Future of Agriculture

In Unit 4 of our Food for Thought we briefly learned about decay and rebirth which talks about what our future may look like. The process for creating this project was simple. In my group we decided to make a path that split. The reason we wanted the road to split was because we don't know what will happen in the future so we wanted people to choose what they wanted. I took inspiration from a piece of artwork created by the Beehive Collectives. The poster I looked at was called,”True Cost of Coal.” The inspiration i took was by seeing how they traveled through the poster and told a story about past, present, and future. I think what was challenging for our group was to represent the future. We found it difficult because we did not take this unit we just briefly talked about it.I think that the future of food is still undecided. We have an opportunity to fix everything we have caused, but if we do not try to change then we will stay a course on the path we are on currently.

GS. Food For Thought. 2014

N.O.A and KIS. Future. 2014

N.O.A & KIS
Food Poster
18in by 24in
Big Paper, Color Pencils and pencil
May 2014

The unit that we picked was unit 4, Birth, where we had to predict how the future of agriculture will look like. The class didn't do the unit so the prediction came from what we know already. We had to predict if the world is going to get better or worse. What my partner and I decided to do was to create two paths, one organic and the other GMO. GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organisms. Most of our food today is GM and the way they do that is by injecting a certain gene that has a desirable trait. On the poster we created there will be two futures. How humans act in the present will determine which future we will have. We used 3 words that represent the future, and the words are organic, GM and polyculture. On one side we have organic and polyculture, and on the other side, there's GM and monoculture. Polyculture means the farm has a variety of plants. For the organic side we used as an example one of our FE partner’s farms, Marc. We tried to incorporate most of the things he had in his farm onto the paper, such as his polyculture plants and his free range animals. For the GM side we incorporated lots of things that we learned in our other class. For example, we included crops being covered in chemicals. We also incorporated GM crops along the road as a fence so people don't know what is going on. Something that both futures require is recycling. Recycling plays a big part in the future because if there is lots of garbage on the land then we don't have space to grow crops, and if there is garbage on the water then the water will be polluted. There won't be water for the crops to grow or for us to drink and survive.