Vertical Farming Archive

Con­sult­ing and research activ­i­ties have been gain­ing expo­nen­tial­ly in impor­tance for sev­er­al years - espe­cial­ly to enable the mea­sur­a­bil­i­ty of sus­tain­abil­i­ty figures.

This is cur­rent­ly increas­ing­ly demand­ed at the inter­na­tion­al polit­i­cal lev­el (ESG) - and also on the part of far-sight­ed, sus­tain­abil­i­ty-ori­ent­ed investors, there is a grow­ing real­iza­tion that the pro­duc­tion of healthy food must once again increas­ing­ly move to the side of the con­sumer, not least in order to ensure food secu­ri­ty with regard to new chal­lenges in terms of the sup­ply chain, which influ­ences pro­cure­ment and pric­ing. But also to pro­vide access to healthy food for all, there­by strength­en­ing local socio-eco­nom­ic net­works (key­word COVID-19) and build­ing resilience/resilience in our soci­ety. Urban agri­cul­ture is thus becom­ing increas­ing­ly impor­tant for urban plan­ning and policy.

Research results from the vfi show poten­tials on how cities can incor­po­rate urban agri­cul­ture into their poli­cies and, for exam­ple, acti­vate vacant land for food pro­duc­tion. In addi­tion, con­cepts for new build­ing typolo­gies - ver­ti­cal farms - can open up new busi­ness areas and, at the same time, jobs for new occu­pa­tion­al groups, thus mak­ing a pos­i­tive con­tri­bu­tion to mov­ing clos­er to the Glob­al Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals.