In an e-mail exchange, Babylon Micro-Farms CEO Alexander Oleson tells me “we’ll have these in every school and apartment one day.” It’s a nice vision, and really the level of belief/commitment ...
Agrifood systems are currently under pressure to address harsh challenges such as rising global populations, climate change, and the depletion of critical natural resources, exacerbated by the impacts ...
Space-saving, low-input, pest-free: vertical farming is often regarded as a solution to many of conventional agriculture’s woes. But the findings of a new study draw a question mark over its prospects ...
By 2050, the world will need to produce about 60% more food to feed a global population of more than nine billion people.
The word farm was once equated with images of sun-kissed green fields in rural areas. That’s quickly changing. Not only are farms moving closer to urban areas, but they’re also getting creative in how ...
Teake Zuidema is a writer and photographer based in Savannah, Georgia. This story originally featured on Nexus Media News, a nonprofit climate change news service. On a sunny day last August, Daniel ...
Indoor vertical farming has been around for quite some time, but leading companies in this industry are starting to garner a great deal of attention from the business press even as investors have ...