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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

And because they grow quickly with minimal resources—and without herbicides or pesticides—scientists point to their potential to help bolster nutritional security, hedge against disruptions in the food supply chain and even generate fresh produce on long-term space missions.

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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 In some markets, only a small percentage of the ingredients need to be replaced for an entire product to be disrupted. percent of its content. Before we reach this point, the U.S.

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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. So, while these solutions may make sense for some countries with more efficient technology, more developed markets, and low arable land, in other countries they would not.

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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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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

—Grey Moran A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World By Jennifer Grayson The fragility of our food system became more prominent than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, when supply chains struggled to stay tethered due to global trade disruptions. Obviously, they’re alive—but how alive, exactly?

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Revolutionizing Agriculture Through Artificial Intelligence

World Agri-Tech

So, as AI technologies advance, what impacts will they have on agri-food value chains? From advisory tools increasing supply chain efficiency to gene editing and predictive breeding speeding up R&D cycles, industry leaders are leveraging AI models to transform agriculture at scale into a more resilient and sustainable system.