Greenhouse gases from food production create a vicious cycle: As Earth gets hotter, farming gets more difficult in many places, which forces farmers to clear more land to grow food.
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Researchers from Tsinghua University and Brown University have discovered a simple way to give a major boost to turbulent heat exchange.
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Historically black land-grant colleges and universities were created to be centers of food and agriculture research, but in reality many of their students live in food deserts with little access to grocery stores or restaurants.
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As days of extreme heat get more common, there are a few simple solutions that cities around the world are implementing to keep people a little more comfortable.
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Three French horticultural partners are trying to use the sun to its foremost by installing ASCA photovoltaic films at a commercial greenhouse.
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Atlanta nonprofit Food Well Alliance announces City of East Point has been selected to pilot new City Agriculture Plan in partnership with the Atlanta Regional Commission.
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Stefano Boeri Architetti has unveiled its vision for the first vertical forests in Africa, in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
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Aquaponics systems are sustainable and environment-friendly, as there are no toxic wastes and run-offs from chemicals.
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U.S. fast food customers’ growing expectations for healthier, ethical and more environmentally sustainable options directly correspond with the values and produce that the Vertical Farming industry provides.
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A new study from the World Bank and UN finds we’ll need ways to boost yields faster than ever before to prevent agricultural emissions from soaring.
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America’s Farmers, Reeling From Floods, Face a New Problem: No Water. The breach of an irrigation canal left more than 100,000 acres of farmland in Nebraska and Wyoming without water at a critical point in the growing cycle.
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Agribusinesses need to get smarter in order to utilize their same plots of land in ways that deliver greater, more reliable yields.
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In this exclusive interview, Agritecture spoke with Kevin Krueger, the Procurement and Sustainability Manager at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and we learned about the hospital’s urban agriculture initiatives.
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The 2019 Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone” is predicted to be the second-largest on record.
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Pink Farms secures early funding to bring vertical farming to Brazil
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Some rubber dandelions grow rapidly in hydroponics with rubber-producing roots becoming large enough for rubber extraction in a fraction of the time required in fields.
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Increasing funding is pouring into vertical farming startups across the world
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Engineers from the University of Cambridge have developed a vegetable-picking robot that can autonomously identify and harvest iceberg lettuce, one of the more manually demanding crops for human pickers.
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Issues like food miles, water waste, and chemical fertilizers and pesticides continually plague the modern agricultural industry as farms attempt to meet the rising demand of more and more mouths to feed.
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Bolivia to be completely food independent in 2020 by investing in small farmers.
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Jérôme Doucet, president of Montel , explains how tiered mobile shelving systems can increase growing space without a facility expansion.
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Vertical Harvest to study expansion of greenhouse concept into Chicago. With $500K grant it will look at potential for vertical greenhouses at housing developments.
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AeroFarms raises $100m from ‘Patient Capital’ to continue steady growth of vertical farming business.
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Students built a hydroponic school farm that now yields almost 100 pounds of organic food each month.
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Two seawater greenhouses have been planned in Iran.
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The MightyGreens Mushroom Factory by Fazenda Urbana produces mushrooms onsite for Zona Sul Supermarket in Rio de Janeiro
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Intelligent Growth Solutions, a Scottish vertical farming tech provider, has raised £5.4 million in Series A funding.
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Silicon Valley startup FarmWise announced a new partnership with Livonia, MI-based Roush, a legacy manufacturer and engineering services firm, to develop and test an autonomous machine that weeds row crops.
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