Eat in the future •
By 2050, the Earth's population will be about ten billion.This means we will need to increase food production tofeed almost three billion more people. But how can we dothat without destroying the planet?In the past, whenever we needed to produce more food, wesimply cut down forests or ploughed grasslands to make morefarms and '_-.2_has caused the loss of whole ecosystemsaround the globe, including the prairies of NorthAmerica, the Atlantic forest of South America and someof the steppes of Central Asia. We can no longer do this.Scientists believe one solution to the problem is verticalfarming. This is a method for growing?_ indoors in ahighly controlled environment. The vertical farms, whichwill be in ^_in urban areas, will use new techniques,such as hydroponics and aeroponics, allowing farmers togrow plants without any' ... 11..modified food Scientists