ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Vertical Farming, Piggies, Just Eat
5 Apr 2018
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Food production and global change: vertical farming, raising plants or animals in a greenhouse and large scale on a urban environment (eg. skyscraper) If current trends continues, there will be disaster for human species: doomsday model, collapse of human society, malthus, positive checks. International agencies of agricultural advancements that are available to very poor people: cannot afford seeds in the first place. Increases in food prices: people only are trying to live on a few dollars a day, rise in adult obesity - 1975 - 2014, food insecurity, high calorie. Less-healthy: highly processed, epigenetic factors, traits passed between generations not due to dna, due to environmental effects on hormones and toher chemicals transmitted alongside the dna also due to environmental programming during growth and developmentt, eg. Food scarsity: most of the malnourished lives in undeveloped countries, environmental costs of green revolution, environmental degredation, 1/4 of all agricultural nitrogen leaches into groundwater, algal blooms (?)
