Agriculture has allowed the world’s population to grow. The challenge of climate change causing weather extremes impact food security significantly and threatens human well-being and life. Innovation has brought vast improvements that contributed to the success of agriculture. Will innovation in agriculture develop fast enough to catch up with the potentially devastating consequences of climate change? Perhaps we all need to act now!


Dr Apostolos Papadopoulos has been passionate about crop farming from a young age. His fascination about how plants grow, use resources and respond to environmental stimuli has fuelled his academic development as a crop and soil scientist over 10 years at various Universities. His passion for applied research resulted in being involved with the industry and establishing Crop Intellect Ltd as a vehicle to develop disruptive technologies that contribute to solving major agricultural issues globally. Having invented technologies that tackle crop productivity barriers, protected these with patents to enable global reach, the technologies are now used in millions of hectares increasing crop production sustainably. R-Leaf is his latest technology which is simply sprayed on plants and converts air pollution (NOx) into nitrogen fertiliser, contributing significantly towards reducing the impact of climate change. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx