New research and ongoing projects are growing food in space-mimicking conditions to develop new controlled environment agriculture (CEA) approaches. In August 2023, scientists released a study ...

New research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Virginia Tech suggests that technologies such as controlled environment agriculture and agrivoltaics may become part of the future of ...

Vertical farming can do more than lettuce. A research team has investigated the cultivation of six food groups in vertical farming: Crops, algae, mushrooms, insects, fish and cultivated meat. In this ...

Here is some food for thought: global experts anticipate that agricultural production will need to increase by roughly 70 percent by the year 2050 to feed the growing population and meet dietary ...

Vertical farming, and controlled environment agriculture more generally, holds the promise of environmental sustainability. But rising energy costs and challenging economic conditions are straining ...