At the core of our philosophy is Design Thinking.

Source: Interaction Design Foundation

The solution must serve a purpose. What are the problems to be addressed? Understanding and observation are required to truly understand and bring to clarity the issue and challenges to be addressed.

In the coming decades, the world will face these these major challenges to provide enough food on the table:

1. The world population is expected to continue to grow and peak around 10 billion.

2. The effects of climate change are expected to have significant negative impact on food production.

3. Overfishing

“An estimated 821 million people are currently undernourished, 151 million children under five are stunted, 613 million women and girls aged 15 to 49 suffer from iron deficiency, and 2 billion adults are overweight or obese.”

IPCC

“Water required for food production may become more scarce due to increased crop water use and drought. Competition for land may increase as certain areas become climatically unsuitable for production. In addition, extreme weather events, associated with climate change may cause sudden reductions in agricultural productivity, leading to rapid price increases.”

“Projected changes in climate are not limited to increases in temperature and heat waves; large changes in rainfall patterns are also expected to occur. While some regions are likely to suffer from more droughts in the future, other regions are expected to face the opposing issues of torrential rains and increased flooding.”

The Future of Farming: Exploring Climate Smart Agriculture

“The number of overfished stocks globally has tripled in half a century and today fully one-third of the world’s assessed fisheries are currently pushed beyond their biological limits. Overfishing is closely tied to bycatch—the capture of unwanted sea life while fishing for a different species. This, too, is a serious marine threat that causes the needless loss of billions of fish, along with hundreds of thousands of sea turtles and cetaceans.”

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The challenge in the next decades will be to keep up agricultural productivity. Solutions are emerging with the use of technology, specifically AI and robotics.

We will be an active participant in the development of technology solutions to mitigate these challenges.

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