Artificial Photosynthesis Can Produce Food Without Sunshine
Scientists have found a way to create food independent of sunlight by using artificial photosynthesis.
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Emirates Flight Catering Opens World’s Largest Vertical Farm In Dubai
The farm will save over 250m litres of water annually and produce over 1m kg of food.
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How Good Food Enterprises Are Thriving In The Covid-19 Era
Food retail is highly consolidated, enabling big chains to raise prices, pay low wages and glean huge profits without accountability. How can we change this?
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Urban Farm Hopes City Grant Will Sow Seeds For Local Produce Industry
Sunspring’s co-founder and CEO Chad Kolesnik said he’s hoping to partner with the city and local not-for-profit Fresh Routes to grow produce hydroponically.
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Greening The Camps: Empowering Refugee Communities With Food Production
Greening the Camps is a collective of young designers, crafters, plant lovers, and social activists in Jordan, working to reconnect the refugee community with their farming heritage, providing a low-tech solution to food insecurity and creating a tiny green oasis amid the harsh reality of the camps.
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The 8 Most Popular Mushroom Cultivation Techniques For Commercial Growers & Amateur Mycologists
Mushroom cultivation is the art and science of harnessing mycelium, the root-like structure of fungi, to promote the growth of mushroom fruiting bodies.
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New Study Shows How Much Food Transport Contributes To Emissions
Food systems create 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
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This B-Corp Is Making Sustainability A Priority For Chefs, Restaurants, & Food Groups
Harvest London is a vertical farm growing herbs and leafy greens in London, that has expanded their operations beyond the pilot stage into their very first full-scale operation. This success is owed to the renewed interest in controlled environment agriculture throughout England.
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Building Sustainable Brands With Agritecture's Digital Marketing Manager
Meet Agritecture’s Senior Digital Marketing Manager, Isabelle Dom!
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USDA Announces Assistance For On-Farm Food Safety Expenses for Specialty Crop Growers
The USDA plans to provide up to $200 million in assistance for specialty crop producers who incur eligible on-farm food safety program expenses.
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A Social Enterprise Celebrates Their First Year In Operation During An Economic Meltdown
Meet Farms Not Arms (FNA), a design collective that recently celebrated the completion of their social enterprise, Turba Farm’s, first year after navigating Lebanon’s scary economic meltdown.
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Soil-Free Farming & Solar Agriculture Are Part Of Chile’s Carbon Neutral Plan
Traditional agriculture in Chile is challenged by the pressing issues of climate change, desertification, water shortages, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Vertical farming presents a strong solution to these problems by allowing for food production with reduced water and land use.
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Wasting Food Is Wasting Water: Unveiling Food’s Water Footprint
Food waste is water waste.
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From Chef To Brewer & Urban Farmer: How One Entrepreneur Is Closing The Loop
Avling Brewery, a restaurant and brewery with a rooftop farm, approached Agritecture when they were looking to expand production of their rooftop farm and explore opportunities to integrate controlled environment agriculture.
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Mushrooms, Metropolises, & More With Agritecture’s Agriculture Technologist
Meet Agritecture’s Agriculture Technologist, Justin Hyunjae Chung!
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I want to be an ‘agritect’
Seven years ago, I remember staring across West Broadway in Vancouver (Canada) at an empty rooftop above a Safeway grocery store. I couldn’t help but wonder how a greenhouse on the supermarket’s rooftop would look like and function
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Smallhold Expands: Meeting West Coast Demand & Accelerating Circularity
Smallhold has announced the opening of their third mushroom farm in California!
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Food Miles Account For A Sickening Amount Of Emissions
A new study has found that 'food miles' account for 19 percent of all food emissions.
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Sunway XFarms To Launch Largest Indoor Vertical Farm In Kuala Lumpur
Sunway XFarms, a Malaysia agritech company, will launch Kuala Lumpur city centre’s largest indoor vertical farm in the third quarter of 2022.
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Bringing Food Production Back To Cities
We need to inspire city governments, urban planners, developers and architects to rethink the way cities are designed.
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NYC Agriculture Collective & Thought For Food Partner For NYC AgTech Week 2022
The NYC Agriculture Collective & Thought For Food Foundation join forces to launch the 7th Annual NYC AgTech Week and the First-Annual Generation Fest.
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Perfumes & Pharmaceuticals: How Vertical Farms Are Disrupting Industries
Jungle is entering the perfume and cosmetics industries, launching R&D programs to better extract rare flowers for special recipes.
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Inside The Movement To Turn Residential Communities Into Farming Collectives
For most Americans, by the time a piece of fruit or vegetable lands on your counter or in your refrigerator, it has traveled about 1,500 miles. For residents of Detroit's North End community, it’s a matter of a couple of city blocks.
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Reusable, Zero-Waste, Raw & Cardboard: 4 Solutions To Plastic Packaging
Food packaging, which is often designed to be single-use, is one of the biggest polluters. Here are 4 brands looking to change that.
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Kalera’s New R&D Director Bets On Sensing Technology To Push Vertical Farming Forward
Kalera is pushing forward their commitment to innovation with the recent hire of a Global R&D Director. Here’s an exclusive interview!
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Vertical Farms Have The Vision, But Do They Have The Energy?
Unlike traditional outdoor growing, indoor farms are dependent on LED lighting. Using fossil-fuel-powered electricity can undermine the potential environmental benefits.
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How Creating A Healthy Soil Microbiology Can Help Us Reverse Climate Change
In calling for an urgent change in farming practices, “regenerative agriculture” has become a major buzzword in many agriculture and climate circles.
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4 Of The Biggest Challenges For CEA Entrepreneurs In India
Here are the top four obstacles we’ve observed in the struggle to establish a thriving CEA industry in India.
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