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Agriculture is facing a paradigm shift. Its future is not just about autonomous robots, smart sensors, artificial intelligence or other such high tech that might ease the life of farmers.

For centuries, we have cultivated the land in a way that causes environmental issues. New technology now allows us to clear a completely different path for farming. A path that can initiate a pervasive green transformation of all of society. It’s all down to something as fundamental as what we grow on fields and what we put in our mouths.



The meat industry is one of the most important branches of the Danish agricultural sector. Most of the cultivated land in Denmark is used to produce animal feed. But what if we could get a lot more meat out of a much smaller area? And what if this was not the only thing we could get out of the crops?



"The biodiversity crisis, pollution of nature and the environment and the climate crisis are massive issues that can all be solved by the same approach. It entails a total and complete reorganisation of the way we create food, and it has far-reaching consequences for carbon-based manufacturing industries."

 

Professor Lars DM Ottosen


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Uffe Jørgensen

Professor Department of Agroecology - Climate and Water

Lars Ditlev Mørck Ottosen

Head of Department Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering