Scenarios about 'food systems'
Food systems encompass the interconnected activities involved in producing, processing, distributing, consuming, and disposing of food. These complex networks have evolved throughout history from local subsistence agriculture to today's globalized supply chains, reflecting changing technologies, trade patterns, and cultural practices. Understanding historical food systems provides crucial context for alternate history scenarios where different agricultural technologies, trade routes, or cultural food practices might dramatically reshape societies and power dynamics.
What If Asian Rice Cultivation Adopted Different Practices?
Exploring the alternate timeline where East Asian civilizations developed dry farming rice techniques rather than wet paddy agriculture, potentially reshaping the agricultural, social, and environmental development of Asia and beyond.
What If Vertical Farming Dominated Agriculture?
Exploring how global food systems, urban development, environmental conditions, and social structures might have evolved if vertical farming had become the primary agricultural method worldwide.