Archive · 12 Jun 2025
Food Tech: Transforming Production and Addressing Global Hunger
Scientists are creating new ways to make food that are better for the planet.
This includes making meat in labs, using plants to create meat-like products, and using special methods to make proteins without using animals.
They are also making protein from air and using engineering to make crops more nutritious.
These new technologies aim to feed the world without damaging the environment, and although some are still in early stages, they show great promise.
Food-tech innovations aim to address global hunger and reduce agriculture's environmental impact.
Cultivated meat, plant-based alternatives, and precision fermentation are key areas of innovation.
Companies are using technologies like 3D printing and molecular farming to create sustainable food options.
Technologies like Solar Foods' Solein and spirulina algae are producing protein with high efficiency.
Biofortification and space-based solar power show further potential for food production.
- Who
- Companies like Upside Foods, Beyond Meat, and Solar Foods are leading the way.
- What
- Food technology innovations are transforming food production to address hunger and environmental concerns.
- When
- Food-tech funding rebounded in the first half of 2024 after a decline.
- Where
- Innovations are happening globally, including in the US, Singapore, and India.
- Why
- To combat global hunger, reduce the environmental impact of traditional farming, and create a sustainable food system.
Current challenges of the food system
Solutions through innovation
Environmental Impact
Current challenges of the food system
Traditional farming uses 70% of global freshwater, emits 11 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide annually and is responsible for 90% of deforestation worldwide.
Solutions through innovation
Food-tech seeks to change the system.
- Global Hunger
- 295 million people
- Lab-Grown Burger Cost (2013)
- $330,000
- Lab-Grown Burger Cost (Today)
- ~$20
- Plant-Based Meat Market (2024)
- $16 billion
- Plant-Based Meat Market (Projected 2033)
- $100 billion
- Zinc-enhanced wheat
- 1.8 million hectares in India
- Soil emission reduction
- 80%