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world that hungers for packaging  Since the dawn of humankind,
food has been the most basic need. Print Reprint FILED IN:
 Sustainability  > Strategy  But only with the arrival of the
Industrial Revolution during the 19th century did agriculture
become organized enough to permit people to leave behind the
hunt-and-harvest survival mode and begin an era of expansion. As
people became less tethered to the land and began clustering in
towns and cities, a new discipline of food preservation and
protection was required so that the bounty of the land could
still reach them. That’s why the transition from rural to urban
societies was also a time that saw the modernization of
agriculture and the growth of a distribution infrastructure to
feed the newly industrialized West. Central to these
developments was the emergence of packaging capable of
protecting food as it made its way from field to fork.  Although
Western societies have evolved in this manner, oth