{"id":33941,"date":"2017-01-29T22:44:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T06:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/mits-food-computers-set-the-stage-for-open-source-agriculture"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:52:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:52:54","slug":"mits-food-computers-set-the-stage-for-open-source-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/mits-food-computers-set-the-stage-for-open-source-agriculture","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s Food Computers Set the Stage for Open Source Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LEx6K4P4GJc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of us probably don\u2019t think too much about the foodstuffs we buy in the supermarket. But behind the scenes, today\u2019s food production system relies on a centralized, industrial-scale supply chain that\u2019s still dependent upon soil-based agriculture for the majority of our food crops.<\/p>\n<p>In many instances, that means that food has to travel long distances from farm to table, meaning that food has lost much of its freshness and nutritional value by the time it reaches your table. There\u2019s also a growing awareness that this model isn\u2019t sustainable: the pressures of increasing urbanization and loss of arable land, rising populations and the increased frequency of extreme weather events like droughts and floods \u2014 brought on by climate change \u2014 means that slowly but surely, we are going to have to change the way we grow our food.<\/p>\n<p>There are some indications of this shift: the appearance of urban rooftop farms, an explosion of interest in automated hydroponic systems. The problem with all these systems is that their platforms are proprietary, and the lack of a common platform between them means these won\u2019t necessarily scale up.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewstack.io\/mits-food-computers-sets-stage-open-source-agriculture\/\">http:\/\/thenewstack.io\/mits-food-computers-sets-stage-open-source-agriculture\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us probably don\u2019t think too much about the foodstuffs we buy in the supermarket. But behind the scenes, today\u2019s food production system relies on a centralized, industrial-scale supply chain that\u2019s still dependent upon soil-based agriculture for the majority of our food crops. In many instances, that means that food has to travel long [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33941","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=33941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58955,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33941\/revisions\/58955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}