Archinect - News 2024-11-21T18:24:00-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/101782599/the-future-of-urban-farming-belongs-to-the-bugs The future of urban farming belongs to the bugs Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-06-13T13:21:00-04:00 >2014-06-13T13:22:57-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e6/e6b89a69bb6d7007dd3be66f2f654c47?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Some people might mentally retch that the United Nations, believing the world's population could hit&nbsp;9 billion by 2050, thinks we should prepare to eat bugs. Not the folks at Sweden's Belatchew Arkitekter, though: They want to fast-track the insect-munching. Thus they've whipped up plans to build "vermin farms" upon Stockholm's major intersections, so that by 2018 everybody in the city will be guaranteed plentiful rations of six-legged foodstuffs.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>