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What is Autotrophicy

Handbook of Research on Globalized Agricultural Trade and New Challenges for Food Security
A production of organic compounds from non-organic matter.
Published in Chapter:
Real Need of the World in Food: A Future of Agricultural Production
Valentin Sapunov (Saint Petersburg State Agrarian University, Russia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1042-1.ch001
Abstract
Mankind has minimal areas of agricultural land that produces more food than required to feed the world's population. When allocating forces and assets within the framework of the global policy of investing in agriculture, it can be safely reduced. What is food policy in the 21st century? First of all, it is advisable to increase investments in the study of food opportunities, the development of technology for the collection and processing of aborigine animals and plants in particular territories with a further increase in investments in the methods of biological technology. It is advisable to increase the investments in industrial methods for obtaining food products from animals, plants, microorganisms, in the future – in the course of chemical industrial synthesis. Vernadsky predicted that in the future, mankind will switch to autotrophic nutrition, i.e. artificial synthesis of food from inorganic materials. Biotechnology will gradually reduce the volume of traditional agricultural production.
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