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Stuart Oda on making farmers 'superhuman' and democratizing access to fresh and nutritious food

Agri Matters

English - November 26, 2020 06:11 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MB
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This episode, we speak to Stuart Oda, Founder and CEO of Alesca Life. Alesca Life is a Beijing-based indoor farming company with a global footprint.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:

1) How indoor farming can address many of the challenges the global food system is currently facing

2) How indoor farming could actually help other forms of farming increase their efficiency

3) The merging of where consumers live and where food is grown by making indoor farming more distributed in urban areas improving food security and community building

4) How agritech can make farmers superhuman and transform agriculture into being the most productive industry on the planet

For more information on Pinduoduo, you can follow us on Twitter @PinduoduoInc or visit: https://stories.pinduoduo-global.com/

This episode, we speak to Stuart Oda, Founder and CEO of Alesca Life, a 2019 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. Alesca Life is a Beijing-based indoor farming company with a global footprint, having set up container farms in China, Dubai and Singapore.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

 1) How indoor farming can address many of the challenges the global food system is currently facing

2) How indoor farming could actually help other forms of farming increase their efficiency

3) The merging of where consumers live and where food is grown by making indoor farming more distributed in urban areas improving food security and community building

4) How agritech can make farmers superhuman and transform agriculture into being the most productive industry on the planet

For more information on Pinduoduo, you can follow us on Twitter @PinduoduoInc or visit: https://stories.pinduoduo-global.com/