A New Agricultural Revolution is required.
By 2050, global agriculture must increase food production by 70% while becoming regenerative, radically resource-efficient, resilient to climate extremes, and fully aligned with— and inspired by—Nature.
A new agricultural revolution demands deeptech innovations across four key levers
Resilience to Climate Extremes
Strengthening the resilience of agriculture to increasingly frequent and severe climate events calls for farm-level machine learning platforms that predict climate extremes across the supply chain, weeks and months in advance—enabling the global scale-up of low-cost operational risk management tools and parametric insurance.
Transition to Biologicals
The discovery of next-generation biologicals (such as novel proteins) requires a deep understanding of the causal relationships between plant biology, pests, and the diverse bacterial and fungal ecosystems of the microbiome—unlocking breakthroughs in yield and plant health.
Regenerative Agriculture
The transition to a regenerative agriculture system depends on a science-based platform to measure, monitor, and verify the adoption of regenerative practices—along with risk-based assessments of soil carbon sequestration potential.
Hyper-Productive Agriculture
Achieving 20-fold improvements in input productivity will require predictive intelligence systems that guide swarms of autonomous robots capable of implementing per-plant application of crop protection and nutrition at scale.
Digital twins to minimize the use of agricultural inputs and reduce productivity losses—from individual plants to entire farms.
Digital twins to discover and design novel proteins by harnessing the vast microbiome diversity of the Tropics.
