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This Moroccan startup is growing crops in the desert
  + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
Sand to Green is a Moroccan startup that can transform a patch of desert into a sustainable and profitable plantation in five years, according to Wissal Ben Moussa, its co-founder and chief agricultural officer. Wissal Ben Moussa, Sand to Green co-founder and chief agricultural officer. “My top three favorite trees are carob, fig and pomegranate,” Ben Moussa says. “With this system we create biodiversity, which means better soil, healthier crops and a bigger yield,” Ben Moussa says. “We can go anywhere in the world as long as we have access to brackish water,” Ben Moussa says.
Persons: Wissal Ben Moussa, , Ben Moussa, Sand, Morocco that’s, ” Ben Moussa, , Green Organizations: London CNN, United Nations, UN Convention, Biosaline Agriculture Locations: Africa, South America, Europe, China, Moroccan, Biochar, Morocco, Asia, Dubai, Tanzania, Sand, Mauritania, Senegal, Namibia, Egypt, United States
Six innovations that can help feed the world
  + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Mark Tutton | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
CNN asked three experts to outline the innovations that can help increase food production without harming the planet. Insect proteinSingapore-based Insectta uses black soldier fly larvae to convert organic food waste into fertilizer and animal feed. The maggots are fed food waste, such as the byproducts of soybean factories and breweries. Don Emmert/AFP/Getty ImagesMadramootoo says that a wholescapes approach can also be applied to food production in urban and peri-urban areas – the spaces immediately surrounding a city. “In congested peri-urban areas, we can use vertical farms in warehouses or abandoned buildings, for example, to produce food.
Abu Dhabi-based startup StarLab Oasis, a spin-off from Texan company Nanoracks, wants to grow seeds in outer space in order to develop plant varieties that can survive on a less hospitable Earth. In 2023, StarLab Oasis expects to send its first seeds into orbit. From soybeans to quinoa, seeds grow differently in space than on land. Sending seeds to space will help “sustainability, climate change, and food security on Earth,” StarLab Oasis’ co-founder Allen Herbert tells CNN Business. It plans to work with companies, space agencies, universities and non-profits, to send seeds to space either for research or commercial purposes.
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