10.5061/DRYAD.6708R
Hammond, Sean T.
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Brown, James H.
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Burger, Joseph R.
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Flanagan, Tatiana P.
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Fristoe, Trevor S.
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Mercado-Silva, Norman
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Nekola, Jeffrey C.
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Okie, Jordan G.
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Data from: Food spoilage, storage, and transport: implications for a
sustainable future
Dryad
dataset
2015
growth rates
food spoilage
Food storage technologies
Transportation technologies
Homo Sapiens
food spoilage
sustainability
shelf life
Microbes
food security
technological innovation
human macroecology
Malthusian–Darwinian dynamic
Holocene
2015-12-10T18:10:14Z
2015-12-10T18:10:14Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biv081
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Human societies have always faced temporal and spatial fluctuations in
food availability. The length of time that food remains edible and
nutritious depends on temperature, moisture, and other factors that affect
the growth rates of organisms that cause spoilage. Some storage
techniques, such as drying, salting, and smoking, date back to ancient
hunter–gatherer and early agricultural societies and use relatively low
energy inputs. Newer technologies developed since the industrial
revolution, such as canning and compressed-gas refrigeration, require much
greater energy inputs. Coincident with the development of storage
technologies, the transportation of food helped to overcome spatial and
temporal fluctuations in productivity, culminating in today's global
transport system, which delivers fresh and preserved foods worldwide.
Because most contemporary humans rely on energy-intensive technologies for
storing and transporting food, there are formidable challenges for feeding
a growing and increasingly urbanized global population as finite supplies
of fossil fuels rapidly deplete.
Transportation technologies over human historyDate of first appearance,
average speed, capacity, and energy source for various air, land, and
water transport vessels used for food and other transportation over human
historySupplemental_3.docxFood storage technologiesFood storage
technologies with historical dates of appearance, energy requirements, and
shelf life of various food items with and without storage
technologySupplemental2_revised.docxGrowth rates of food spoiling
microbesThe temperature-dependent growth rates of various microbes causing
food spoilageSupplemental_1.xlsx
Global