{"id":29944,"date":"2016-09-07T19:17:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T02:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/surprisingly-plant-microbes-may-be-an-answer-to-our-growing-food-needs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:17:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:17:40","slug":"surprisingly-plant-microbes-may-be-an-answer-to-our-growing-food-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/surprisingly-plant-microbes-may-be-an-answer-to-our-growing-food-needs","title":{"rendered":"Surprisingly, Plant Microbes May Be An Answer To Our Growing Food Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surprisingly-plant-microbes-may-be-an-answer-to-our-growing-food-needs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Sveta McShane: Organizations as diverse as the United Nations and Monsanto are in agreement that we need to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2009\/gaef3242.doc.htm\" target=\"_blank\">double our food production globally by 2050<\/a> to feed the world\u2019s population\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surprisingly-plant-microbes-may-be-an-answer-to-our-growing-food-needs.jpg\" alt=\"Awaken\" width=\"520\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surprisingly-plant-microbes-may-be-an-answer-to-our-growing-food-needs.jpg 520w, http:\/\/www.awaken.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Untitled-11-300x162.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.awaken.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Untitled-11-200x108.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px)  100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But our current agricultural process is one of the biggest contributors to global warming. It emits more greenhouses gases than all the world\u2019s cars combined and is a major consumer and polluter of our precious water resources.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awaken.com\/2016\/09\/surprisingly-plant-microbes-may-be-an-answer-to-our-growing-food-needs\/\">http:\/\/www.awaken.com\/2016\/09\/surprisingly-plant-microbes-ma...ood-needs\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sveta McShane: Organizations as diverse as the United Nations and Monsanto are in agreement that we need to double our food production globally by 2050 to feed the world\u2019s population\u2026 But our current agricultural process is one of the biggest contributors to global warming. It emits more greenhouses gases than all the world\u2019s cars [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1506,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-food","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66314,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29944\/revisions\/66314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}