Vertical farms, building a viable indoor farming model for cities

The number of vertical farms has grown to several hundred farms across Asia, Europe, and North America since the first appeared back in 2010. Using different types of technologies, vertical farms are a new type of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) that could be described as a stack of greenho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dickson Despommier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut Veolia Environnement 2019-09-01
Series:Field Actions Science Reports
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/factsreports/5737