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As we dive headfirst into the trifecta of seemingly urgent and unsolvable problems of Climate Change, Overpopulation and Food Scarcity, let’s take a look at the problem of food scarcity, and how synthetic or cultured food companies are tackling that issue. When we talk about cultured food in this article, I’m referring to lab-grown, cellular based food companies.

How much land is used for agriculture?

First of all, let’s take a step back and look at why we need to solve for this urgently. Based on scientific projections, we’re looking at a human population of 9.7 billion people milling about Earth by 2050. This is a whopping ~25% increase from the current 7.8 billion people in 2020. Not taking into account that with climate change and rising tides, we might be looking at lesser usable land over time, let’s now take a look at current land use....