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Hunger and Sustainability Solutions with
Energy Curve Technologies
by Clayton Stallings , The EVOLUTION Magazine
High food prices have triggered a global crisis driving millions into extreme poverty , magnifying hunger and malnutrition . The number of people who are experiencing acute food insecurity and will need urgent assistance is likely to climb to 222 million people in 53 countries and territories , according to The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ) and the World Food Programme ( WFP ). 1 Domestic food price inflation remains high around the world . World Bank information between May to August 2022 shows high inflation in almost all low-income and middle-income countries ; 88.2 % of low-income countries , 91.1 % of lower-middle-income countries , and 93 % of upper-middle-income countries have seen inflation levels above 5 %, with many experiencing double-digit inflation . The share of high-income countries with high inflation has also increased sharply , with about 82.1 % experiencing high food price inflation . 2
Our world is heading very quickly into a global hunger crisis . We are lucky to have pioneering agricultural scientists like those with Energy Curve Technologies ( ECT ) who saw the writing on the wall decades ago and have been researching and developing new farming practices and technologies to bring sustainability to farming and “ Curve ” the food crisis .
Ben Elliot , Chief Science Officer for ECT , was asked to lead a study to verify the claims of the top 100 microbial nutrient lines on the current market . Only four of those entities actually contained all the microbials their ingredients label claimed to have . Microbials are living organisms added to the soil ; those living organisms die over time before they make it to consumers . ECT has fixed this issue with its nutrients .
ETC has also evolved the application process of these newly improved nutrients . Instead of the “ one and done ” approach that most farmers are used to , ECT ’ s is a three-phase process that addresses each separate phase of the plant growth — Early Growth , Veg State , and Production State . Each application has a different balance between NPK ( Nitrogen , Potassium , and Phosphorus ) that is specific to the particular phase of the plant ’ s growth . Instead of delivering synthetic nutrients , they deliver a symbiotic blend of microbes directly from the atmosphere and the soil .
ECT ’ s Benefit System for crop applications contains nutrient primers by including a largely diverse microbial population . These are the microorganisms that enter the plant , becoming part of the plant ’ s physical structure and providing enzymes to support the plant in times of good health and the opportunity to synthesize enough nutrients necessary for efficient growth . Benefit helps to increase the nutrient reserve the plant has access to during times of stress and lack of water .
20 November 2022
We toured Energy Curve Technologies in October , and met the team ( left to right ) Tyler Lau , Todd Sears CEO , Clayton Stallings of The EVOLUTION Magazine , Mitchell Melber , April Hatch , Chris Hope , and Julie Morgan .