News · May 2023
Grow-Your-Own-Food Anywhere, Anytime
“Akar accelerates hyperlocal food security… by deploying modular indoor farming units in strategic center of urban communities in Indonesia.”
Summary
Team leader Farras Muhammad submitted Akar to the MIT Solve Climate Adaptation Challenge. The entry, last updated in May 2023, sets out the problem (fresh-food logistics across an archipelago), the solution (stackable units with nine sensors, rented as Farming-as-a-Service), the team (15 people, 8 of them farmers) and the stage (pilot, 25 units).
The application lists the team as Farras Muhammad (CEO & Engineer), Antonius Ardath Kristi and Dermawan Adjie (CMO & Co-founder), and names SDGs 2, 11 and 13.