A Conversation with Henry Gordon-Smith
In anticipation of Ag 4.0 (6 Days Away!), Henry reflects on his start in the agriculture industry, and the importance of sustainable profitability in farming and beyond.
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Posts about: sustainability (4)
Abu Dhabi Partners with Chinese Firm to Convert Desert into Farmland
Officials hope the project can help address the UAE’s current reliance on food imports and bolster local production.
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The Future, With Urban Farming
In 2018, urban farming is a very hot-button issue. As consumers become more aware of the supply chain of their food, as well as the impact it has on the environment, it becomes abundantly clear that a lot of work is needed to make a real difference.
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An Accountant, A Farmer and A Teacher
For a city to be 'smart', it must include agriculture. This is exactly why the recent AgLanta Conference brought together professionals from far and wide to discuss the future of urban agriculture, 'smart cities', and the important integration that must take place between the two. Our s
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Big Data Suggests Big Potential for Urban Farming
A global analysis finds that urban agriculture could yield up to 10 percent of many food crops, plus a host of positive side benefits.
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URBAN FARMING IS THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE
The planet is growing more food than ever , and yet millions of people continue to starve worldwide. People are hungry everywhere — in the country, in the suburbs. But increasingly, one of the front lines in the war against hunger is in cities. New technologies are changing the
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ATLANTA SET TO HOST TWO MAJOR URBAN RESILIENCE CONFERENCES IN LATE MARCH
Atlanta is currently a booming city , and home to the third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the US. But as the population and economy grows, the city is also looking to reinvent itself from a sustainability standpoint. In 2016, Atlanta was named one of the Rockefell
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EUROPE’S ‘BEST-KEPT SECRET’: ITS BOOMING BIO-ECONOMY
Europe’s bio-economy is worth €2.2 trillion and employs 18.6 million people across the bloc, but a third of citizens are unaware it exists.
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THE SFERA PROJECT, A 13 HECTARE HYDROPONIC GREENHOUSE BEING BUILT IN TUSCANY, HAS RAISED 19 MILLION EUROS
Sfera , an active startup in the agritech sector, is creating a hydroponic greenhouse in Tuscany for the production of vegetables under the banner of environmental sustainability.
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YOUNG ENGINEER WINS U.N. AWARD FOR SPACE-SAVING AGRITECH
A young British engineer has developed a system that cuts the land and water required in traditional horticulture by 90 per cent.
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VINCENT CALLEBAUT PROPOSES 3D-PRINTING ‘FARMING BRIDGES’ TO REGENERATE WAR-TORN MOSUL
Vincent Callebaut has presented his winning project for the Rifat Chadirji prize, a competition that called for ideas to rebuild Iraq’s liberated areas in Mosul. Titled ‘five farming bridges’, the concept puts forward the construction of affordable and adaptable bridges &a
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Ikea’s Space10 develops the Algae Dome, a prototype for food-producing architecture
Space10, Ikea’s “future-living” lab in Copenhagen that brought us Growroom, the spherical urban garden , has developed a bioreactor called the Algae Dome in an effort to explore the potential that algae will have on the future of food and sustainability.
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Nature-inspired water collection system wins $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize®
An international team based in New York City has developed a prototype product that mimics the way living systems capture, store, and distribute water, and has been awarded the 2017 $100,000 Ray C. Anderson Foundation Ray of Hope Prize in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge .
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How Brooklyn Is Working Toward a Comprehensive Urban Agriculture Plan
A new piece of legislation in the City Council aims to transform the ad hoc nature of rooftop farms, schoolyard plots and community gardens into a comprehensive urban agriculture plan for the city.
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Viability of indoor urban agriculture is focus of research grant
Growing crops in controlled environments – in greenhouses, plant factories and in vertical farms – provides alternatives to conventional farming by producing food year-round near metropolitan areas, reducing transportation costs and water use, and improving land-use efficiency. Such local systems al
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College students built this $250,000 home that has a hydroponic farm and indoor greenhouse
A new solar-powered home created by a team of graduate students from the University of Maryland, features a wall that uses an agricultural technique called hydroponic farming. That means that produce grows in nutrient-rich water rather than traditional soil.
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This prefab concrete house harvests rainwater with food-growing vertical gardens
Students from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri designed this beautiful solar-powered home completely out of prefabricated concrete. Built to showcase the viability of building with concrete, the spectacular design includes a series of gutters on the exterior that serve as a large-scale h
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LETTERS TO A YOUNG FARMER: ON FOOD, FARMING, AND OUR FUTURE
During my travels around Southeast Asia, I picked up a new book called Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and our Future . It is a collection of letters by a slew of farmers, chefs, authors, and business leaders trying to advocate the younger generation to get engaged in the farming indus
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CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT ECOCITIES
The way we understand ecocities needs radical change in order to ensure a sustainable future, akin to our ancestors realizing the earth was round.
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