A Revolution in the Global Food System
By 2050 the global Food & Agriculture System needs to increase yields by 70% whilst at same time be carbon negative, be hyper resource-efficient, be resilient to climate extremes and be in harmony with and inspired by Nature.
A new Global Food & Agriculture revolution requires innovations across four key themes
High yield hyper-resource efficient food production
Per plant farming as a service
Vertical farming
Hyper-productivity with at least 10-20 times improvement of input productivity of the Food & Agriculture System requires predictive per plant intelligence that can direct autonomous robots that can implement low cost Per Plant Farming at scale.
Net zero and nature-positive food system
Regenerative farming MRV
Risk transfer instruments
Transition to a net-zero and nature-positive food and agriculture system requires a science-based approach that measures the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices and rates the risk of soil carbon sequestration.
Food production that is resilient to extremes
Operational risk management
Risk transfer instruments
Resilience of the Agriculture System to increasing impact and frequency of weather extremes requires machine learning platforms that can measure risk at farm level and across the supply chain so that operational & financial risk management and insurance risk transfer platforms can scale worldwide.
Food production system that is nature-inspired
Precision microbiomes
Mycelial protein foods
The discovery of Next Generation biologicals requires a deep understanding of the causal relationships between the biological functions at play at both the individual plant, its pests and its microbiome’s bacteria and fungal diversity to enable breakthrough yields.
Global Food System Ventures
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Digital Twins for Global Food Supply Chains to deliver decarbonization from farm to fork
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Digital Twins for system-wide optimization of Crop Protection and Nutrition solutions from whole farm to individual plants
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Digital Twins to discover and design new Proteins by leveraging the vast Microbiome diversity of the Tropics
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Digital Twins for actionable risk management and risk transfer in natural resource industries