UK supermarket shelves have been left bare of fresh produce in recent weeks – growing more fruit and veg in cities could reduce the severity of future shortages.
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Urban farms can work in developing countries if farmers and architects are aware of conditions that favour food production in built spaces.
The future of Christmas food could include artificial meat, soil-free veg and hybrid protein treats.
Combining aquaculture and hydroponics, aquaponics unearths value in “waste” flows and re-routes them back into the economy. It’s an inspiring example of how a circular-economy business model can work.
Any base on the moon would need very thick walls.
The global population will top 9.5 billion by 2050 – but cities could play a major role in making sure everyone has enough to eat.
The thin layer of soil on our planet’s surface ultimately sustains us all, but it’s a finite resource. With a growing global population, perhaps it is time to start looking for alternatives.
Vertical farms grow more food but use much more energy, so let’s consider other kinds of urban agriculture.
If humans are to live on Mars they will need a stable supply of food. Earth plants are not suited to the Mars climate but we can engineer plants that are.
Hydroponics and aquaponics are already being used by the agriculture industry – is it time urban farmers got on board?
Urban consumers in Africa are rapidly growing and they are demanding high quality, pesticide free food.
Urban farms might be trendy, but they won’t replace rural agriculture anytime soon.
147m people used the drug last year. We need to know much more about it.
Essential reading for green-fingered urbanites and guerrilla gardeners.
Turns out that growing food hooked up to fish tanks is actually a pretty good idea.
The 21st century has seen rapid urbanisation and the global population is now expected to grow to more than 8.3 billion by 2050. Currently, 800m hectares – 38% of the earth’s land surface – is farmed and…
The challenges of growing enough food to feed the world have grown more severe in the 21st century. We need to feed more people with limited agricultural land and resources. We need to make better use…
In 1947 the Sydney Basin produced “three quarters of the State’s lettuces, half of the spinach, a third of the cabbages and a quarter of the beans; seventy percent of the State’s poultry farms were in…
With 87% of the Australian population living in urban areas, Australia is considered a highly urbanised country. Feeding all these people is becoming more fraught, but city buildings could be part of the…
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Professor of Digital Agriculture & Soil Science; Director, Sydney Institute of Agriculture, University of Sydney
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