As climate change worsens and the global population rises, we risk food shortages worldwide. Are organic farming and hydroponics the key to farming’s future?

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Unpredictable weather patterns are forcing farmers to adopt new methods to maintain a viable business while making food production as efficient as possible.

A small farm in south Dakota has turned to organic farming and invested in their dirt while others have taken climate out of the equation and invested in hydroponics, growing vegetables in large warehouses.

In the last of our What Happens Next, we explore the future of food through farming.

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Future of Food: Farming in the age of climate change

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  • Fahad AlAbsi

    We speak about 9 Billion People but in reality, we are not feeding half of that even when we are having excess crops or food, we need to change first to appreciate Human lives and improving lifestyle, culture of sharing over the ​culture of selling or burning food before we exaggerate the numbers to drive new technologies who are only going to cater to restaurants and 5 star hotels

  • Just Curious

    @Vertical farming without sunlight:
    Many people underestimate the gigantic amount of energy the sun is providing.
    1 m² of soil gets about 1000 (Germany) or 2000 (Arizona) kWh of solar irradiation per year.
    And even the most efficient LED only convert a fraction of the electricity into light.

    Okay, there are some options to increase efficiency, for instance not wasting electricity to produce green light, which the plants can't use.

    Nevertheless you would need extremely much electricity to grow nourishing food (calories!) for many people.
    My optimistic assumption: 1 GW permanent power (e.g. nuclear) could feed 100.000 people. A plant-based diet of course, no meat, no milk,…

    If such "food-factories" will play a role in the future, it won't be the supply of calories.

  • raise consciousness

    Industrial Farmers only have 10" of topsoil left. Not addressing it as a national security Issue says a lot about the lack of transparency in our shrinking democracy. It takes hundreds of years to recapture a inch of top soil. Modern agriculture is pure evil. Hint the rise of frankenfoods. 2030 RISE OF THE MACHINES. Citizenry will be the new peasantry.

  • Cade Hartung

    The organic farmers that we saw in the beginning and at the end are what the best conventional farmers are doing today. Constant monitoring of the soil’s nutrients and organic matter in essential to sustainable farming. On our conventional farm since we switched to a no till operation 15 years ago we have noticed big difference in our organic matter and the soil’s ability to hold moisture has increased. We seed wheat, barley, canola, and peas in a four year rotation to help manage disease, weeds and insects so that we are not 100% reliant on pesticides. This also reduces our input costs. What I’m trying to say is that you don’t have to farm organically and drive food prices up at the consumer level to farm sustainability and ethically.

  • Atlas Tobin

    So called "cultured meat" and genetically engineered food that doesn't use pesticides or fertilizers is the future…
    GMOs could also reverse climate change…

  • Getranke Nomimono

    Ok, now that we're out of election season and Quartz has decided to pull their head out of their ass Ive subscribed. If I was to have made a production on the topic of farming and ecology it had touched on all these points.

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