Climate change and the Earth’s burgeoning population are endangering the nutritional security of many populations, stated the World Economic Forum (WEF) in an article released on Jan. 17. The organization remains optimistic, however, offering dietary solutions like plant-based meat alternatives, insects, and “meat cultivated directly from animal cells.”
Global food systems accounted for 34 percent of greenhouse gas emission in 2015, according to the science journal Nature Food. Coupling this with the growing number of humans on the planet, which has surpassed eight billion, the WEF stressed that “we urgently need sustainable technologies and methods to improve our current food systems and use of land for agriculture.”
