Urban farming: technology and tradition (Gigabit)

Gigabit reported on the future of feeding people. The supply chains required to feed these swelling urban populations get longer and less sustainable. Food grown and produced to last for long periods of time contains more indigestible fats and sugars. “Diets are changing with rising incomes and urbanization. IFPRI’s report, Changing diets: Urbanization and the nutrition transition noted that this “‘nutrition transition’ is causing increases in overweight and obesity and diet-related diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.”