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		<title>Just for fun, a bit of science fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the issues that I regularly raise during my presentations is the one of the farmers of the future. As about everywhere in the world, the average age of farmers is increasing, this brings the question of who will take over and what effect it will have on the future of agriculture and future [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=2393&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future Harvests now also available as an ebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on a number of requests, and as ebooks are increasingly becoming the preferred choice for many readers, I listened to the market. From this day, Future Harvests &#8211; The Next Agricultural Revolution is available as an ebook. You can find it on amazon.com, as a Kindle edition. Both the paperback book as the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=2253&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding nine billion is an exercise in leadership</title>
		<link>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2011/01/24/feeding-nine-billion-is-an-exercise-in-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous article, “Hunger is about more than just food production”, I showed how much more potential we have to feed the world than we commonly think. However, having the potential to do so does not mean that we will do it. Human nature has the habit of fluctuating between its best and its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=1873&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Follow the water!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without water, there is no agriculture, there is no food, and there is no life. It is obvious, and yet the water question is too often neglected. The quantity and the quality of water available are absolutely crucial for the future production of food. It will influence where and what type of food we can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=1517&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Farming a better future by learning the lessons of the previous Green Revolution</title>
		<link>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2010/09/27/farming-a-better-future-by-learning-the-lessons-of-the-previous-green-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the facts, the Green Revolution of the 1960s has been criticized for having caused negative consequences on farmland. It is true that some intensive agricultural practices have brought serious damage to soils and water reserves, but it is also true that the actions taken have increase food production and they averted the risk of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=1363&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future Harvests – A preview of the book</title>
		<link>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2010/07/24/future-harvests-book-preview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My book, Future Harvests, is expected to be published before the end of August. Here is a preview to give you a flavor of the content. For a full view, please click on the thumbnails.                     Here is a sample containing the table of contents and the preface [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=1045&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future Harvests – The book is coming soon!</title>
		<link>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2010/04/09/future-harvests-%e2%80%93-the-book-is-coming-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The editing of my book &#8220;Future Harvests &#8211; The next agricultural revolution&#8221; is about completed. All that is left to do is developing the cover and start the publishing. I have already received orders, even before the book is out. That is quite a good sign. And a great surprise for me. If you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=954&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting closer to lab meat</title>
		<link>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/12/03/getting-closer-to-lab-meat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dutch researchers have extracted cells from a live pig and put them in a broth derived from the blood of animal fetuses. After the cell have multiplied, the researchers have obtained a mass of muscle tissue. The texture is obviously not what they are looking for, but they are optimistic about the possibilities.  They have not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=811&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The hen house of the future</title>
		<link>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/12/02/the-hen-house-of-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Agriculture from Israel organized an architectural competition for the design of a new generation of layer hen houses for the North of the country. It is interesting to see how much architecture is involved in the design of future systems, as it is the case of vertical farming that I mentioned in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=807&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nanotechnology: the next controversial subject?</title>
		<link>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/11/27/nanotechnology-the-next-controversial-subject/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nanotechnology is the technology of building structures from atoms, molecules or molecular clusters to make materials and devices that have new properties. It is a new field in agriculture and food production, but it offers a wide variety of applications that can help overcome a number of problems we are facing today. They can help [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=799&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coca-Cola and the bottle of the future</title>
		<link>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/11/25/coca-cola-and-the-bottle-of-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/11/25/coca-cola-and-the-bottle-of-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beverages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bio-plastic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coca-Cola will start selling its beverages in a special bottle, called the PlantBottle, which is made from PET plastic and from plant-based materials by the end of 2010. A first launch will take place in Western Canada during the Olympic Games held in Vancouver, BC. In the US and Canada, the bottles will include 30% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=796&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The vertical farm</title>
		<link>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/10/26/the-vertical-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a think-out-of-the-box article about the &#8220;vertical farm&#8221;. It is an interesting vision of a replacement of agricultural land, by indoor robot-tended hydroponic agriculture. They also envision the possibility of raising farm animals and developing aquaculture in the water used to grow the plants; and the fish waste would be used as fertilizer. All of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=739&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humans and robots will work closely together in meat and poultry plants</title>
		<link>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/09/28/humans-and-robots-will-work-closely-together-in-meat-and-poultry-plants/</link>
		<comments>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/09/28/humans-and-robots-will-work-closely-together-in-meat-and-poultry-plants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poultry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processing plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The level of automation in processing plants have increased continuously over the years and the statement made above makes some sense. This article from MeatPoultry.com reports of an interview with Jeff Burnstein, president of the Robotics Industries Association. Although there is no specific details of things, if any, that may come, other examples in other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=645&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How much can the rule of 80-20 tell us about the future?</title>
		<link>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/09/03/how-much-can-the-rule-of-80-20-tell-us-about-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/09/03/how-much-can-the-rule-of-80-20-tell-us-about-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Efficiency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all have heard about this rule across all industries, including agriculture and food. Eighty percent of the food would be produced on 20% of the farms and vice-versa. If it still applies in the future, it can indicate us how our food production and supplies will look like in the future. Of course, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=510&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Producing more, yet in a sustainable way. That is the challenge!</media:title>
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		<title>USDA experiments with grain harvesting device</title>
		<link>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/08/27/usda-experiments-with-grain-harvesting-device/</link>
		<comments>http://hfgfoodfuturist.com/2009/08/27/usda-experiments-with-grain-harvesting-device/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christophe Pelletier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grains]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a nice illustration of what I meant with my article &#8220;Innovation and tradition shape the future&#8220;. This is an article from WorldGrain.com describing the result of a test on a new harvesting system for grain carried out by the USDA. They tested the stripper header on millet and wheat. The idea of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hfgfoodfuturist.com&amp;blog=7821215&amp;post=453&amp;subd=futurefood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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