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Located amid the often chilly Canadian prairie, Downtown Calgary isn’t typically seen as a center of agriculture. Travel, though, to the Calgary Tower Centre, a landmark building in Alberta’s largest ...

Vertical farming is highly adaptable to our future increased use of robotics, AI, data sensing, and data processing. Much of this work is repetitive and backbreaking, so it makes sense to use machines ...

Agrifood systems are currently under pressure to address harsh challenges such as rising global populations, climate change, and the depletion of critical natural resources, exacerbated by the impacts ...

By 2050, the world will need to produce about 60% more food to feed a global population of more than nine billion people.

The biggest challenge faced by the vertical farming industry is, without doubt, running costs. And it’s this that has led many, including Agricool and Glowfarms, to shutter. “One of the most commonly ...