Bathed in a ghostly purple-red mild, these floating lettuces are barely distinguishable from these grown open air, however require one-tenth as a lot land. The high-tech greenhouse the place they dwell, in Maasbree within the Netherlands, is one doable treatment for a worldwide meals trade in disaster, going through a scarcity of land attributable to local weather change and battle.
In his new ebook, Meals for Thought, photographer Kadir van Lohuizen captures the meals trade’s wrestle with these challenges, taking a whistlestop world tour of how the sausage, fairly actually, will get made.
Whereas high-tech options just like the lettuce farm, pictured above, and Loads’s vertical farm in Compton, California, proven under, promise to ship us from meals apocalypse, van Lohuizen doesn’t shrink back from the low-tech dystopia of a lot of the world’s meals manufacturing as it’s.
Loads is a brand new vertical farm situated in Compton, Los Angeles
Kadir van Lohuizen/NOOR
He hopes that giving an perception into the scale of the trade may make it simpler to reply questions resembling: how will it change in a quickly warming local weather, and which options are possible? His Meals for Thought exhibition, that includes video, images and sound, is on the Nationwide Maritime Museum in Amsterdam till 5 January 2025.
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