We’re excited to invite you to a landmark event in agriculture technology and sustainability: VertiFarm & AVF Summit 2024 This year, by purchasing a ticket to VertiFarm, you will also gain access to the AVF Summit, all under one roof from October 8th to 10th at Messe Dortmund, Germany. Let’s
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AVF Insights from the EPIC Technology Meeting on Photonics for AgriFood Industry
EPIC Technology Meeting on Photonics for AgriFood Industry – Enlightening the Future at DigiFoods The EPIC Technology Meeting on Photonics for AgriFood Industry took place in Oslo, Norway on the 23rd-25th April 2024. Association of Vertical Farming (AVF) Chairwoman Christine Zimmermann-Lössl was invited and gave a Keynote speech on Vertical
Strategies for Social Impact through Urban Agriculture: Insights from the Madrid Roundtable
Introduction AVF is an ecological system for Vertical Farming and is organising a series of ongoing Roundtable events looking at how the threads of the vertical farming ecosystems can weave together. In February, ISIFarmer and AVF hosted the first roundtable experience looking at “Strategies for Social Impact through Urban Agriculture
Cities best practices and challenges in urban agriculture implementation
📣 In a recent panel discussion moderated by Balance Phala from ICLEI, experts Jia Ni from FAO, Eva Keretic from the future food campus Hamburg, Millán Berzosa from ISIFARMER and Peter Wogenstein from food council niedersachsen shed light on the critical role of sustainable food systems and urban agriculture. Here’s
UAE wins AVF vanguard award
The Association for Vertical Farming (AVF) announces the Inaugural 2021 AVF Vanguard Award for Government Leadership in Harnessing Innovation for Sustainable Food Production. The prestigious annual award recognizes the extraordinary leadership of a State and/or Local Government in spearheading the development and commercialization of vertical/indoor farming and/or related innovations, including
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
Report from C40 World Mayors Summit
While Governments Fail to Deliver, Cities Lead in the Mission to Address the Climate Crisis Words by Ramin Ebrahimnejad, AVF Head of Education and Science There were just a couple of days between the UN summit on climate change and the C40 World Mayors Summit but the disparity in the
The Vertical Farming Fundamentals Course
Vertical farming is one of the most sought after terms on the internet today and a much discussed topic in the fields of technology and agriculture. It will become an important source of fresh, healthy, sustainably-produced food in the future. In our introductory course on vertical farming fundamentals, we first
Better Food for More People: Notes from The World Food Summit 2019
All of us know our food system is broken, but are we all willing to do what it takes to fix it? Better Food for More People “The global food system is a major driver of challenges relating to human health, the climate change and environment. We need to think