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Feeding the World and the Role of Vertical Farming
February 28, 2019
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In 2017, the United Nations (UN) Department of Economic and Social Affairs reviewed global demographic trends and concluded a forecast of the world population to reach 9.8 billion in 2050. The outlook on an increase in population of…
Food Industry Encouraged to Innovate with New Novel Food Regulation
February 20, 2019
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The term novel food may sound simple, but it’s much more than that. Chia seeds were once isolated to impoverished regions of Central and South America, and milk once only had a shelf life of 12 days. But thanks to the power of the novel…
Challenge Accepted: Mini-Makeathon Vertical Farming Recap
October 17, 2018
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On Friday October 5th, sixteen young professionals and students from several Dutch (applied) universities came together at the Design Museum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, to think of their own food concept for vertically farmed…
Share Your Vision of Vertical Farming
September 26, 2018
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As part of the EU project, “Cultivating Engagement”, we would like to partner together with you to revision the concept of vertical farming! We would love to see and hear what you personally think of as vertical farming, and what images…
October 5th event: Mini-Makeathon
September 19, 2018
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On October 5th, students and young professionals will come together at the Design Museum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands to develop a new food concept for vertically farmed lettuce. The Mini-Makeathon is from 9.00 to 17.00. Registration…
Help us analyse vertical farming on Twitter!
September 12, 2018
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Since May 2017, the Cultivating Engagement team have been collecting tweets about vertical farming using some software specifically designed for Twitter research (Borra & Rieder 2014). Our Twitter dataset currently comprises over…
Re-visioning Vertical Farming - Food for Thought
September 05, 2018
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Though it officially kicked off at the beginning of the year, the Vertical Farming project began to really ‘cultivate engagement’ at the start of July when it made its way to the Deutsches Museum in Munich for a three-day citizen…
Is vertical farming really sustainable?
August 29, 2018
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Vertical farming uses empty buildings to renew neglected neighborhoods, it uses less water than traditional agriculture, but how else can it be sustainable? Here are some advantages and limitations to vertical farming
The origins of indoor vertical farming
August 23, 2018
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Do you know how your food produce was cultivated historically?