Participants in the World-wide food chain—including farmers, agribusinesses, processors, and distributors—have made great strides in increasing overall 'caloric availability'. However, they have not yet overcome environmental challenges associated with food and agriculture. In 2019 the world’s agri-food systems accounted for about 30 percent of human-caused global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, making them a critical focus for meeting increasingly bold climate targets.Five major shifts are needed to support the goals of 21st-century food and agriculture: building land value, fueling the biorevolution, eating sustainably, ESG accountability, and taking out the waste.This McKinsey article articulates these shifts: 

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Adelaide-based Sparc is prototype testing its photocatalytic reactor technology to split water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen molecules at CSIRO’s Energy Centre in Newcastle, New South WalesThe photocatalytic water splitting technology is expected to deliver cost and flexibility advantages over green hydrogen projects that use electrolysers or solar farms, given the lower infrastructure and energy requirements.Sparc executive chair Stephen Hunt said this is “a world leading demonstration of photocatalytic water splitting in a concentrated solar field"https://www.innovationaus.com/adelaide-uni-fortsecue-hydrogen-venture-starts-testing-prototype/

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