Agriculture is one of the oldest human activities, and adapting it for climate change will require nothing short of a radical shift. Vertical farming — growing plants in controlled indoor environments ...

Agrifood systems are currently under pressure to address harsh challenges such as rising global populations, climate change, and the depletion of critical natural resources, exacerbated by the impacts ...

By 2050, the world will need to produce about 60% more food to feed a global population of more than nine billion people.

Fischer Farms has launched its New Eden consumer brand on Ocado - bringing salad leaves grown indoors at its hi-tech Norwich vertical farm ...

Space-saving, low-input, pest-free: vertical farming is often regarded as a solution to many of conventional agriculture’s woes. But the findings of a new study draw a question mark over its prospects ...

Rolling bankruptcies in global vertical farming over the past five years have slowed the industry’s momentum but not its ...

Think about the lettuce on your plate. Chances are, it traveled about 1,500 miles to reach your fork. In the US, lettuce travels about 1,500 miles (2,414 km) to get from farm to fork. That journey ...

Global demand for food is expected to increase 58–98% by 2050. But can our current agricultural systems support this change? These farms are grown in buildings within or adjacent to urban areas.

Vertical farming, a type of indoor agriculture where crops are grown stacked in layers, has been expanding in fits and starts since the late 1990s. As the technology has improved, more large-scale ...

Oishii’s retail expansion into Harris Teeter locations across Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia this fall, along with the planned 2025 opening of its R&D center in Tokyo, Japan, highlights the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vertical ocean farms are an innovative approach to farming that can produce food and minimize environmental damage, all while ...