Two and a half planets! This is what it would take to feed humanity in 2050. To get out of this impasse, start-ups, NGOs, industrialists, farmers, and scientists are working on a new food model. Overview of the solutions proposed by the adventurers of our plates.
“We know it, the apocalypse awaits us.”
The tone is half ironic.
But the observation made by Jonathan Caspi, co-founder of the Israeli start-up Mush Foods, which cultivates mushrooms for vegan or “hybrid” products, is clear: the food wall is inexorably approaching.
By 2050, less than three decades from now, demographic projections converge: the earth will be home to more than 10 billion people.
And if everyone aspired to feed themselves according to our Western consumption patterns, it would take between 2.5 and 3 planets to satisfy all appetites.
And above all 100 billion animals on the five continents, against 70 billion today.
The equation is “untenable”, recognize…
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