[Challenge:Future] Vertical Farming
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Vertical Farming Team aims to address future food scarcity by pioneering vertical farming techniques. Vertical farming involves cultivating plants on buildings and skyscrapers using green technologies like wind turbines, grow lights, and controlled environment agriculture. It would create jobs, increase crop production, conserve land, and make cities more self-sufficient. The team's dream is to establish vertical farms that utilize renewable energy while collaborating with engineers, biochemists, and following all laws and regulations. Universities should offer education in these fields to train future vertical farmers and create awareness through seminars, conferences, and youth programs.
![Our Dream Job
Introduction
By 2050, the world population is
to increase to almost 10 billion.
By 2050 it is predicted that 64.1%
and 85.9% of the developing
and developed world
respectively will be urbanized[1].
Hence, farming lands well get
scarce, this is why we need to
envisage an alternative solution
for farming, which is Vertical
Farming.
[1] : http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21564998-cities-are-turning-vast-data-factories-
open-air-computers](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/challengefuture-vertical-farming4820-130222155517-phpapp01/85/Challenge-Future-Vertical-Farming-2-320.jpg)
![Our Dream Job
o Controlled-environment agriculture (CEA):
This is an important tool in vertical farming, it consists on
enabling the farmer to handle crop’s environment to
the desired conditions (temperature, Ph, humidity and
nutrient analysis) .
Vertical farming will have a lot
of positive consequences
among them we can mention :
• Creating job opportunities for
youth .
• Increase crop production .
• No more worries about
whether ( tornados, flooding,
wildfires . . . etc.), or animal
danger (such as grasshoppers
or boars)
• Conservation of land : it is
believed that one unit of a
vertical farm is equivalent to
20 units in its natural state[2].
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/opinion/24Despommier.html](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/challengefuture-vertical-farming4820-130222155517-phpapp01/85/Challenge-Future-Vertical-Farming-7-320.jpg)
[Challenge:Future] Vertical Farming
- 1. Vertical Farming Team name : Temẓi Team creator: Idir Mahrouche Country : Algeria
- 2. Our Dream Job Introduction By 2050, the world population is to increase to almost 10 billion. By 2050 it is predicted that 64.1% and 85.9% of the developing and developed world respectively will be urbanized[1]. Hence, farming lands well get scarce, this is why we need to envisage an alternative solution for farming, which is Vertical Farming. [1] : http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21564998-cities-are-turning-vast-data-factories- open-air-computers
- 3. Our Dream Job Job Description Vertical farming is a revolutionary idea that would enable cities to feed themselves. It consists on cultivating plants on buildings, generally on rooftops and even on skyscrapers. This technique has already begun to attract farmers to adopt it. It is uses green energy: solar and wind energy may be used to feed the plants.
- 4. Our Dream Job Let’s watch this short video where Dr Dickson Despommier is talking about vertical farming :
- 5. Our Dream Job In addition to the bunch of engineers with whom a vertical farmer must interact, it is a must for him to work in close collaboration with the environmental services and respect law . In order to achieve this work, we will be needing to gather some technologies together, and what is special about them is that most of them are green technologies; We are listing some of them here below : o Skyscrapers : These are the building block of a vertical farm, it is the structure where will be the farm set up.
- 6. Our Dream Job o Wind turbines : These will be used to empower the structure, because we will be needing to electricity to make the facility work . o Grow light : In addition to the natural sunlight, an artificial light might be needed to augment the production .
- 7. Our Dream Job o Controlled-environment agriculture (CEA): This is an important tool in vertical farming, it consists on enabling the farmer to handle crop’s environment to the desired conditions (temperature, Ph, humidity and nutrient analysis) . Vertical farming will have a lot of positive consequences among them we can mention : • Creating job opportunities for youth . • Increase crop production . • No more worries about whether ( tornados, flooding, wildfires . . . etc.), or animal danger (such as grasshoppers or boars) • Conservation of land : it is believed that one unit of a vertical farm is equivalent to 20 units in its natural state[2]. [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/opinion/24Despommier.html
- 8. Perfect Education Being a vertical farmer would require some skills, but we don’t have to hold a bachelor or masters to be one, all what we need is skills on farming, and that’s not really difficult to acquire, that’s the most interesting part of it, its about its feasibility . In addition, a company of vertical farming will certainty have a need of electrical engineers (option : renewable energies), Biochemists .
- 9. Perfect Education Universities should offer an education compatible with our future needs, i.e. Training engineers in big amounts in fields such as renewable energies, biochemistry and agronomy. They should offer internships to students as well, in vertical farms where they can see how these work. Holding seminars, conferences, workshops, and doing other different methods of awareness like encouraging youth movements.
- 10. Reference Table Slide 01 : http://ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/the-vertical- farming-scam/ Slide 02 :http://media.economist.com/images/images- magazine/2010/12/11/tq/20101211_tqp001.jpg Slide 05 :http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/vertical-farming-7.jpg Slide 06 : http://www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk/English/environment/planning/Wind%20F arms%20and%20Renewable%20Energy/PublishingImages/wind%20turbine.jpg http://www.hydroponics-gardening- information.com/images/SuperNova%20over%20plants.jpg Slide 07 : http://comerecommended.com/files/2011/09/opportunity_boulevard.gif http://begreen.botw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Moving-on-Up-with- Vertical-Farming-695x465.jpg Slide 08 :http://images.wisegeek.com/electrical-engineer.jpg Slide 09 :http://160.109.101.132/icrhps/images/seminar_icon00.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3661/3334584778_5b5f703da8_z.jpg?zz=1