Essential for
health
Vegetables and fruit have an huge positive impact on health.
Source: research University College of London 2014 Monitoring 65.226 people from 2001 - 2013
The crucial breakthrough in high-volume production of vegetable and lettuce
Vegetables and lettuce are crucial for global food security and so are their growers. Gentle Green have engineered a breakthrough climate system that is climate independent, fossil fuel free, highly water efficient and profitable.
Vegetables create the most responsible platform for global food security
but their large scale production is at risk
Essential for
Essential for
land use
M2 land use required for 1 kg of product.
Source: Okologie und Landbau 2011
Essential for
water
How thirsty is our food? Liters of water required to produce one kilogram of the following food products (global averages).
Source: Water Footprint Network
Essential for
climate
Mean dietary GHG emissions in kg CO2 equivalents.
"What has been most ignored is the need to also radically transform industrial food systems."
Dr Hans Herren - President of the Millennium Institute in Washington
supply chain
"Global food demand will increase at least between 30 - 62%, with up to 30% of the population at risk of hunger."
Nature Research team (2021)
PLANET
"Intensive agricultural practices places demand on approximately 70% of global freshwater."
Prof Dr Martin Stutchtey - University of Innsbruck
water
"The adoption of healthy diets is projected to lead to a reduction of up to 97 percent in direct and indirect health costs in 2030."
FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. 2020.
health
"The only way to feed the worlds population sustainably is to increase our fruit and vegetable intake to 50% of our diet."
Prof Walter Willett - EAT Lancet Commission
health
"if everyone became vegetarian by 2050 foodrelated emissions would drop by about 60%."
Dr Marco Springmann - Oxford University
emissions
"We must change our diet. The planet can’t support billions of meat-eaters."
Sir David Attenborough
planet
"The problem is that gas prices are incredibly high, they’ve gone from 15 to 20 cents a cubic metre to € 1,60. That’s too much to grow tomatoes."
Leo van der Lans - Leading Dutch Tomato Grower
Growers' business
"It is impossible with these gas prices to produce an affordable product."
Adri Bom Lemstra - Chairperson National Dutch Glass Horticulture
Growers' business
Gentle Green was established to solve a burning issue in food safety. Vegetable and fruit are the key to ensuring food safety world-wide. Yet current high-volume production platforms are unable to produce them in a future-proof and profitable way*.
*vertical farms are not a high-volume production platform
A breakthrough had to be made, urgently. Gentle Green combined experts and solutions from various industries to create a disruptive climate, energy, water and air system for greenhouses that is fully future-proof.
Open field has serious challenges
• water scarcity
• scarcity of additional arable land
• dependence on weather, limited process control
• threat of pests and diseases
• impact of climate change
• limited window for harvesting
• limited range of crops
Current greenhouse
systems struggle
• fossil fuel consumption leads to high heating cost
• insufficient control over temperature, humidity
and homogeneity in many climates zones/seasons
• severe energy and water waste
• CO2-loss, limited ppm control, polluting emissions
• ingress of viruses, bacteria, fungi and pollen