In Africa, innovation in agritech is not only exciting, it's essential. With a quarter of the economy of sub-Saharan Africa driven by agriculture-and more than 60% of the population made up of smallholder farms-technological innovation is the key to producing food that will not only meet the needs of a burgeoning population, but do it in a way that ensures the sustainability of the planet's natural resources.
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In Cape Town, there's a foodtech company looking at agritech and sustainability through a different lens-reverse engineering. While traditional agriculture involves growing grain that can be fed to livestock until it's time for the slaughterhouse, Mzanzi Meat are changing an age-old process by identifying the best parts of livestock and using cellular agriculture grow meat in bioreactors. These large-scale brewing vats mean that a single cell, cultivated from a cow, sheep or pig, can produce meat en masse. According
