Vertical Farming

Human civilisation has always depended heavily on agriculture. Yet, maintaining traditional farming practices has grown more difficult as a result of population growth and rising food demand. With its dry environment and scarcity of agricultural land, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a good illustration of this. Thankfully, technology is…

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through vertical farming — Today, the human population is growing and continues to rise to 9 billion towards the early 2040s. The resources of the Earth are finite and to protect the planet and the people on it, the United Nations (UN) agreed on 17 interlinked sustainable development goals (SDG) as a call to…

There are common sayings within real estate such as “there’s only so many houses they can have in the neighbourhood” or “there’s only so much land…” The point that is being made is that there is a limited amount of fixed supply for an ever increasing demand. The same goes…

Vertical farming had been touted by numerous experts as the future of food production in a warming world. In 2023, however, such companies are already withering, and key players have called it a day. If farming conditions become untenable due to climate change, we’ll just take our crops indoors, right? In theory, the concept of vertical farming may seem an easy win for the future of food production. …