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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #123 Engineering Plants: Intelligent Growth Solutions
Description: The world is on the brink of a climate related disaster. The solution requires a combination of engineering disciplines that do not come together very often. But they must, because the challenge is so enormous that the future of the human race quite literally depends on it.
Wheat, rice, sweetcorn, and soybean currently provide two thirds of human caloric intake worldwide. But the world is changing. In the face of rising global temperatures, crop yields are expected to fall… with each additional degree of warming, wheat production alone will fall by 6%, rice by 3.2%, soybean by 3.1% and sweetcorn by...