Focal Point on Sustainable Food Supply in Japan
Japan’s high-tech agricultural sector is building a future where menus will increasingly include lab-grown meat and soy-based meat substitutes; where ‘smart pills’ will be used to monitor methane emissions in the cattle that are still farmed; and where microbial fertilizers will nourish both crops and the soil. Those developments are all part of an initiative launched in 2020 under the auspices of the Japanese Moonshot Research and Development Program’s Goal 5, which is to create ‘a sustainable global food supply’.
