{"id":264648,"date":"2024-11-15T21:05:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T21:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/does-this-high-tech-lettuce-hold-the-answer-to-the-global-food-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:28","slug":"does-this-high-tech-lettuce-hold-the-answer-to-the-global-food-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/does-this-high-tech-lettuce-hold-the-answer-to-the-global-food-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Does this high-tech lettuce hold the answer to the global food crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bathed in a ghostly purple-red light, these floating lettuces are barely distinguishable from those grown outdoors, but require one-tenth as much land. The high-tech greenhouse where they live, in Maasbree in the Netherlands, is one possible remedy for a global food industry in crisis<\/a>, facing a shortage of land due to climate change and conflict.<\/p>\n

In his new book, Food for Thought<\/i><\/a>, photographer Kadir van Lohuizen captures the food industry\u2019s struggle with these challenges, taking a whistlestop world tour of how the sausage, quite literally, gets made.<\/p>\n

While high-tech solutions like the lettuce farm, pictured above, and Plenty\u2019s<\/a> vertical farm in Compton, California, shown below, promise to deliver us from food apocalypse, van Lohuizen doesn\u2019t shy away from the low-tech dystopia of much of the world\u2019s food production as it is.<\/p>\n

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Plenty is a new vertical farm located in Compton, Los Angeles<\/p>\n

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He hopes that giving an insight into the size of the industry might make it easier to answer questions such as: how will it change in a rapidly warming climate, and which solutions are feasible? His Food for Thought<\/i> exhibition, featuring video, photography and sound<\/a>, is at the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam until 5 January 2025.<\/p>\n

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