Agriculture

How to feed 9.7 billion people by 2050

Anastasia Volkova is the CEO of the Australian farming technology start-up called Flurosat. FluroSat has its roots in the University of Sydney Inventing the Future course. The project was born out of founders’ desire to find innovative solutions to complex…

They sell scarves, they sell oil, and they sell medicinal cannabis too. Whether its hemp yarn, oil or cannabis, it all comes from the same Cannabis sativa plant. Yash Kotak, one of the seven founders of the Bombay Hemp Company, tells Grin…

Artic Warriors is an exciting start-up based in Finnish Lapland at the Artic Circle. It was started by three people who wondered why, while superfoods were the buzz around the world, no one cared about the magical produce of food and herbs grown in and…

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is the world’s largest (not-for-profit run) mid-day meal programme serving wholesome food to 1.66 million children from 13,839 schools across 12 states in India. It is a not-for-profit…

Tristan Lecomte built France’s biggest fair trade and organic food company called Alter Eco. Then he embarked on a journey to convince businesses around the world that the environment and its protection is not what they need to do…

In the hills of Wales, a former video journalist and a teacher of philosophy have built a delicious start-up called Welsh Lavender. In 2003 Nancy Durham and her Oxford tutor husband WH ‘Bill’ Newton-Smith decided to plant lavender at their farm in Wales. The farm has now become a…