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
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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
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Certhon Innovation Centre
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Is Indoor Agriculture Reaching Its Tipping Point?
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Valoya LEDs & Innovators Conference 2018
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OSRAM acquires Fluence
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EU budget for Agriculture: €10 billion
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Is there a future for shipping container farms?
At first sight, farming in a used shipping container in a megacity parking lot might not look like a sustainable source of food. However many believe that there is a huge potential in this field of vertical farming and there are many startups introducing new designs for container farms, most
Reimagining Almeria’s Plastic Sea of Greenhouses
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