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Challenges and Innovations Driving the CEA Sector in GCC and MENA

Agritecture Blog

Credit: World Resources Institute According to Strategy and PWC , GCC countries import about 85% of their food and approximately 56% of vegetables, largely due to the highly limited arable land in the region, averaging 4.25%. What sets KRISPR apart is their commitment to incorporating innovative technologies in their operations.

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Agritecture’s Top 10 Blog Posts of 2022

Agritecture Blog

Discussions around labor development, technology innovation, and industry movement appear to be the most engaging. Is Cold Plasma the Next Big Technology Breakthrough in Indoor Ag? Cold plasma technology has established uses in traditional outdoor agriculture, but its uses have not been explored in indoor agriculture until recently.

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WILD SCIENCE FICTION

The Lunatic Farmer

The whole of the cow milk industry, for example, will start to collapse once modern food technologies have replaced the proteins in a bottle of milk—just 3.3 Environmental benefits will be profound with net greenhouse gas emissions from the sector falling by 45 percent by 2030. greenhouse gas emissions could be fully offset by 2035.

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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Customers now include nearby restaurants, and with business booming, he’s put a 10-by-20-foot greenhouse in the backyard and hopes to upgrade to a larger vertical farming structure in the near future. With arable land at a premium— urban sprawl is a growing threat to the farming region—“I’m lucky to have a big yard,” says Mateo.

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Exemplary Approaches to Hybridizing Agriculture

Agritecture Blog

Various technologies and methodologies have begun to crop up over the last decade, presenting themselves as “silver bullets” to this food system problem. A greenhouse that has environmental controls to deliver fresh produce year-round might cost USD $40 or more per square foot and require significant energy use.

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Early-Stage Agrifood Investment in Africa is Taking Off. What Could This Mean for CEA?

Agritecture Blog

A recent report by McKinsey revealed that while Africa has large amounts of untapped agricultural land that could be used to increase production, much of this land is in unreachable areas. The lack of infrastructure, conflict zones, forest cover, and large conservation areas has made lots of arable lands inaccessible.

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NOAA Is Rolling Out a Plan to Radically Expand Offshore Aquaculture. Not Everyone Is Onboard.

Civil Eats

On the list were grants for projects that improve technology for hatcheries, for example, or those that improve consumer acceptance of farmed fish and are funded by NOAA’s Sea Grants program. Some producers have switched to land-based protein sources, such as soymeal and soy oil. percent of food worldwide but take up 9.9