agriculture

If a rogue AI took down the electricity grid, industrial agriculture would fail in a predictable order: fuel, livestock, refrigeration, irrigation, grain drying, fertiliser and processing. Joshua Pearce of Western University sets out eight ways to feed ourselves anyway. We check each against the research behind it, from Haber-Bosch and feed-grain figures to modelled yield losses, single-cell protein and backyard soybeans, and look at what governments, farms and households can do now.