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 ...

In an e-mail exchange, Babylon Micro-Farms CEO Alexander Oleson tells me “we’ll have these in every school and apartment one day.” It’s a nice vision, and really the level of belief/commitment ...

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

It's not an art installation; it's rotisserie lettuce plants, going around and around inside a vertical farm, in the middle of downtown Jackson, Wyoming. This little tenth-of-an-acre plot produces 100 ...

The word farm was once equated with images of sun-kissed green fields in rural areas. That’s quickly changing. Not only are farms moving closer to urban areas, but they’re also getting creative in how ...

Space-saving, low-input, pest-free: vertical farming is often regarded as a solution to many of conventional agriculture’s woes. But the findings of a new study draw a question mark over its prospects ...

Teake Zuidema is a writer and photographer based in Savannah, Georgia. This story originally featured on Nexus Media News, a nonprofit climate change news service. On a sunny day last August, Daniel ...