Entrepreneurs around the world are driving a new agricultural revolution to address the world’s dual food security and environmental challenges through sustainable agriculture technology, or “AgTech”. We need many more of them.
As I celebrate the July 4th week at a family home nestled in a valley surrounded by farmland, I am realizing how little attention I have dedicated on this blog to agriculture. Global demographics indicate that food demand is expected to increase 70 percent by 2050, with a parallel increase of as much as 100 percent in food prices. Environmental challenges and urban trends all indicate that farmland is not the key part of the equation to tweak. Clearly, the global agriculture system is under pressure. Enter AgTech. It is a fast-growing industry, but it needs more entrepreneurial innovators to step in.
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