agriculture

After Millennia Of Agricultural Expansion, The World May Have Passed 'Peak Agricultural Land'

Posted in Science on 26th Aug, 2022
by Alex Muller

Several sources suggest that global agricultural land use has fallen in recent decades.

Walmart Is Investing Heavily Into Vertical Farming

Posted in Business, Science on 29th Jan, 2022
by Alex Muller

The company says this system enables them to use just one percent of the land required by traditional farming while improving yields 150-350 times per acre.

Alphabet's New Moonshot Is To Transform How We Grow Food

Posted in Business, Science on 22nd Oct, 2020
by Alex Muller

With the global population growing while climate change begins to impact our ability to produce food, many are calling for a 21st-century Green Revolution.

World Food Supply is Increasing Faster Than Population Growth

Posted in Business, Medicine on 27th Jan, 2020
by Alex Muller

The world population is growing at about 1.1% each year and world food production is increasing at a faster rate.

Speed Breeding Lets Us Develop Six Generations of Crops Instead of Two Each Year

Posted in Business, Science on 18th Jun, 2019
by Alex Muller

This will make it easier to increase crop yields to feed more people. Although we already have test fields with two to three times the yield of crops. So getting another double would mean we could feed more than 20 billion people.