Agritecture Blog
MAY 26, 2023
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.
Agritecture Blog
DECEMBER 29, 2022
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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The Lunatic Farmer
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
Agritecture Blog
MARCH 16, 2023
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.
Agritecture Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
A recent report by McKinsey revealed that while Africa has large amounts of untapped agricultural land that could be used to increase production, much of this land is in unreachable areas. The lack of infrastructure, conflict zones, forest cover, and large conservation areas has made lots of arable lands inaccessible.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 15, 2024
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.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 4, 2023
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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