We’ve expanded the Foodsystems.tech website – your go-to place for agricultural innovations in plant nutrition, sustainable livestock, and next-gen crops – growing from 30 to 48 exciting solutions.
What’s new?
Eighteen new innovations have earned their place among the bold bets, game-changing new innovations chosen for their potential to decarbonize our food systems in the upcoming decades. Highlights include non-thermal plasma-based nitrogen fixation, which challenges the traditional and emission-heavy Haber-Bosch method of producing nitrogen-based fertilizers; electro-agriculture, offering a glimpse into how indoor agriculture might work in the dark; and commercial production of methane-eating microbes (MEM), munching through our methane emissions one MEM at a time (though there is still a long way to go).
What has changed?
We’ve been monitoring innovations that have been on our radar since the website originally launched. Green-hydrogen based ammonia is gaining strong momentum and heavy investment – even if most of it is still focused on meeting the energy sector’s needs (and we’re not salty about that). Methane-inhibiting feed additives are progressing steadily: Backed by AgriZeroNZ, several startups from down under are developing new solutions to prevent enteric methane production in animal rumen, meanwhile the first commercial-scale red seaweed cultivation facilities are emerging from Hawaii to Tasmania to produce bromoform-additives. Lastly, scientists are rapidly developing new technologies for extracting nitrogen from various sources. One especially exciting area of research is the optimizing of nitrogen reduction reactions from wastewater, a promising strategy for making green ammonia more sustainable and resource-efficient.
Check out the shiny new bold bets on the updated Foodsystems.tech – and give us a shout/get in touch if you think we’re missing a key advancement!
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