Title
The Engineered Eco-system, a toolkit for sustainability

CoPED ID
5c93f551-1e00-4e17-836b-5b16ec3aae70

Status
Closed


Value
£1,540,550

Start Date
Nov. 1, 2013

End Date
April 30, 2015

Description

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Rapidly increasing populations, environmental pressures and rising energy demand are converging to create the precursors to a catastrophe. Global food production needs to increase by 70 percent by 2050 in order to feed an additional 2.3 billion people (OECD – FAO Agricultural Outlook 2011-2020), and all these new individuals will be requiring their share of the world’s resources.

Most current production and consumption methods, particularly in the developed world, are based on the assumption of infinite resource availability, and are consequently wasteful and environmentally unsustainable.

There is no single solution to this approaching crisis, however we believe that a combination of existing and emerging technologies can be devised that will provide a toolkit for sustainability that can be combined, modified and scaled to suit local challenges and needs; providing Energy Generation, Food Production, Nutrient Retention and Water Conservation anywhere in the World.

Subjects by relevance
  1. Food production
  2. Agriculture
  3. Sustainable development
  4. Environmental effects
  5. Natural resources
  6. Developing countries
  7. Catastrophes
  8. Emergency food
  9. Energy
  10. Energy consumption (energy technology)

Extracted key phrases
  1. Engineered eco
  2. Global food production
  3. Infinite resource availability
  4. Sustainability
  5. Toolkit
  6. FAO Agricultural Outlook
  7. Environmental pressure
  8. Current production
  9. Energy demand
  10. System
  11. World
  12. New individual
  13. Consumption method
  14. Need
  15. Nutrient Retention

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