A Hungarian technology innovator is proposing an answer to alleviate world hunger.

UN World Food Director of World Food Programme (WFP) David Beasley reportedly claimed that just 2% of Elon Musk’s Wealth could greatly help solve world hunger. In response to this claim, Elon Musk tweeted “If WFP can describe (…) exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.”

“Indoor farming is the most viable solution to achieve this,” says Jorge Bauer, Tungsram President & CEO. “It is an exciting and disruptive technology that balances on the thin line between agriculture, industry 4.0 and digital technology to provide feasible global solutions and produce staple food for large numbers of people in a sustainable way.”

Tungsram is a lighting and technology manufacturer that is already making progress towards creating a viable solution for the global food crisis. The Tungsram team recently opened a 150 sqm vertical farm in Budapest to facilitate and advance their research in indoor farming. 

Currently dedicating their focus towards achieving two goals, Tungsram want to introduce food factory units for the African continent and zero-waste, circular food clusters. The food factory units will provide necessary nutritional needs within rural areas with adverse climates, while the circular food clusters will guarantee local decentralised food production within metropolitan areas.

Bauer explained that, “establishing millions of these units could provide healthy and available food independent from weather, season, every single day of the year.” 

By funding the development of this project, the research will pave the way for future breakthroughs, such as atmospheric water capture that could provide water in arid areas, and accelerated breeding that could make plants grow quicker and richer in nutrients without genetic modification. 

Bauer stated, “I’m ready to share the details of our plan with WFP, FAO and Mr. Musk himself.”