Unfortunately, we will certainly not have 100percent more high-quality land available to grow twice the amount of grain or livestock. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that added farmland will help produce only 20 percent of the additional food our planet will need in 2050, and 10 percent will come from increased cropping intensity. Accordingly, the FAO concludes that 70 percent of the world’s additional food needs can be produced only with new and existing science-based agricultural technologies and innovations.
By 2050 the world will need 100% more food.
Only 30% of these will come from Farmland.
1.1 The Future of Global Food
Today there are nearly 1 billion hungry people around the globe. Yet in only 50 years, our growing global population will require an estimated 100 percent more food than what we are producing today.
In 2050
- Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 2009
1.2 Ecofriendly
Our base processes and services in all our companies are so called environmental friendly, eco-friendly, and nature friendly, which mean that they inflict minimal harm on the environment.
We are also convinced of the use of organic agriculture, which is a production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects. In our view organic agriculture combines tradition, innovation and science to benefit the shared environment and promote fair relationships and a good quality of life for all involved.
1.3 Sustainability
Sustainable food production means an integrated system of production practices having a site-specific application that will, over the long term:
- satisfy human food and fiber needs
- enhance environmental quality and the natural resource base upon which the agricultural economy depends
- make the most efficient use of non-renewable resources and on-farm resources and integrate, where appropriate, natural biological cycles and controls
- sustain the economic viability of farm operations
- enhance the quality of life for farmers and society as a whole
„Sustainable food production is a system to provide people with sufficient food, which takes into consideration environmental awareness and conservation, economic feasibility, and community support“
1.4 Our Vision
- Meiert Johan Grootes – the visionary behind great inventions.
Towards the end of the 90’s Meiert J. Grootes realized that the most valuable portion of the grain is fed to animals.
If all the grain fed to animals went to people, you could feed China and India. From that day Meiert’s vision became “the sustainable use of agricultural by-products for a healthier living”.
A doubling in food demand poses huge challenges for the sustainability both of food production and of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and the services they provide to society. Food producers in industrialized and developing nations alike require technology to ensure a sustainable supply of safe, nutritious and affordable grain and animal protein to satisfy a rapidly growing demand. For this reason, and many others, we all share in the responsibility to ensure that new agricultural technologies — as well as those proven safe and effective over decades — continue to be available.
Our PANATURA® Concept is based on the fermentation of agricultural by-products or crop residues for direct re-entry into the human food chain instead through feeding to animals. PANATURA® process is free of any greenhouse gas emissions, low in water consumption and does not produce solid waste.