Food markets offer food to millions of people globally, particularly those living in expanding cities. Urban ‘wet markets’ selling perishable goods, however, have increasingly been viewed as a public health concern. Fresh produce risks cross contamination in markets selling meat, fruit and vegetables without sufficient health and safety measures in
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The road ahead for vertical farming
“In the next 10-15 years, vertical farming will rise as one of the dominant forms of agriculture.” In a recent webinar presented by the Association for Vertical Farming and Heliospectra, the opportunities and challenges facing the vertical farming industry in 2020 and beyond were highlighted, resulting in quotes like the
Re-Engineering America’s Fresh-Produce Supply Chain Post Covid-19 for Greater Resilience, Inclusiveness and Sustainability
The UN World Food Programme announced just last week that over a quarter of a billion people around the globe could suffer acute hunger by end of this year in large part owing to the coronavirus crisis — a doubling of the 130 million people estimated to experience severe food
Life Cycle Analysis in Vertical Farming
Students of Wageningen University (NL) develop framework and tool for Life Cycle Analysis in Vertical Farming Live webstream on Thursday, July 5, 13:30 – 14:30 CET Sustainability is at the heart of vertical farming. It is therefore crucial that we are able to validate our sustainability claims to third
International Plant Factory Symposium
The 2018 Shanghai International Indoor Plant Factory Symposium (June 12-14 2018) aims to bring together the world’s leading experts in indoor farming. The show features both attendees and exhibitors from global commercial cultivation enterprises, private research facilities, and universities in an exchange of ideas, innovations, and technologies. Shanghai Academy of
AVF Pavilion Round Table Discussions
GreenTech Amsterdam and the Association for Vertical Farming are partnering in organizing a dedicated Vertical Farming pavilion where all innovation, knowledge and technology in Vertical Farming comes together. The Vertical Farming pavilion will feature the AVF café with a superb programme of ’round table talks’ lead by international experts on
Certhon Innovation Centre
The brand new Innovation Centre of Certhon has been put into use. Two years of research preceded before the Innovation Centre, says Jeroen. “In addition to the successful indoor projects we have realized, research was done into the optimization of the technology of daylight-free cultivation. In the innovation centre, with eight
Valoya LEDs & Innovators Conference 2018
Valoya will bring the industry experts into one room on June 13th at Greentech 2018 to talk about crop science and light, vertical farming and cannabis. The Crop Science and Light section will be kicked of with Valoya’s biologist, Ms.Stefanie Linzer, presenting the groundbreaking Speed Breeding technique that enables a double
OSRAM acquires Fluence
– Osram acquires one of the world’s leading suppliers of smart grow lighting – US-based Fluence expands Osram’s portfolio of horticultural systems – Osram is pioneering the digital automation of smart farming solutions by combining intelligent lighting, sensors, and smart software Osram is taking the next step in its quest to
EU budget for Agriculture: €10 billion
The new European Commission research program is going to have a €100 billion budget from which €10 billion is for food, agriculture, rural development and bioeconomy research. The commissioner for agriculture, Phil Hogan: “All of the various agri-tech projects we couldn’t support in the past have a chance to get funding now.”