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Agriculture in Orange? An Indoor Farm Could Soon Be Approved

Instead of the traditional outdoor farming that one might be used to seeing in sparsely populated corners of the state, the latest trend in the industry tends to be centered around locations that would previously never have been thought to be associated with agriculture

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WeWork Launches WeWork Food Labs, an Innovation Lab & Accelerator For the Future of Food

To provide both and also foster young, innovative companies across the food chain, WeWork has launched WeWork Food Labs, an innovation hub for food companies that rolls physical workspace, programming, a startup accelerator, and a food industry community into one package

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NL: How Vertical Farms Make Safe Food More Accessible

Seven Steps To Heaven is a company from Eindhoven founded by Gertjan and Lianne Meeuws, which grows fresh produce in the high-tech vertical farm using LEDs instead of daylight in combination with temperature and evaporation control

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Farm to Fork: Local Producers to Meet 30 Percent of Singapore’s Nutritional Needs by 2030

Home-based producers now meet less than 10 percent of Singapore’s nutritional needs, and Singapore imports more than 90 per cent of its food supply

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A Hydroponic Farm In A Refurbished Train Car Is Enriching The Denver Community

Another innovative urban farm is in Denver, this time fully centered around cultivating community. Metro Caring is partnering with Saint Joseph Hospital to bring a Freight Farm to the Mile High City, thanks to a donation from the Morgridge Foundation

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How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in US Cities

…researchers have calculated that Cleveland, with a population of 400,000, has the potential to meet 100 percent of its urban dwellers’ fresh vegetable needs, 50 percent of their poultry and egg requirements and 100 percent of their demand for honey.

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Nepal: AeroRoots Wants To Transform Nepal’s Agriculture By Farming In The Air

In 2017, Rana and Singh designed a system with over 150 plants and put it at Rana’s house. “At that point, we were in a hit and trial process. We didn’t know if our system would work,” shares Rana.

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iFarm's Urban Greenhouses Deliver Organic Revolution

iFarm continues to carve out more real estate in the agtech space following an investment from Gagarin Capital. The technology will allow automated vegetable production in cities

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Swedish Vertical Farming Company Plantagon International Bankrupt

Another major vertical farming bankruptcy. This week, Plantagon International has been declared bankrupt. Cash flow problems turned out to be insurmountable for the Swedish company

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Earth Notes: Urban Agriculture

Vertically stacked growing shelves, closely spaced plantings, and covered beds are helping farms fit in where space is often restricted.

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Race On To Make Urban Agriculture Viable, Durable

A key ingredient is the trend in ever more imaginative forms towards urban agriculture, a multi-faceted recipe already being poured over by some 800 million people globally, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation.

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Indoor Agriculture May Hold The Future of Food

Paris has meanwhile come up with its own urban agriculture model, dubbed “Pariculteur,” a series of town hall-mandated projects designed to cover as much of the capital as possible with greenery via a rise in urban farming. An initial 10 hectares for the project is set to grow to 30 hectares by next year