Crops are responsible for the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as all road transportation, 30% of global water withdrawals, land degradation, habitat loss, species extinction, deforestation & eutrophication, with projected yield declines due to climate volatility, rising input costs & labour shortages.

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Despite billions spent each year on mitigation, there is no clear path for traditional agriculture to meet future global demand reliably or affordably. Outdoor farming is exposed, variable & fundamentally constrained as an open system where water, emissions, pests & conditions cannot be fully controlled.

 

​Controlled indoor environments decouple food production from climate, weather and geography, with almost everything you put in going into the crop rather than the atmosphere, land or waterways. Following the same factory approach we've taken for the production of energy, transportation & goods. Food production today, in many ways, lags behind.

 

Until now, indoor farms have been too expensive to build & operate at meaningful scale. AGRA was founded to change that.