The Skyscraper Crop Factory: A Potential Crop-Production System to Meet Rising Urban Food Demand
Vertical farming systems, such as sky farms, are a potential type of agricultural system for stable and effective food production. Here, we highlight the potential of the sky farm, denoted as the “skyscraper crop factory” (SCF), for cereal crop production and discuss some nascent technologies that w...
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| description | Vertical farming systems, such as sky farms, are a potential type of agricultural system for stable and effective food production. Here, we highlight the potential of the sky farm, denoted as the “skyscraper crop factory” (SCF), for cereal crop production and discuss some nascent technologies that would be applied in this production system. SCFs are ideal crop-production systems for increasing the effective arable area for crops and ensuring food security in times of crises that cause a shock in global trade. They can also provide food in urban areas to meet producers’ and consumers’ demands for the increased nutrition, taste, and safe production of cereal crops. Moreover, as their use can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, SCFs could be a sustainable addition to conventional agricultural crop production. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3d3ff143b0be480aa0b3b32517adfb842024-04-07T04:35:29ZengElsevierEngineering2095-80992023-12-01317075The Skyscraper Crop Factory: A Potential Crop-Production System to Meet Rising Urban Food DemandLi Zhang0Lan Huang1Tao Li2Tao Wang3Xiao Yang4Qichang Yang5Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IUA-CAAS) & Chengdu National Agricultural Science and Technology Center (NASC), Chengdu 610213, ChinaInstitute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IUA-CAAS) & Chengdu National Agricultural Science and Technology Center (NASC), Chengdu 610213, ChinaInstitute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, ChinaChengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, ChinaInstitute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IUA-CAAS) & Chengdu National Agricultural Science and Technology Center (NASC), Chengdu 610213, China; Corresponding authors.Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IUA-CAAS) & Chengdu National Agricultural Science and Technology Center (NASC), Chengdu 610213, China; Corresponding authors.Vertical farming systems, such as sky farms, are a potential type of agricultural system for stable and effective food production. Here, we highlight the potential of the sky farm, denoted as the “skyscraper crop factory” (SCF), for cereal crop production and discuss some nascent technologies that would be applied in this production system. SCFs are ideal crop-production systems for increasing the effective arable area for crops and ensuring food security in times of crises that cause a shock in global trade. They can also provide food in urban areas to meet producers’ and consumers’ demands for the increased nutrition, taste, and safe production of cereal crops. Moreover, as their use can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, SCFs could be a sustainable addition to conventional agricultural crop production.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809923004265Vertical farming systemCereal crop productionPlant factory technologySkyscraper crop factory |
| spellingShingle | Li Zhang Lan Huang Tao Li Tao Wang Xiao Yang Qichang Yang The Skyscraper Crop Factory: A Potential Crop-Production System to Meet Rising Urban Food Demand Engineering Vertical farming system Cereal crop production Plant factory technology Skyscraper crop factory |
| title | The Skyscraper Crop Factory: A Potential Crop-Production System to Meet Rising Urban Food Demand |
| title_full | The Skyscraper Crop Factory: A Potential Crop-Production System to Meet Rising Urban Food Demand |
| title_fullStr | The Skyscraper Crop Factory: A Potential Crop-Production System to Meet Rising Urban Food Demand |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Skyscraper Crop Factory: A Potential Crop-Production System to Meet Rising Urban Food Demand |
| title_short | The Skyscraper Crop Factory: A Potential Crop-Production System to Meet Rising Urban Food Demand |
| title_sort | skyscraper crop factory a potential crop production system to meet rising urban food demand |
| topic | Vertical farming system Cereal crop production Plant factory technology Skyscraper crop factory |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809923004265 |
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