Agrifood Brief: Schrödinger’s food security

 

In his famous thought experiment, Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger theorised that if you placed a cat in an unobserved, closed box with something that has the potential to kill it – say, a radioactive substance – it can be considered simultaneously both dead and alive.

The experiment is used as a way to reference something as a paradoxical situation where two opposing possibilities occur simultaneously.

Which is exactly the situation we currently find in the EU agri-food sector, where it seems there is simultaneously both too much and too little food. (...)