getty A few years ago, writing an article about agriculture in a business outlet would have appeared very out of place. Who would have been interested in a bunch of farmers plowing their fields with tractors? However, with the realities of the climate crisis becoming ever clearer, wars and natural disasters destroying livelihoods across the globe and threatening food security on top of the global finance sector being under pressure to clean up portfolios and promote sustainable futures, agriculture is now a hotbed for investment and innovation. It is also where clever tech and business brains should be heading. Without agricultural transformation, there will be no future. It’s that simple. We all need to eat and drink to survive, but the food system is in urgent need of transformation. To reel off a few stats, on average 70% of global freshwater is used for agriculture , the global food system accounts for nearly a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions and 25% of the world’s land has been degraded, all against a backdrop of the need to adapt to climate change and be prepared to feed 10 billion people. Agriculture is an industry with extremely complex and multifaceted challenges that […]