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 reside, in Maasbree within the Netherlands, is one attainable treatment for a world meals business in disaster, going through a scarcity of land as a consequence of local weather change and battle.
In his new guide, Meals for Thought, photographer Kadir van Lohuizen captures the meals business’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 A lot’s vertical farm in Compton, California, proven beneath, 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.
A lot is a brand new vertical farm positioned in Compton, Los Angeles
Kadir van Lohuizen/NOOR
He hopes that giving an perception into the scale of the business would possibly make it simpler to reply questions reminiscent of: 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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