in some other parts of the world ).

Vertical Farm Project offers a solution:

The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new is the urgent need to scale up this technology to accommodate another 3 billion people. An entirely new approach to indoor farming must be invented, employing cutting edge technologies. The Vertical Farm must be efficient (cheap to construct and safe to operate). Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world’s urban centers. If successfully implemented, they offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply (year-round crop production), and the eventual repair of ecosystems that have been sacrificed for horizontal farming.

Designs

Piramid Farm by Eric Ellingsen and Dickson Despommier

"The Living Skyscraper: Farming the Urban Skyline" by Blake Kurasek

Zabeel Park Vertical Farm

"VF - Type O" by Oliver Foster

Source: Vertical Farm Project

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Creative Way To Prevent World Hunger In the Future