Hidden in city car parks or warehouses, smart greenhouses promise to bring farming back to the city. But can these technology boost resilience?
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Indoor farming helps northern Manitoba communities access fresh, healthy food and address rising rates of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension.
Around 70% of the Britain’s 12,000 greenhouses are more than 40 years old. So there’s a huge opportunity for hi-tech horticulture to improve food security.
Rodents destroy around 70 million tonnes of grain each year. What if we could trick them into looking elsewhere for their food?
How to keep food prices down? Use technology to change the way we produce food and public policy to ensure there’s a fair price put on things like climate change, human labour and animal welfare.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has further destabilized global food chains supplies. Technological innovations like blockchain can help address these challenges.
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Director of the Arrell Food Institute and Professor in the Dept. of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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PHD Student, Geography, Environment and Geomatics/Arrell Food Institute, University of Guelph
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Lecturer in Design and Urban Technology, University of Sydney
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Professor of Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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PhD Student, Environmental Sustainability, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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PhD Candidate, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
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Director, Food and Agriculture Institute, University of The Fraser Valley
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Senior Research Officer in Conservation Biology, University of Sydney
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PhD candidate, University of Sydney
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Associate Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange - Reader in Plant Science, Edge Hill University
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Manitoba
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Discovery Early Career Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor, Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba