The Business of Tech

From Leaf to lunch: the Canterbury startup rethinking protein

How could we develop a system that produced far more protein per hectare of land at a much lower environmental impact, and can we weave those things together into a business, which is what we have done.

Prof G Markets

Is the Oil Crisis About to Break Global Supply Chains? | Prof G Markets

Energy is upstream of everything and more importantly food the the fertilizer production coming out of that region. Um and it's planting season so it's a very bad timing for the world's agricultural supply chains.

TED

The Tiny Organisms Transforming Farming | Karsten Temme | TED

78 percent of the air around us is nitrogen gas. That's a form that plants can't use, and so they've partnered with microbes on a process called nitrogen fixation. The microbes can breathe in that nitrogen gas and turn it into a form that plants can metabolize. It's a symbiosis, a partnership that's worked for millions of years, right up until the point that humans started breeding crops to be more productive.