A 70-Acre Farm on a Vacant City Lot?

130 years ago, a man by the name of William Le Baron Jenney forever changed the nature and the image of urban dwelling.

Relying on an internal steel structure, Jenney designed the 12-story Home Insurance Building, which went on to hold the title of world’s tallest from 1884 to 1889.

Modest by today’s standards, this first “skyscraper” was a proof of concept and allowed urban environments to continue to grow upwards when there was no land left on which to grow outwards.

Today, this technology allows millions to be crowded onto chunks of land just a few miles across and has helped send the human population into its most dramatic growth spurt in history.

The problem, of course, is that with every game-changing innovation like vertical habitation, there comes the problem of too much success.

Today, overcrowding is that problem. It’s affecting all parts of the world, and in the poorest parts, it is already the root cause of famine and disease.

Cities and industrialization have helped us create too many people. Today, we need to find a way to feed all of them or face a die-off just as dramatic as the population explosion of the last century.

And that solution is already here.

Next time you’re driving through a city and see a vacant lot or a condemned warehouse, try to visualize the image below in its place:

What you’re looking at is a vertical farm, and in the next few decades, this technology will do for food production what the skyscraper did for human habitation almost a century and a half ago.

Limitless Farmland

It looks futuristic, and you may have even seen concepts like these in science fiction movies, but this exact sort of structure is now being tested for mass implementation.

The problem is simple: We simply don’t have enough arable farmland left on earth to sustain population growth. The solution is also simple: When you can’t build out anymore, build up.

But to perfect this technology, it took 15 years of work and millions of dollars in private investment.

Today, we’re on the threshold of a shift no less significant than the one that created modern urban dwelling to begin with.

Already, the concept has proven able to multiply the production capacity of land by at least a factor of 15 — allowing for a farm-sized grow operation to be stacked on a single city block.

Not only that, but enclosed vertical farms also benefit from minimal water loss to evaporation — making the process of growing not just far more controlled and weather non-dependant, but efficient as well.

Like I said, it’s a major idea. Big enough to change agriculture entirely.

The company bringing it to fruition, however, is the real story.

It’s not a giant billion-dollar multinational corporation or even a well-known food producer… although companies like that are scrambling to do business with this company and license its technology.

The company is small. Very small, in fact. Less than $10 million market capitalization.

All the Puzzle Pieces Are in Place

Moreover, its key investor, who is also the lead scientific and engineering mind behind the product, is a true-to-life brilliant entrepreneur on par with Elon Musk or Steve Jobs.

What those two did for cars and computers, this man has been trying to do for food production since the turn of the 21st century.

Trust me when I say that it’s in all of our best interests that he succeed… Because without the widespread implementation of this exact technology, the effects of continuing population growth on already maxed-out food production capacity will lead to the biggest human disaster ever.

That’s no exaggeration. It’s just simple math.

As you can tell, I’m a bit fired up about this whole thing, and not just about the potential for worldwide food shortages and war.

I’m fired up because I see a need, and I see a solution.

I’ve spent the last several months researching the company behind the technology and following its work as the first full-scale commercial vertical farm unit is tested by one of North America’s biggest produce suppliers.

You’ve never heard this company’s name, but believe me, in a decade or so, its innovations will be commonplace.

A few days ago, I released an exclusive insider’s look into this company and the technology.

I even talked to the man behind it all to get an understanding of what’s been inspiring him for the last 15 years.

It may well go down as the biggest business story this decade and the biggest trade you’ll ever make — if you get the inside story early enough.

Fortune favors the bold,

Alex Koyfman

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