Exhibitions 2025

Feed the Planet

Feed the Planet is the most comprehensive visual documentation ever made of our global food system—the result of ten years of fieldwork in over 40 countries and five oceans, including everything from high-tech greenhouses to barefoot fisherfolk.

Since the domestication of plants began some 11,000 years ago, humans have converted 40% of the earth’s landmass into farmland. In some oceans, over half of the fish biomass has disappeared since the 1950s. In addition, current agricultural systems create some 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions. With the human population expected to reach ten billion by 2050, combined with rising protein consumption in rapidly developing nations, it is estimated that we will have to almost double the global food supply over the next twenty-five years. How can we accomplish this without wiping out the remaining wild places and creatures?

Today, less than two percent of people in the industrialized world are involved in food production, and most city dwellers have little idea how or where it is produced. The Feed the Planet exhibit aims to enlighten and help viewers make more informed decisions about what they eat so that we can all have a sustainable future.