Eat Your View
Developer Robert Turner
is the author of numerous books and articles related to the food system..
SAVING THE RAIN FOREST.
IT REDUCES THE THREAT OF "FARM SPRAWL" AND DEFORESTATION, PARTICULARLY IN THE AMAZON AND AFRICA.
It allows us to grow more on existing, or even reduced farmland, and may even allow us to 'rewild' some regions of the world.
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
SAVING BIODIVERSITY
There are half the number of insects in North America than in the 1960's. There are one-third the number of birds flying over our heads than in the 1970's. And it's related, in some measure, to the overuse of chemical pesticides in agriculture. The United Nations has said that we have enough topsoil left worldwide for 60 years. That's 60 harvests. Industrial agriculture has impacted our soils and ecosystems, and endagered our ability to feed ourselves in the future. Climate change will further impact the future of food production. New agricultural technologies are a way to "Grow More with Less", less inputs, less labor, and less harm to ecosystems and the natural environment.
Without insects the rest of life, including humanity, “would mostly disappear from the land. And within a few months.” -Renowned Harvard entomologist E.O. Wilson
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Solving Global Challenges: Why AgTech Matters
“A good formula for investing is this one: find a problem and fix it.”
The Top 10 Problems Agriculture Must Solve
1. Economic Issues: farmers are struggling, rising food costs
2. Biodiversity: Birds, Bees and Butterflies… a “Bug Apocalypse”
3. Farmland Sprawl and Deforestation: Saving the Rain Forest
4. Climate Change: heat, drought and flood
5. Growing World Population
6. Soil Erosion, Soil Degradation: We Are Degrading the Land We Depend On
7. Food Waste: About 32% of all food produced gets wasted.
8. Farm Labor Shortages and Rising Labor Costs
9. Inefficient Use of Fertilizer, Chemicals and Other Inputs affecting Ecosystems
10. Insect and Plant Resistance to Pesticides; Antimicrobial Resistance in Farm Animals (includes the Loss of Antibiotics for Human use.)
Other Important Factors in the news: Food Safety and Traceability
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We’re not the Lab. We’re the Workshop
where companies come to fix the Big Problems.
INNOVATION → PROTOTYPE → TESTING → COMMERCIALIZATION → PRODUCTION → DISTRIBUTION → SCALE
our vision: sustainable and resilient food systems
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The current industrial agriculture system is controlled by large multinationals and is keeping farmers on the edge of solvency while it destroys our soils and ecosystems.
We need a better way.
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