Our Food (and Beverages)

Overview: Microbes play major and disparate roles in food production, processing, upgrading, deterioration and conservation, and in global food security. And, of course, microbes themselves serve as sources of food, sources that will assume ever-increasing importance in the search for solutions to current crises of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, the rising human population and its increasing need for food, the soil crisis and limited land surface for agriculture. Let’s learn about our food!