The rapidly growing population and increasing urbanization have created the need to
produce more food and transport it safely to urban areas where the majority of global …

As the world's population is increasing exponentially, human diets have changed to less
healthy foods resulting in detrimental health complications. Increasing vegetable intake by …

Major changes are needed both with regard to what we eat and how food is produced. The
latter is the focus of the present research, specifically the rise of controlled environment …

The recent increased market demand for locally grown produce is generating interest in the
application of techniques developed for controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to urban …

Food safety is an important scientific field, but at the same time a discussion topic of modern
society that occupies more and more space of our every day time, dealing with the …

Can skyscrapers survive after COVID-19? Can the idea of integrating vertical farming (VF)
into vertical architecture support the environmental, economic, and social issues in the post …

Fresh produce within vertical farming systems grows vertically in different layers stacked
atop each other, thus allowing for the efficient use of space. As the environment in vertical …

Vertical indoor production of vegetables may contribute to better nutrition. There is an urgent
need for economic assessments of vertical indoor farming. Vertical indoor farming would …

Light-emitting diode (LED) technology is paving the way to increase crop production
efficiency with electric lamps. Users can select specific wavelengths to elicit targeted …

In recent years, new forms of high-tech controlled environment agriculture (CEA) have
received increased attention and investment. These systems integrate a suite of …