has started an ‘accelerator’ for urban farming. John Deere is adopting smart farming machinery that uses GPS technology and machine learning to eliminate waste and create efficiencies. In New York, a company called Agritecture has cornered the market on urban-farming consulting, tapping into the controlledenvironment architecture industry – essentially, indoor farming – that will be valued at an estimated $9 billion in the next two years.
In this book, I look at four important aspects of the future of food, all of them underpinned by the urgent need to reevaluate when and how to – and if we should at all – apply morality to our food buying, growing, and producing choices. First, whether or not the farmers’ market ethos is truly sustainable, considering both the cost of producing these goods and the cost of purchasing them. Second, how the urbanization of the human race has ignored the need to integrate agriculture into city planning (and how this can be remedied). Next, how innovation and lab science can help conventional and organic farmers produce hardier, more efficient crops and more reliable yields. And finally, how information technology and computer science is offering truly outside-the-box, future-thinking solutions to current food crises.
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