Future Farming Initiative:
the next frontier is
bio-manufacturing
we look at CEA technologies from a broader perspective: what began as mastering plant cultivation in any environment now extends beyond them embracing other life-forms bringing them into controlled, environments where they can become powerful bio-factories not just to produce food
the potential for this Nature-inspired manufacturing is enormous: “The World Economic Forum has estimated that the disruption could lead to annual business opportunities worth $10 trillion and create 395 million jobs by 2030 (…) For companies in such industries as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agriculture and food supply, and advanced materials and manufacturing, the disruption is likely to be greater than anything that digital technologies have wrought.”
on top of CEA, from synthetic biology to precision fermentation, we are building an ecosystem where each technology amplifies the others. FFI is a collective effort: pooling expertise from emerging startups and established market leaders to achieve more, and faster, than any single actor could. Future Farming Alliance is our federations of partners with complementary capabilities and aligned industrial vision
FFI is a unique gateway to talent and IP express by the Italian R&D ecosystem born in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and endorsed by the Italian Ministry for Research, FFI is backed by PNRR funds to accelerate technology transfer from lab to market and part of the Italian Government’s Piano Mattei for Africa to export enabling technologies to development countries. On top of our 10.000 sqm of labs, we have access to talent and start of art facilities in all the major Italian research institutions
