Agritech will improve human health and global food security

All around the world, we depend on fragile food chains to put food on our tables.

Artificially-ripened fruit and vegetables with more air miles than most people have accumulated this year are a common hallmark of supermarkets, with many nations increasingly reliant on climate-hungry imported produce for a steady supply of staple foods.

But these unsustainable and easily-disrupted supply chains, as evidenced by COVID-19, have put us at risk of food scarcity. We are caught in a system of negative reinforcement, whereby the very sources and processes we depend on for food pose a risk of causing harm to our future food supply.

Here in the Emirates we want to transform food production, while simultaneously producing local crops that offer a more reliable, fresher, more traceable and often more nutritious food source than bulk freighted produce.

Reduce reliance on complex supply chains

By utilising improvements in agricultural technology (agritech), we have ambitions to reduce our reliance on complex supply chains and produce viable, fresher and tastier produce that can be delivered straight to our local supermarkets, without the need for the use of preservative chemicals, artificial ripening aids and bulk freight.

It is now more apparent than ever with the launch of the UK’s National Food Strategy Part 2, that the UK – like the Emirates and many other nations – requires a seismic shift in its food culture, not only to provide adequate nutrition, but to help build sustainable and secure food systems to feed future generations. agritech, combined with global knowledge sharing across nations, will be transformative in providing the solution to this crisis.

Source: foodmanufacture.co.uk

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