{"id":40817,"date":"2018-11-22T06:45:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T11:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40817"},"modified":"2018-11-22T06:45:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T11:45:22","slug":"the-battle-for-the-future-of-farming-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40817","title":{"rendered":"The battle for the future of farming: what you need to\u00a0know"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The battle for the future of farming: what you need to\u00a0know<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is widely agreed that today\u2019s global agriculture system is a social and environmental failure<\/a>. Business as usual is no longer an option: biodiversity loss and nitrogen pollution are exceeding planetary limits<\/a>, and catastrophic risks of climate change demand immediate action<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most concede that there is an urgent need to radically transform our food systems. But the proposed innovations for more sustainable food systems are drastically different. Which we choose will have long-lasting effects on human society and the planet.<\/p>\n

Suggested innovations in food systems can be broadly understood<\/a> as either seeking to conform with \u2013 or to transform \u2013 the status quo.<\/p>\n

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The future of farming is ours to decide.<\/span> Raggedstone\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A technological future<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some want to keep the agriculture industry as close to existing practices as possible. This is true of the increasing number of corporate and financial actors who seek to solve the food crisis by developing new technologies. These technologies are envisaged as being part of what is being called the \u201cfourth industrial revolution<\/a>\u201d (4IR). The \u201canswer\u201d here is thought to lie in a fusion of technologies that blurs the lines between physical, digital and biological domains.<\/p>\n

For example, the World Economic Forum is currently supporting agricultural transitions in 21 countries through its \u201cNew Vision for Agriculture\u201d initiative. This initiative supports \u201cinnovation ecosystems\u201d to re-engineer food systems based on \u201c12 transforming technologies<\/a>\u201d. In this imagined future, next generation biotechnologies will re-engineer plants and animals. Precision farming will optimise use of water and pesticides. Global food systems will rely on smart robots, blockchain and the internet of things to manufacture synthetic foods for personalised nutrition.<\/p>\n

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The battle for the future of farming: what you need to\u00a0know It is widely agreed that today\u2019s global agriculture system is a social and environmental failure. Business as usual is no longer an option: biodiversity loss and nitrogen pollution are exceeding planetary limits, and catastrophic risks of climate change demand immediate action. Most concede that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,72,141,23164,299,7276,23165,5720,19538,23166,23167,690,769,786,8487],"class_list":["post-40817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-agriculture","tag-biodiversity","tag-climate-change","tag-colin-anderson","tag-farming","tag-food-systems","tag-global-agricultural-system","tag-industrial-agriculture","tag-michel-pimbert","tag-nitrogen-pollution","tag-planetary-limits","tag-risk","tag-sustainability","tag-technology","tag-the-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40818,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40817\/revisions\/40818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}