More than 2.2 billion people in Asia rely on agriculture for their livelihoods. But Asia’s food system is running on fumes:
90% of total water resources in many Asian countries? Sucked up by agriculture.
Rice fields? Climate villains. They pump out methane, a greenhouse gas at least 28 times worse than CO₂.
Livestock farming? A methane super-emitter. Southeast Asia alone drives 40% of global methane emissions from animals.
Food waste? It doesn’t just disappear in landfills. It rots, releasing even more methane into the air.
Let’s be real: We’re feeding billions today by wrecking tomorrow. The system isn’t designed for sustainability, it’s designed for scale. And that scale is eating the planet alive!
Deep tech is flipping the script on sustainable agriculture.
Orbillion Bio is proving meat doesn’t have to cost the Earth, transforming cultivated meat production with cell cultivation technology. And AlterPacks is proving that waste isn’t waste, it’s a resource. They’re turning plant-fiber waste into 100% bio-compostable packaging.
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