Climate change, severe weather, natural disasters, conflict and many more issues are disrupting global food supply and reducing food security. The need to produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed the growing global population adds to the pressure. Yet, we’ll have far less farmland to produce that food – at the current erosion rates, only 10% of all farmable soil will be left by 2050.

This episode of California Bountiful begins in Sonoma, where we take part in a cheesemaking class... and then we go all the way up with a look at indoor vertical farming.

A new statistical ranking by TIME and Statista ranks 250 of America’s top sustainability-­focused companies, based on their positive environmental impact, financial strength, and innovation, to see who is rising to the top of the field.

From its start as a student project at the University of Wyomng, Nate Storey's vertical farming enterprise has grown quickly to become a national leader in the field -- and some big-money backers are betting on it.

Join the BBC’s Planet Earth III crew and go behind the scenes in the city farm that’s transforming fields into towers and running almost everything with robots.

A key solution to creating space for the natural world to thrive may come from the increasing trend of growing plants vertically. 

Business Insider food correspondent Nancy Luna tours the Plenty vertical farm in Compton, California.

Rich DeMuro visits a vertical indoor farm run by Plenty in Compton, California. See how robots are growing some of the freshest greens around.