Escape Velocity

Overview / Domain

Food and agriculture

Growing more food with less land, water, fertilizer and emissions.

Readiness on Technology readiness levelSDG: Zero hungerSDG: Life on land

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Cereal crops that obtain most of their nitrogen from the air, through their own nitrogenase, an engineered symbiosis or a partnered microbiome, so that high yields do not depend on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer.

Nitrogen derived from the atmosphere (%Ndfa): 82% now, target 100% (18 points) · 3 open gaps · not assessed