Vertical Farming
Amongst the foremost challenges of our time is feeding a growing global population with a shrinking amount of airable land. Today in developing, countries food insecurity is still a massive problem. Even in highly sophisticated economies like the U.S. and Europe, just 100 years ago scholars feared population growth would outpace food production so quickly as to cause mass starvation. We know now that those claims were not realized, but it would’ve been difficult then to predict the explosion in technology we saw over the century. A single farm worker today (with the help of modern equipment) produces hundreds of times more than he did or could in 1920. Automated farming can only take you so far, though. Even if we use the most efficient growing methods and logistics; the current model demands more and more land. This directly conflicts with growing urbanization, as well as causing problems in other areas like chemical pollution and wasteful watering practices.
