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Ohalo, the company launched by David Friedberg, has come out of stealth and unveiled what they’ve been working on for more than 5 years.
Ohalo has invented a new technology called Boosted Breeding, which focuses on changing how plants reproduce, allowing them to pass 100% of their genes to their offspring, rather than 50%. Long story short, Ohalo uses proteins to “switch off” the reproductive circuits of the parent plants that cause the plant to split its genes.
Why is Boosted Breeding important? Usually, agricultural companies spend billions per year to improve crop yield by 1-2%. With this new technology, plants will improve their yield by 50-100%, resulting in much healthier and stronger plants. This will have a tremendous impact on productivity per acre, which means a huge increase in the total number of calories of the output.
How does Boosted Breeding impact world hunger? Many of the most common crops can only be planted in specific areas of the world, due to the conditions of the weather and land. The main reason why the world has this food problem is that many of the poorest areas don’t have good enough conditions for these crops. With this technology, we could create adapted crops to grow in these places, allowing an exponential increase in the total number of calories that could be farmed in these areas.
This week I read an interesting analysis from the Financial Times trying to analyse how could Europe shorten the gap with the US in terms of economic development.
In terms of innovation, the US has a huge advantage and it’s still growing:
(South Korea alone has nearly as much innovation as the EU).
European countries expect to work less hours, and the workforce is expected to decrease.
The lack of innovation and investment has also some productivity effects, which has also implications in GDP per capita.
Europe’s advantage over the US is on the fiscal deficit, which can’t be sustained forever.
