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Challenges and Innovations Driving the CEA Sector in GCC and MENA

Agritecture Blog

Credit: World Resources Institute According to Strategy and PWC , GCC countries import about 85% of their food and approximately 56% of vegetables, largely due to the highly limited arable land in the region, averaging 4.25%. At the heart of each greenhouse lies cloud-based monitoring, facilitating optimal crop management.

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Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?

Civil Eats

In China, for example, research shows that plastic field covers keep the soil warm and wet in a way that boosts productivity considerably; an additional 15,000 square miles of arable land—an area about the size of Switzerland—would be required to produce the same amount of food. percent of global emissions.

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Agritecture’s Top 10 Blog Posts of 2022

Agritecture Blog

CEA can help to correct certain issues with traditional agriculture, such as limited arable land, limited water resources, and unpredictable weather patterns. Together, we are hoping to make it easier to launch and operate greenhouses in the United States and the six countries that comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Customers now include nearby restaurants, and with business booming, he’s put a 10-by-20-foot greenhouse in the backyard and hopes to upgrade to a larger vertical farming structure in the near future. With arable land at a premium— urban sprawl is a growing threat to the farming region—“I’m lucky to have a big yard,” says Mateo.

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WILD SCIENCE FICTION

The Lunatic Farmer

Environmental benefits will be profound with net greenhouse gas emissions from the sector falling by 45 percent by 2030. If all this freed land were dedicated to reforestation and efforts were made to utilize tree species and planting techniques intended to maximize carbon sequestration, all current sources of U.S.

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Exemplary Approaches to Hybridizing Agriculture

Agritecture Blog

Greenhouses and vertical farms, widely known as trusted methods of year-round agricultural production, seem to be context-agnostic solutions to agri-food supply chain disruptions, desertification, and other climate change-related problems. However, they have very significant capital costs.

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NOAA Is Rolling Out a Plan to Radically Expand Offshore Aquaculture. Not Everyone Is Onboard.

Civil Eats

Some producers have switched to land-based protein sources, such as soymeal and soy oil. But Schester says that approach creates a similar dilemma: taking protein from arable land that could directly feed people and turning it into fish feed. There is no free lunch when it comes to fish farming,” he adds.