Z G08: IDU Dragon's Den: Sustainability & Ecology

How can we sustainably feed 9 billion people by 2050?
As the world population grows and lives longer, we rely on farmers to enable a sustainable food supply. Farmers everywhere face various food production challenges that make it difficult to live up to their potential and produce more with less environmental impact.
Food is lost even before it reaches the consumer
More than a third of all food produced for human consumption is spoiled or damaged before it reaches the dining table, equating to 1.3 billion tonnes of food every year.

The Chinese government is taking dramatic steps in order to comply with the coal capacity target laid out in its latest Five Year Plan.

A video explaining how Beijing processes the 10 million Tons of rubbish every day.

China’s air quality has been an issue for many years. Recent attempts to curb the use of coal as an energy source have gone some way to alleviate the problem, but there is still work to be done

Two pollutants were found to cause an average 1.1 million premature deaths in the country each year and are destroying 20 million tonnes of rice, wheat, maize and soybean

The persistence of China’s air pollution may puzzle some, given the country’s campaign to curb pollution in recent years.

Officials are turning to technology to improve efficiency and tackle problems in urban China.

The next time you visit Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, don’t forget to visit the app store first.