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Grow Pod Solutions Develops New Vertical Farm Technology That Needs No Sun or Soil

Grow Pod Solutions, the premier developer of technology-enriched automated indoor farms, announced the development of their new Hydrologic Technology (HLT), which grows crops with no sunlight or soil, and uses about 90% less water than a conventional outdoor farm.

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Philips Lighting and Ecobain Gardens Transform First Commercial Vertical Farm Operation in Canada

Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, today announced the completed installation of Philips GreenPower LED Production Modules at Ecobain Gardens, the largest commercial vertical farm operation in Canada

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Urban Farming Insider: Indoor Urban Farming Tips from Ally Monk, CEO and Co-Founder of Motorleaf

Ally Monk and Ramen Dutta co-founded  Motorleaf, an indoor hydroponic and greenhouse automation startup in 2015, when Ramen made the first working prototype (image of a current product below). CEO Ally shared with us the history of Motorleaf, the role of Artificial Intelligence in Urban Farming, and tips for indoor urban farming beginners

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Ikea Releases Open Source Designs For A Garden Sphere That Feeds A Whole Neighborhood

If you’ve already constructed Ikea desks and chairs, then it’s time to take your skills to the next level. 

This week Space10, an Ikea lab for futuristic, solutions-oriented designs, released open source plans for The Growroom, a large, multi-tiered spherical garden designed to sustainably grow enough food for an entire neighborhood. Hoping to help spur local growing and sourcing, Space10 made the plans available for free on Thursday.

 

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Why We Need Technology As The Key Ingredient In Our Food

When asked how food security and production can be improved in Africa, former Rwandan minister and current president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Agnes Kaliba, had one simple answer: “Access to technologies.”

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GE Lighting Horticultural LED Lights Are Specifically Designed for Controlled Environment Agriculture

GE Lighting has been offering horticultural LED lights to the North American market since 2011.

“GE had been marketing horticultural LED lights in Japan prior to introducing them to the United States,” said Sharee Thornton, Product Manager at GE Lighting. “The reason for not introducing them sooner was the U.S. horticulture market was just starting to work with LEDs and GE was still developing the products specific to this market

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Crofters, A Startup Helping You Grow Completely Organic Food Right Inside A Living Room

“The industrialized farming methods based on fossil fuels are putting a huge amount of pressure on our planet. To come up with technically advanced systems that can enable farming in urban areas in a sustainable manner is the need of the hour. The food we eat is engineered to travel long distances and 50 percent of our food is wasted even before it reaches us. We need ways to produce healthy local food."

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Women In CEA Startups

Interest in furthering the development of controlled environment agriculture (CEA) is propelled forward by the idea that we can create real solutions to some of humanity’s basic needs: like growing nutritious food. By bringing farming under cover, be that in a hoophouse, greenhouse or vertical farm, we have found ways to closely monitor and manipulate growing conditions

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The Ag Tech Market Map: 80+ Startups Powering The Future Of Farming And Agribusiness

As population growth increases the need to ramp up food production, tech startups are creating a range of agricultural software, services, farming techniques, and more aimed at bringing more data and efficiency to the sector

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Modular Aeroponic Farms Open Door to Clean Energy Urban Agriculture Modular Aeroponic Farms Open Door to Clean Energy Urban Agriculture

Generally speaking, agriculture is rich in opportunities for clean, efficient energy self-generation and, more broadly and significantly, improvements at the nexus of energy, water and food production and use

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MIT’s Food Computers Set the Stage for Open Source Agriculture

Most of us probably don’t think too much about the foodstuffs we buy in the supermarket. But behind the scenes, today’s food production system relies on a centralized, industrial-scale supply chain that’s still dependent upon soil-based agriculture for the majority of our food crops

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