1. DryGro
Global demand for industrial meat and dairy products (especially in developing countries) is growing. This trend is driving up market demand for animal feed commodities already worth $150bn a year. This market in turn creates unsustainable new resource pressures. DryGro is an agri-tech startup that uses new lab technology to grow animal food cost- effectively in high-temperature, low water environments. Support from Climate-KIC will assist this solution achieve commercialization and demonstrate to investors that DryGro is able to provide large volumes of sustainable animal feed to replace current demand.
IMPACT: GHG adaptation, mitigation, climate smart food production, increased productivity, land use
STAGE: working with Climate-KIC flagship Climate Smart Agriculture Booster, the project is developing a one hectare demonstration farm in Kenya to prepare the technology and company for the next 10-hectare phase of development in 2018 in Europe.
SCALE: At scale, the technology not only offers affordable animal feed, and more sustainable land use, but shifts global water consumption patterns, increasing food security and decreasing pressure on water tables around the world. 
The key benefits:
Animal feed can actually be grown in arid regions with dramatically less water (99%)
Animal feeds can be grown on a tenth of the land required for traditional animal crops and a fifth of the costs
At scale, this could transform productivity, affordability and sustainability of this growing $150bn market
A real example which shows the potential: In Saudi Arabia, alfalfa crops used to be grown as feed inputs for their local dairy industry. In 2016, the Saudi Arabian government decided it would no longer grow these crops locally due to depleting aquifers and restricted water supply due to climate change. Instead, it would import 825,000 tons of alfalfa hay per year, the equivalent production of around 82,500 hectares of land. It is hoped, DryGro technology could produce a similar amount of feed using one tenth of the land.