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Urban farms thrive under COVID-19

October 29, 2020

From community vegie gardens to vast vertical farms, city-based cropping ventures are proliferating as the coronavirus pandemic up-ends food supply chains and heightens food-security fears.

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Regional Development Australia ACT announces Canberra’s first urban vertical farm

August 27, 2020

The ACT’s first vertical farm installation has landed at Canberra’s Ginninderry development, a 6-star Green Star Community west of Belconnen.

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Why the future of farming is in cities: the big money in vertical farming

June 10, 2020

This video highlights some of the high-tech commercial vertical-farming operations supplying fresh greens to cities across the world – and some of the big-name investors backing them.

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Can urban-fringe indoor farms help in our recovery post-pandemic?

May 4, 2020

The supply-chain disruption precipitated by the pandemic shutdown may provide the motivation needed to reinvigorate urban agriculture, contends protected cropping expert Oula Ghannoum.

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Sustainable ‘hyper-local’ vertical farm proves timely

April 8, 2020

Sprout Stack runs Australia’s only commercial-scale vertical farm, growing fresh salad greens in the Sydney metro area. And with COVID-19 disrupting supply chains worldwide, the company’s low-food-miles position is proving advantageous.

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COVID-19 pandemic highlights need for vertical farming in cities worldwide

March 30, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic illustrates how critical it is for major centres of population to have localised agri-food production sites, contends Joel Cuello, Professor of Biosystems Engineering at The University of Arizona.

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Around the world in 7 futuristic farms: Creative solutions for tomorrow’s hungry planet

February 12, 2020

In the quest to cut food miles, cover less costly acreage and leave ever-smaller carbon footprints, food businesses are innovating like there’s no tomorrow.

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