These pressures include:
🌽 Food insecurity: dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year according to the United Nations.
📈 Population growth and climate change could cause over 1 billion to migrate to urban areas by 2050.
💧 Rising global temperatures are causing an increase in droughts, floods, and the availability of water.
🐞 The loss of biodiversity crisis has reached a point where the world has seen a 68% drop in insect species since 1970.
🌱 Globally, over 50% of agricultural land is already degraded.
☢️ Fertilizer prices have surged in recent years due to geopolitical factors.
Thankfully, it’s not all bad news, and we here at VF and the rest of the vertical farming sector are dedicated to working in tandem with broadacre farming to build more resilient food systems.
Want to find out more about our work? Email info@verticalfuture.co.uk!
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