In order to sustain a world population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050, we will need to double global agri production over the next three decades. Thanks to a number of global trends that are influencing food security, poverty, and the overall sustainability of food and agricultural systems through digital technology, usually referred to as ‘AgTech’.

In the developed world it is becoming increasingly hard to source labour to do some of the less pleasant tasks on poultry farms, and some argue that a key way to improve welfare is to improve the amount of environmental monitoring that takes place on farm.

Researchers associated with 3 different universities merged minds to look at the various microsensor technologies applicable to real-time metabolic monitoring of the rumen.

Sensors that detect plant signaling molecules can reveal when crops are experiencing too much light or heat, or attack from insects or microbes.