Per Lysaa and Intravision Group, Scandinavian leaders in CEA research Per Lysaa is CEO of Intravision Group, a photobiology and systems integration company working with new technologies for production of foods and plant-made pharmaceuticals. Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, they also have offices in Toronto, Canada and Shanghai, China. In 2010,
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Urban Agriculture: Macro Views and Micro Experience
AVF is pleased to announce Josef Schmidhuber, Deputy Director, Trade and Markets Division, FAO, as a keynote speaker at Urban Future Global Conference “There is a growing recognition that urban agriculture can make an important contribution to better diets at lower resource footprints, enhanced mirco-climates (ambient cooling) and even reduced
AVF Brings Vertical Farming Expertise to Horti China 2018
Announcing a panel of expert speakers At Horti China 2018, the AVF is hosting a conference entitled: “The Transformative Power of Vertical Farming: Scaling of Business.” We are pleased to announce two of our expert speakers who will provide keynote speeches and participate in the panel discussion at the end of
AVF @ Horti China 2018
The AVF is excited to partner and participate in Horti China 2018 Taking place in Shanghai, Horti China is the country’s premier international horticulture exhibition. Hortitech is a central focus of the event and we expect to see an array of innovative exhibits on plant factories, climatization and energy systems,
AVF Hong Kong Summit 2018
The transformative power of Vertical Farming will be on display at Asia’s leading agricultural trade show On September 5-7, Hong Kong will play host to Asia Fruit Logistica, one of the world’s largest fruit and vegetable trade conferences. With thousands of key stakeholders in the world’s agricultural supply chain meeting
Onward and Upward with Farmers Cut
The origin story behind one of vertical farming’s innovators The vertical farming movement is pushed forward by visionary thinkers and enterprising personalities. But they do not necessarily have to be farmers or scientists; one of vertical farming’s greatest characteristics is its inclusivity. By opening the world’s biggest industry to people
Notes From The Skyberries Conference
Skyberries: The three-day conference could be best characterized by broad-scope talks, specific topics and different views on how we could upgrade our global food systems. Highly influential speakers talked in this forum and the Q&A sessions turned into elaborative discussions about ideas. The second day of the conference ended with
Long Way Down : Africa Under the Spotlight
I walked out to the arrivals hall, passing maybe a dozen taxi drivers. I was clearly told not to use their service. “Take Uber instead” a friend once told me. I rushed out to the exit, no longer than 2 minutes passed before the driver I ordered pulled his car
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