Our food systems are unsustainable. Today, agriculture accounts for 40 per cent of land use globally, and a whopping 70 per cent of freshwater consumption. It is also responsible for nearly a third of carbon emissions worldwide.
Yet our farmers are under increasing strain to produce ever more food as the world population swells and as more people embrace urban, meat-rich lifestyles - the United Nations estimates farms will need to produce 50 to 60 per cent more food by 2050.
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