Floating Farms

As the world's population continues to grow one of the biggest problems we face right now is how to produce enough food to satisfy everyone's needs amazingly an estimated 30 percent of the global land surface is dedicated to agriculture and a third of that is used for crops and the remaining two-thirds is used for grazing livestock and this not only restricts the potential areas for inhabitation but also encourages large-scale deforestation and habitat change to create more farmland some companies are looking for alternatives to this and while you may have heard of vertical farms that look to improve the yield for the same size plot of land others are looking at far more radical solutions one is the idea of floating farms which can involve building huge complexes that sit on the surface of the ocean can be moved to where they're needed and crucially are temporary they make use of areas that wouldn't be used for anything else and turn it into a profitable commodity incredibly one of these has already been in operation for several years in the port of rotterdam in the netherlands where a company called belladon has built a floating platform designed to farm 40 muse rhine isle cows that are all milked by robots by producing the product as close to the end consumers as possible they're reducing transport costs too they also plan to be able to install floating farms in regions that have suffered from disasters to get food production up and running far quicker than would otherwise be possible.