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The United Nations Organization (UNO) 2019 anticipated that the world’s population will reach 9.7 billion people by 2050. Feeding such a considerable population may be a frightful issue to settle. In addition to this, we are losing arable land every year due to industrial development and urbanization.
Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) systems like vertical farms and plant factories are suitable means to produce food in urban and rural regions and offer economic, environmental and social benefits.
On a sunny day last August, Daniel Malechuk opened the door to a 77,000-square-foot warehouse just outside Atlanta.
After more than two decades of espousing the benefits of vertical farming around the world, it seems Dr. Dickson Despommier is still every bit as eager to talk about the subject as I am.
Food. What we eat, and how we grow it, will be fundamentally transformed in the next decade.
Indoor vertical farming, where crops are raised in automated stacks, often in or near cities, offers a way to sustainably meet the growing demand for food — if its energy demand can be reduced.
