Take an unused parking lot in the middle of downtown Atlanta, Georgia on Ponce de Leon Avenue, put five 320-square foot recycled shipping containers tricked out with proprietary technology to reduce overall energy consumption and increase crop yield and then grow three tons of lettuce, hydroponically.
This is exactly what a seed funded start up, PodPonics, did. Then they realized they had a contribution to make to the world’s food shortage with urban agriculture.
Fifty percent of the world’s population lives in cities. Wikipedia says that by 2015, 26 cities in the world will have a population of 10 million or more. To feed a city of this size at least 6,600 tons of food must be imported each day.With the global alarm clock going off over water shortages, land degradation and the lack of arable land to farm on, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Association (FAO) has predicted that feeding the world, expected to rise to nine billion by 2050, is going to be a problem.
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