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Urban Farming: Four Reasons It Should Flourish Post-Pandemic
Since lockdown, public interest in growing fruit and vegetables at home has soared. Seed packets are flying off…
How Urban Farming Tech Is Shaping The Future Of Food
As agriculture goes urban, it brings along technologies which may alter the future of food. Urban farming is…
How Can Urban Farming Feed The World?
The infusion of data, automation, and agriculture may be the solution to global food security. By the year…
Urban Farming Produces More Than Food: Social Networks Are A Key Spinoff
Urban agriculture, the cultivation of crops and animals in an urban environment, is known to increase access to…
How Urban Farming Helps City Folk Get Back To Their Roots
Along with fresh fruit and vegetables, city farms are providing communities with jobs, start-up programs, knowledge and social…
Urban Farming: Alleviating The World’s Food Dilemma One Community At A Time
There are 7 billion-odd people living in the world today, with an estimated rise to 9 billion in…
How Urban Farming Could Change Hawaii
For all its lushness, the state imports the vast majority of its food. Advocates like Hunter Heaivilin think…
Urban Rooftop Farming Takes Root In Hong Kong
In a concrete jungle like Hong Kong, the thought of lettuce bonding with skyscrapers may seem implausible. But…
The Rise And Significance Of Urban Agriculture
The term ‘agriculture’ might evoke thoughts of a rural landscape. You might think of rolling fields and farmland.…
Is Your City Making You Fat? How Urban Planning Can Address The Obesity Epidemic
New disease outbreaks, like the novel coronavirus that recently emerged in China’s Hubei province, generate headlines and attention.…
What Can Bees Teach Us About Building Better Urban Ecosystems?
Vacant land and urban agriculture are rejuvenating wild bee populations. Bees love cities. What can cities do to…
Rooftop Farming: Why Vertical Gardening Is Blooming In Kampala
Ugandans are finding creative solutions to the growing challenges of urbanisation. When Martin Agaba realised his urban farm…
Working With Nature Can Help Us Build Greener Cities Instead Of Urban Slums
As Australian cities grow and transform, we need to ensure we are not building the slums of the…
Ethiopia’s Radical Redesign For Relentless Urban Growth
As Addis Ababa creaks under the weight of a mushrooming populace, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest housing project is under…
Why Urban Farms Still Need Their Wild Side
The beginning of agriculture changed human history and has fascinated scholars for centuries. Yet it’s hard to study because it…
Urban Organicity, The Benefits Without The Maladies?
Cities – we are repeatedly told – are the future. Governments and global corporations seek to increase productivity…
Can Australia’s Climate Change Mission Be Saved With Farming?
Australia’s agricultural lands help to feed about 60 million people worldwide, and also support tens of thousands of farmers…
Your Starter Kit For Your Own Urban Farm In Singapore
Don’t let limited space stop you from growing your own produce. Farming in Singapore is no longer limited…
Vertical Urban Farms Finds Cute Endorser In Snoopy, Finally
A Montreal-based architecture firm has Snoopy make the case for turning New York’s MetLife Building into the world’s…
Why Farming Should Return Back To (Pre)school
A group of architects proposed a new design to help raise environmentally responsible kids. Under the distant gaze…
Urban Farms : The New Frontier For Female Farmers
Vanessa Hanel is a twenty-nine year old female farmer living in the heart of grain-and-cattle country in Calgary,…
Discover How The Future Of Urban Farms Produces More Than Food
Most urban centers have a bad rap for pollution and energy consumption, but the cities of the future…
The Future Of Urban Farms In Shipping Containers
In shipping containers, urban farmers can grow a large yield in small spaces. The gray lot under the…
How A New York Urban Farm Is Fighting Big Oppressive Food Systems
On a small farm in Grafton New York, a group of people are dismantling oppressive food systems in…
Microsoft + Urban Agriculture = An Amazing Harmony
There’s a quiet, green revolution growing in the middle of Microsoft’s Café 34. Under plasma lights, lettuce thrives…
City Agriculture, China’s Urban Farms and Gardens
For centuries, the Chinese have referred to the fertile region around Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province in southwestern…
Three Ways Cities Can Help Feed The World, Without Costing The Earth
Climate change is underway, and human activities such as urbanisation, industrialisation and food production are key contributors. Food…
HUNGRY FUTURE: If Cities Take Over Fertile Farms
Cropland losses will have consequences especially for Asia and Africa, which will experience growing food insecurity as cities…
Why These 10 Cities Are Best For Growing Food
Homes in these cities have the most gardens, greenhouses and chicken coops. With continued awareness around GMOs, pesticides,…
As More Of Asia Prospers, Obesity Becomes A Weighty Deal
Extra body weight has long been associated with wealth, as evident from Renaissance art to stereotypes of modern…
Top 10 Places For Growing Foods In Cities In The USA
People have been growing food and raising livestock across the United States for centuries—even in cities. But it…
And Cool, Intelligent Farms, Right Under Our Feet …
The “world’s first underground urban farm” is set to start selling herbs and salads grown 33 m (108…
A Complete View Of A City’s Carbon Footprint
By focusing on emissions from goods consumed in a city, Berkeley researchers paint a more accurate picture. The…
The Future Of Food In A Box
Aquaponics uses fish to create soil-less farms that can fit into cities much easier. On an early June…
11 Essential Things To See In Singapore
Even travellers who have ventured to Singapore in the past might not recognise the island today: the city-state…
The Floating Gardens Of Uppsala
The Swedish city debuted its buoyant pocket park as a way to promote urban farming. When a designer…
Farmscrapers, Entire Cities In Wobbly Looking Towers
Architect Vincent Callebaut’s “Asian Cairn” project imagines a future where we house residences, offices, and even entire food…
Unleashing Creativity In Environmental Global Political Economy. Part 1.
Exploring Unconventional Solutions Within Current Political And Economic Structures. The environment is considered within International Political Economy (IPE)…
COP27: Why it matters and 5 key areas for action
COP27 is the next meeting of the group of 198 countries that have signed the UN Framework Convention…
Why Antimicrobials Matter In The Fight Against Covid
In these pandemic times, many people may ask why we should bother with antimicrobials when we know what…
Why Sustainable Food Systems Are Needed In A Post-COVID World
Food systems are essential to economic activity because they provide the energy that we need to live and…
Why So Many Epidemics Originate In Asia And Africa – And Why We Can Expect More
The coronavirus disease, known as COVID-19, is a frightening reminder of the imminent global threat posed by emerging…
Top Tips For Setting Up A Business In A US City
Setting up a business in one of the USA’s many large cities is much different from starting up…
Plague Was Around For Millennia Before Epidemics Took Hold – And The Way People Lived Might Be What Protected Them
One of civilization’s most prolific killers shadowed humans for thousands of years without their knowledge. The bacteria Yersinia…
What Sort Of ‘Development’ Has No Place For A Billion Slum Dwellers?
Imagine a community of 200,000. Convivial, walkable, six times the density of Manhattan but with a smaller ecological…
Eight Ways To Halt A Global Food Crisis
There are serious challenges to global food supply everywhere we look. Intensive use of fertilisers in the US…
Designing Cities To Counter Loneliness? Let’s Explore The Possibilities
Do you feel lonely? If you do, you are not alone. While you may think it’s a personal…
How Can Countries Help Refugees While Also Raising Their GDP? Let Them Work.
Uganda is an eye-opening example of how displaced people can lift up a nation, say economics professor Paul…
How Cape Town Was Saved From Running Out Of Water
Late last year, as the South African government faced the prospect of its largest city running out of…