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Welcome to Exponential View with me as Emazar.

The world is changing at an amazing pace.

We are entering the exponential age.

It's propelled by radical, remarkable technologies.

Now, on this podcast, I want to explore the themes, topics, and questions that will help you make sense of it.

Sustainable food production is one of the challenges that will shape our world over the coming decades as our climate shifts and the global population continues to swell.

Food producers and technologists will have to come up with increasingly efficient and resilient ways to grow the food we need.

One method starting to gain traction is vertical farming.

It's growing plants in tall buildings or stacked shipping containers in very tightly controlled conditions.

Vertical farming uses far less land, energy, and water than traditional farming, at least in theory.

And by perfecting conditions inside facilities, vertical farmers could produce higher plant yields.

These methods have another huge advantage.

They can be carried out anywhere with total precision.

Imagine a world where you can grow letters in deserts or kale in city centers.

Today's guest is among the vanguard of the vertical farming movement.

He's a CEO of zero farms and integrated Italian vertical farming company looking to help solve one of the world's biggest problems.

Daniela Modesto, welcome to exponential view.

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