Innovating Agriculture to Feed the World
Our global food industry has sustained more people with increased efficiency and at a lower cost than any other period in human history. The problem is that agriculture continues to have an astounding and detrimental influence on global health and the environment.
Polluted waterways caused by fertilizer runoff affect the majority of the planet, harmful growth hormones are traced in the meat we eat, malnourishment persists across developing nations, a profound obesity epidemic exists in first world economies and several million pounds of food is unnecessarily wasted every year. Now the leading cause of deforestation, one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions and a major contributor to biodiversity’s 6th extinction, global agriculture must evolve to ensure our own survival.…