Everywhere you look, farmers, environmentalists, activists, businesses, celebrities, and politicians are talking about climate change, polarizing the subject and postulating what will happen if we don't take action now. We know the way we are currently farming is harming the planet and our health, but we also know as farmers we have the skills to change the outcome. Some of the problems in agriculture are compounded by long food supply chains, intensive farming and over processing of foods. It remains challenging, in part due to the complexity of the global system we have built. We acknowledge we cannot resolve these issues individually, and campaigners all agree we need to work together to build resilience in the whole food system.
What role should the CEA industry play in sustaining the food chain?
The founding principles of controlled environment agriculture (CEA) should be to grow food by integrating technology with natural resources in environments close to the consumer, giving better access to healthy, pesticide free foods in a more sustainable way. Importantly, we want to explain how the right technology used in the right situation can help our farmers play their part.
There have been many discussions asking who should lead in CEA. We want to take a more holistic viewpoint, and want to know what role, if any, the CEA industry will play in the security and sustainability of our food systems. Sustainability in CEA has been defined in different ways, but essentially we want to understand how the following co-exist and their interdependency:
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