MIT Weekend Reads: Food Supply

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April 9, 2016 Weekend Reads: Food Supply

What we eat, how we grow it, and whether there will be enough of it—these are urgent questions in a world that will have 10 billion people by midcentury. This weekend we revisit MIT Technology Review stories on the promise and challenges of reinventing our food supply—not to mention making a more creative dinner.

Why We Will Need Genetically Modified Foods This 2013 feature made the case that GMOs will be important tools for adapting to climate change.

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2015: Supercharged Photosynthesis Researchers are making progress at getting crops to extract energy from sunlight far more efficiently so they need less water and fertilizer.

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016: Precise Gene Editing in Plants A look at how the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR could make genetic modification of crops easier, faster, and more acceptable to regulators.

The Next Startup Craze: Food 2.0 From 2014: Silicon Valley investors and startups are trying to improve our food. Do they bring anything to the table?

Fun with Food Denmark’s Noma and the Nordic Food Lab show how playful new cooking methods and weird ingredients will supplant the industrial techniques that dominate modernist cuisine.

The Problem with Fake Meat It might be possible to create a burger that helps the environment and improves your health. But will it taste good enough to win over the masses?

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