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WHAT IF WE COULD GROW ALL OF THE WORLDS CROPS INDOORS?
This is one of the exciting SFI projects being exhibited at Science Week next week as part of the What If? Campaign. Professor Marcel Jansen, Biological Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC and Dr Alan Morrison, School of Engineering, UCC are tackling this problem by exploring ways to make the current food production processes more sustainable as well as increasing the nutritional value of the crops.
Agriculture is the single largest contributor to Ireland’s overall greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for over 30% of the total. Not only that, but agriculture already accounts for over 66% of land use nationally. With the world’s population estimated to increase by over a third by 2050, we are very quickly looking at 2 billion extra mouths to feed. Professor Marcel Jansen and Doctor Alan Morrison from UCC are tackling this problem by exploring ways to make the current food production processes more sustainable as well as increasing the nutritional value of the crops.
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