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About 10,000 years BC, people harvested their food from the natural biological diversity that surrounded them, and eventually domesticated crops and animals.

For many thousands of years, people collected their food from the wild or hunted animals large and small.

This is the main way that chemical energy is harvested from food and converted to ATP energy.

Will we one day grow meat in labs and salad in skyscrapers?

We're developing solutions to the challenges facing Australian and global agriculture to provide sustainable and profitable farming systems for all.

...while a number of indoor farms are now operating commercially, at the moment the range of crops produced is limited and there are many questions about the environmental footprint and the best agronomic conditions (light spectrum and intensity, temperature, nutrition, etc.) for different crops.