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Big Picture / Technology / Agriculture & Food Production

Millions of networked agricultural machines across the world that have imbedded systems and artificial intelligence software, are indeed…..ROBOTS!

History of agriculture
Farm management

• sustainability practices: Leading Harvest

Crop farming
Livestock farming
Technology of hunting, fishing, whaling

Food

• Food processing
• Food preservation
• Techniques for controlling the quality of food
• Food sources and new product development

Further reading

• activism and change:
  • Uncharted
  • Broken Bread
  • World Central Kitchen
• data analytics:
  • Gro Intelligence
  • Ag Analytics
• delivery: Walmart InHome
• diet: Flexitarian
• eat healthy: What to Eat When Roizen
• pest control: insectaries
• plant-based meats:
  • Let’s Launch a Moonshot for Meatless Meat
  • Beyond Meat
  • Impossible Foods
• roadmap: Feeding the Future Heintzman
• snacks: Graze
• soil: World Soil Day
• the farmer: So God Made a Farmer Harvey
• vertical farming: AeroFarms

Big Questions

Is the global ecological impact of meat production sustainable?

Persuasion and the Nudge

You don’t easily change a person’s perspective, understanding, and long-held opinion of things. It is built up moment-by-moment, year-by-year, decade-by-decade over a lifetime. Rather than try to completely change a person’s opinion in one sitting, find a way for two views to coexist and cooperate by nudging each towards the other. Reference Paul McCartney’s idea about nudging people to eat less meat by instituting Meatless Monday.

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Can Planet Earth feed 10 billion people by 2050?

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You Protect What You Love