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“#High-tech fixes for the food system could have unintended consequences<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Protein derived from organic waste to feed livestock could decrease demand for soybean meal. This could lead to less deforestation caused by soy farming. But decreased production of soybean, which is also used to produce oil for food products, could increase demand for palm oil. This could clear more forests for oil palm plantations.<\/p>\n


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This is just one example of how innovations to fix our food systems could backfire. In a new analysis<\/a> in The Lancet Planetary Health<\/i>, a team of scientists builds on recent research<\/a> that discusses how new technology<\/a> is needed to improve human health and the wellbeing of the planet.<\/p>\n

The authors say that the urgency to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (called SDGs; there are 17) must be tempered by the understanding that there are no quick fixes to ending poverty, eliminating hunger and conserving biological diversity.<\/p>\n

“The food system is in the mess it is right now because we introduce technologies and app<\/a>roaches to managing it without fully understanding all the indirect impacts the intervention can have,” said Andy Jarvis, a co-author and the associate director of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT.<\/p>\n

Symptoms of our ailing food system include unsustainable farming practices, habitat destruction, biodiversity loss and the waste or loss of about 30 percent of all food produced. Some 2 billion people are unhealthy because of their diets and some 8 million people died in 2019 due to dietary risk factors.<\/p>\n

In addition to tapping organic waste to produce microbial protein (called “circular feed”) the authors looked at trade-offs of three other food-system remedying technologies on the horizon:<\/p>\n