Food Production, Processing and Distribution to 16 March 2012
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Nature is very clever when it comes to creating packaging for perishable foodstuffs. Most fruits and vegetables, for example, come pre-wrapped in delicious edible containers. David Edwards, the biomedical engineer who came up with huffable food , is now developing customized edible containers for all kinds of food, from juice to wine to chocolate.
WikiCell bottles are food containers that you can eat
“Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong for ever,” [Margaret] said.
Wendell E. Berry Lecture | National Endowment for the Humanities
15 March 2012 Last updated at 21:48 ET By Victoria King Political reporter, BBC News
Why you might want to look a bit closer at what you're eating
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Inside the pantry, out in the yard, wearing a brown paper bag: Your next meal’s been playing hide and seek. Game over. Forage is open.
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We Forage
You bring us the best of your backyard: Your tangerines, limes, blood oranges, avocados, carrots, kale, kumquats, tangelos, mustard greens, lettuce. The list goes on and on in a seemingly never-ending bounty.In Portland, food carts fill a parking lot with lines stretching onto the sidewalk. (Photo by camknows.)
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What is the scope of these kinds of products to fundamentally change either the demand for land (to produce 'proper' meat) or the way in which land is used? by Mar 16
Indoor farm in Brooklyn helps feed hundreds of families
In Bedford-Stuyvesant, an increasingly hip but historically low-income Brooklyn neighborhood, one food pantry is also an indoor farm.The sophisticated food demands of newly affluent consumers in China and other developing nations are likely to cause major change in U.S. farming and food production, Asian food policy and world trade, according to Food 2040, a new study of emerging food trends in Asia by the U.S.
Rapid rise of Asian middle class to revamp global food systems | U.S. Grains Council - Tukwila Reporter
Yes we do, but I should say, I've been using a slide set containing this trend for c. 2 years now and a lot of people have seen it. If others consider action is required, I'm hopeful the prioritisation process will bring out the risk ranking around these issues. by Mar 16
Clearly a need to develop our understanding of the implications for land use and food security. by Mar 16
Parents back pre-watershed junk food advertising ban
6 March 2012 Last updated at 22:29 ET By Katherine Sellgren BBC News education reporter
5 March 2012 Last updated at 06:21 ET
Sun-dried tomatoes linked to hepatitis A outbreak
Here’s a solution to our ever-growing plastic problem: package food and beverage items in edible packaging that’s actually good enough to eat. Dr. David Edwards, a professor at Harvard, is working on it.
In The Future, You Will Eat Your Food Packaging, And It Will Be Delicious
Dr. David Edwards, a professor at Harvard University, is working on the WikiCells project that looks into creating edible packaging. A few years ago, Edwards collaborated with French designer François Azambourg on an edible bottle that’s made from organic materials and is biodegradable.
Edible Packaging Lets You Drink A Beverage & Eat The Bottle Too
Muji Creates Design Exhibit On How To Use Less Packaging
Prompted by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan a year ago, Japanese retailer Muji is hosting an exhibit at the London Design Museum that rethinks how design impacts the way we use energy. Product Fitness 80 reconsiders what makes good product design. We constantly question if we have used excessive materials; whether products are overpackaged, or are their sizes and weights too much; can we reduce waste in the ordering, manufacturing or transportation of products?While sunlight contains all colors, the dominant type of chlorophyll in plants only needs purple light to function.
Growing Plants in the Dark
Does this have any significant implications for 'demand for land', and if so over what timescales? Moreover does it offer significant opportunities in terms of reducing the carbon footprint of the agriculture sector? by Mar 16
Thanks both. This pearltree was developed to bring out in more detail, the items which are relevant to the FSA, however, due to the nature of the partnership, I think they'll be relevance to others too as Richard suggests.
Wendy: I like our link up as you are coming at this from a slightly different angle which keeps me and the CERF Futures team open-minded. Furthermore, I really like the way in which we can share across our pearltrees, so I'd be grateful if you didn't 'un-link'. by futuristfi Mar 16
Let me reassure you, I'm trying to take over or revise anything! I'm just one of the wider partners that CERF work with (and who collectively agreed the Key Factor headings - so I'm definitely not wanting to change them!), and as such I'm trying to feed in a bit of added value that might help CERF to spot 'hits' that NE are really interested in. I fully appraciate that others will have different priorities. Fiona is encouraging the partners to make these contributions in the hope/expectation that it will increase the value of the scanning in general and the quarterly newsletters in particular. by rwilson Mar 16
I assume you are with Fiona's team? Bear in mind that I am not scanning for NE, I am scanning for general futures research purposes. If that is a problem for the team's research, I will unteam from 'Food Production, Processing, and Distribution', and simply put all my food-related hits into the larger category of Food, until I get around to subcategorising those hits (as I am the 'owner' of Food). You might want to think about three subcategories for the Food Production, Processing, and Distribution hits, since you've got such a clear logic structure articulated.... by wendyinfutures Mar 16
The hits that I think are of greatest interest to NE are: a) those which hint at game-changers in the competition for use of the land resource, production v environment; b) those that hint at moves towards or away from the possibility of genuinely integrated, multiple use of the land resource; and c) those that have implications for wider environmental and resource issues e.g. CC mitigation/adaptation, petro-chemical inputs, diffuse pollution. by rwilson Mar 16