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Vertical Farming Monitoring: How Does It Work and How Much Does It Cost? [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Climate change, resource scarcity, and a growing world population are some of the problems facing traditional agriculture. For this reason, new cultivation systems are emerging, such as vertical farming.
Juan CARLOS Sanchez +2 more
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Vertical Farming: The Only Way Is Up? [PDF]
Agronomy, 2021 Vertical farming is on its way to becoming an addition to conventional agricultural practices, improving sustainable food production for the growing world population under increasing climate stress. While the early development of vertical farming systems
Thijs Van Gerrewey +2 more
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The Role of Plant Growth-Promoting Microorganisms (PGPMs) and Their Feasibility in Hydroponics and Vertical Farming [PDF]
Metabolites, 2023 There are many reasons for the increase in hydroponics/soil-free systems in agriculture, and these systems have now advanced to the form of vertical farming. The sustainable use of space, the reduction in water use compared to soil-based agriculture, the
Faten Dhawi
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A methodological tool for sustainability and feasibility assessment of indoor vertical farming with artificial lighting in Africa [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 African agriculture is bound to face challenges for its future food systems development and economic transformation. Indoor vertical farms with artificial lighting represent an opportunity that has been gaining relevance worldwide, thanks to their ...
Ivan Paucek +5 more
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Recent developments and inventive approaches in vertical farming
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems“Biomimicry” is an acronym used to describe how people looked at nature for inspiration to tackle a variety of problems. The modern problems of fast-increasing urbanization, land degradation, climate change, pandemics, loss of biodiversity, and ...
Janaki P
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Computers, 2022 Vertical farming is a new agricultural system which aims to utilize the limited access to land, especially in big cities. Vertical agriculture is the answer to meet the challenges posed by land and water shortages, including urban agriculture with ...
Edi Santosa, Riki Siregar
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Current Biology, 2023 Ji et al. introduce vertical farming, a production-scale crop-growth system within an enclosed structure that maximizes space-use efficiency by growing plants vertically and precisely controls the plant environment.
Ji, Yongran +2 more
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Plant Beneficial Bacteria and Their Potential Applications in Vertical Farming Systems [PDF]
Plants, 2023 White James F
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Expanding the Level of Technological Readiness for a Low-Cost Vertical Hydroponic System
Inventions, 2021 Climate and social changes are deeply affecting current agro-food systems. Unsustainable agricultural practices and the low profitability of small farmers are challenging the agricultural development of rural areas.
Juan D. Borrero
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Adaptive Vertical Farm for space farming
Mit Automatisierung gegen den Klimawandel, 2023 This work concerns a new concept of vertical farms that can be installed in orbital stations and future lunar settlements in order to produce fresh food for astronauts. The main novelty of this kind of greenhouse lies in the possibility of continuously adapting the volume assigned to each crop to the level of plant growth by automatically moving the ...
Patrizia Bagnerini +3 more
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