8A-Solving The Problem

Vertical Agriculture and Delivery Services:

My idea combines product and service into a hybrid that can take advantage of increasing food prices as a result of climate change. The two issues in this problem (transportation, and growing) are addressed by my solution

The modern-day developed country like the United States or Brazil has the vast majority of the population concentrated in heavily populated urban areas. The world is so concentrated this way that the entirety of the human race could fit shoulder-to-shoulder in the state of Connecticut. Things like waste disposal and food production often take place far outside these dense urban areas. My product/service, however, will make it so that some of the food we eat can join us in our tightly packed cities. How? In the same way, we fit people in cities: by building upwards instead of outwards. Hydroponics would allow for corn and soybean Production in indoor temperature-controlled buildings. These buildings would be in urban areas slashing transportation costs. The cost of hydroponic growth could be Balanced out by this and increasing prices due to global warming which reduces the current supply and increase the demand.

This product/service can produce primarily corn and soybeans but feasibly could produce other crops as well to sell to distributors and wholesale, while also providing cheap delivery services that can stay in the urban areas that need the products the most. This upward mobility could allow it to produce numerous crops in the future to fit whatever needs may exist.