Practice
Programmable Biology
Synthetic biology across agriculture, medicine, and materials.
Engineering living systems for food, medicine, and materials — and the biosecurity and equity questions they raise.
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Tag
agriculture
4 articles tagged “agriculture”.
Future Concept
Water Abundance
Desalination, atmospheric harvesting, and closed-loop agriculture.
Cheap electricity turns desalination, atmospheric generation, and closed-loop agriculture into abundant water supply, reframing scarcity as a distribution problem.
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Innovator
Norman Borlaug
Quiet architect of the Green Revolution, credited with saving on the order of a billion lives.
Agronomist whose semi-dwarf wheat breeding averted forecast famines and laid the caloric floor of the Age of Abundance.
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Innovator
George Washington Carver
Agricultural regenerator who served the farmers the research system had written off.
Agricultural scientist whose regenerative rotation and extension work served the farmers the mainstream research system ignored.
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