Vertical farming: Plenty receives $200 million investment from tech giants - TomoNews SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco startup Plenty specialized in vertical farming has secured $200 million from investors including Japanese media corporation SoftBank, the parent company of Google, Alphabet [...]
Key stats: 815 million: the number of people on the planet who suffer from hunger, 1 in 3 from malnourishment 70%: the amount global food production must increase to meet population growth demands by 2050 2/3: the fraction of [...]
The Future Of Food & Climate Change: Sustainability & Technology To The Rescue As the world’s population rises and the climate worsens, the future of food security is at risk — but can tech save the day? Food security has [...]
<br/> Local Roots Family At Local Roots, we design, manufacture and operate the world’s most productive indoor farming solutions. We believe the key to a more sustainable future requires eliminating supply-chain risks and undoing the commoditization of the food industry. [...]
Local Roots cofounder and CEO Eric Ellestad in one of the company's indoor farms.Leanna Garfield By 2050, the world will need to feed 9.7 billion people— 2.4 billion more than today. A growing movement of people believes that indoor farming could be a solution [...]
