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The growth of the human population has always been centered on a civilization\u2019s ability to cultivate crops. Regardless of the Malthusian or the Cornucopian perspective, the trend between the agricultural revolution and the growth of the human population directly parallels technological growth. In terms of sustainable systems most of the world is still in developmental stages today, giving us high hopes for the future. Michael Carolan in his book The Real Cost of Cheap Food <\/em>puts forth a stern position of how the global food system operates. The origin of the \u201ccheap foods\u201d concept according to Carolan emerged out of a wave known as the Agricultural Revolution. The advent of globalization has set in motion specific economic, social, cultural and political interests geared towards industrializing agriculture. This dynamic can be measured in understandable terms, by breaking down systems into their individual components. The term commodity chain deals with the economic trail in terms of their production and circulation.\u00a0 It is evident that water is vital to crop production, and companies looking to the future will be trying to spread irrigation systems to more remote undeveloped areas. Irrigation makes it easier to secure crop production and the rationality behind it is fundamental to development. Economic evolution is critical to achieving a developed world. Earth\u2019s water is spread out all over the planet; the ability to pump water from deep surfaces can solve agricultural issues. The general trend will be to maximize the capability of food markets across the globe by increasing efficiency on all levels. This made me think about a company that created a product known as \u201cFarmBot\u201d; a robot system that grows crops for you and that can be solar-powered. It is amazing to think of what is possible with agricultural technology; the future could potentially solve a lot of the world\u2019s hunger issues. The challenge to achieving this new level of technological integration on a global scale is in making it accessible to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The growth of the human population has always been centered on a civilization\u2019s ability to cultivate crops. Regardless of the Malthusian or the Cornucopian perspective, the trend between the agricultural revolution and the growth of the human population directly parallels technological growth. In terms of sustainable systems most of the world is still in developmental stages today, giving us high… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,22,23,11,14,16,26,15],"tags":[104,100,80,106,103,105,101,54,102,107],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumption","category-economics","category-farming","category-food-movements","category-hunger","category-soil","category-systems-thinking","category-trade","category-water","tag-environment","tag-farmbot","tag-farming","tag-food-movements","tag-future","tag-hunger","tag-sustainble","tag-system","tag-theory","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}