Does this high-tech lettuce have the answer to the global food crisis?

Illuminated in a ghostly purplish-red light, this floating lettuce is almost indistinguishable from lettuce grown outdoors, but requires one-tenth the land area. Their high-tech greenhouse in Maasbury, Netherlands, is one possible remedy for the global food industry, which is in crisis as it faces land scarcity due to climate change and conflict.

In his new book, food for thoughtphotographer Kadir van Roohuizen takes us on a whistle-blowing global journey into how sausages are made, quite literally, capturing the food industry’s struggles to address these challenges.

While high-tech solutions like the lettuce farm pictured above and Plenty’s vertical farm in Compton, California, pictured below, promise to save us from the food apocalypse, Van Lohuizen said , does not shy away from low-tech dystopias in many parts of the world. World food production remains as it is.

Gaining insight into the size of the industry will help answer questions such as “How will the industry change in a rapidly warming climate and what solutions are possible?” I hope that it may be possible. his food for thought The exhibition, featuring videos, photographs and audio, will be on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam until January 5, 2025.