Essential is a bioscience organization leveraging advances in fermentation to create low-cost, high-quality, climate-resilient proteins that can be integrated into products to prevent and treat malnutrition
Our vision is to bend the arc on malnutrition and create a world in which everyone has access to affordable and nutritious food.
Our Why: We believe that creating locally-grounded breakthrough innovations is key to solving the most important problems of our time.
Our What: We are advancing the millennia-old process of fermentation to catalyze a new model of climate-resilient protein production in Sub-Saharan Africa and create affordable, accessible, and sustainable proteins that can be integrated into products to prevent and treat malnutrition.
Our How: We leverage cutting-edge science in fermentation and biomanufacturing to create new solutions that tackle malnutrition and transform food systems.
Our Why
We believe that creating locally-grounded breakthrough innovations is key to solving the most important problems of our time.
Our What
We are advancing the millennia-old process of fermentation to catalyze a new model of climate-resilient protein production in Sub-Saharan Africa and create affordable, accessible, and climate-resilient proteins that can be integrated into products to prevent and treat malnutrition.
Our How
We conduct cutting-edge R&D in the bio-sciences to create new solutions that transform food systems and tackle malnutrition.
We need transformative action on malnutrition, food systems, and climate change
Malnutrition is one of the most important problems of our time
● More than 820 million people are undernourished globally and roughly 200 million children suffer from malnutrition.● Nurition-related factors contribute to nearly half of all under-5 deaths.Our food system is one of the largest driver of climate change
● Food systems account for ~30% total greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe), 40% of global land use, and 70% of fresh wateruse.● Food systems cause environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and deforestation.Climate change is wrecking agricultural systems and fueling malnutrition
● Draughts and temperature volatility are reducing agricultural yields and nutritional value, destroying crops, and killing livestock.● 96% of agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is not irrigated, introducing broad and systemic risk from changes in rainfall.
