No, Vertical Farms Won’t Feed the World While they are well-intentioned, new indoor “farms” won’t help feed the world or reduce the environmental impacts of agriculture. We would be better to focus our efforts elsewhere. We’re beginning to see a new [...]
Yes, Indoor Agriculture Can Feed the World And for many food crops, it already does Barendse-DC in Middenmeer, The Netherlands grows vegetables in 30 hectares of greenhouse . Photo by Micki Seibel, December 2018 I recently toured The Netherlands with a [...]
[indoor farming]Let’s Talk About Market Size How big is the market opportunity for data in indoor farming? Bigger than you think. I’m often asked how big the market is for indoor farming. Investors are curious to know how many farms [...]
The Future of Farming is Not Farming Sarah MockBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Dec 16, 2016 From driverless tractors and robotic pickers to technologies that preserve fresh produce 5x longer, we are obsessed with using technology to solve the many, many challenges in our [...]
Key stats: 815 million: the number of people on the planet who suffer from hunger, 1 in 3 from malnourishment 70%: the amount global food production must increase to meet population growth demands by 2050 2/3: the fraction of [...]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Container Farms It’s time to have an honest conversation about container There’s almost nothing that rouses more cheering here at the Bright Agrotech office than seeing new farmers make their first sale. [...]
