Farming ideas to make a fortune: inside Brazil's food security festival
Written by Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Agriculture startups from around the world gathered at a vibrant conference sponsored by pesticide manufacturer
As confetti showers a theatre inside Rio de Janeiro’s normally sedate Museum of Tomorrow, electronic pop music pounds and dozens of young people crowd the stage to dance enthusiastically, hugging each other and waving flags as their audience films the festivities on their phones.
But this is not a religious event, or a disco. It’s an unusual conference that has attracted several hundred young people from across the world to pitch and discuss ideas on how to feed the world’s booming population with agriculture startups – and make their fortunes doing so.
[It's] very bleak for young people around the world so this is a moment they can get motivated and inspired
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