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In the Atacama, distance, water stress, and worker wellbeing turn fresh food into an infrastructure problem. A mine-site vertical farm could help, but only if it’s designed as a reliable service, not a sustainability showcase.

80 Acres Farms just shut down. Here is what a decade of vertical farming collapses actually has in common and the way ahead.

The farm-to-table movement is a food sourcing model that connects restaurants, hotels, and developers directly with local farms, cutting out middlemen to deliver fresher ingredients while supporting local economies and reducing environmental impact. It's reshaping how architects, designers, and hospitality professionals build spaces around food. Source: Illustration generated with AI Written by: …

Egypt's CEA sector faces brutal water, currency, and input constraints. Here is what three operators building through it taught us at Greentech 2026.

On-site food production is becoming a standard feature of green hotel certification, not just a guest-facing design trend, and it's showing up behind the bar as fast as it's showing up in sustainability reports.

Lighting decisions shape your yield, your energy cost per kilogram, and whether your numbers hold up in front of investors.

Jul 13, 2026 GreenTech North America conference taking shape with leading CEA voices Source: GreenTech North America 2026 GreenTech North America is launching a dedicated two-day conference during the Expo on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 September at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. The conference focuses on innovations and developments shaping horticulture across North America…

Jul 8, 2026 When Architects Design the Farm: Why the Growing Operation Comes Before the Building in Controlled Environment Agriculture Source: AgriFlats, by Wheeler Kearns Architects. Architects are increasingly asked to put a working farm inside a building. Rooftop greenhouses, ground-floor grow rooms, glass-wrapped food districts. It is one of the most exciting briefs in the built environment r…

How leading projects across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait are integrating productive landscapes, water reuse, and agriculture into resilient masterplans.

Canada's first food security strategy puts real capital behind greenhouses and vertical farms. Here is what it means before you build, invest, or plan.

Container-grown fodder won't replace hay fields, but when evaluated on a dry matter basis, it can make economic sense where water, freight, and feed security matter most.

The same grow lights, root zones, and climate controls keeping World Cup pitches alive under a roof are the foundation of CEA. Here's what the industry should take from it.

Every year, GreenTech Amsterdam pulls the global CEA industry into one place, and every year, it tells you something new about where we’re heading. Here are four signals from the 2026 edition that I think will define the next decade of growing.

The novel CEA industry faces ongoing critical financial scrutiny following continued high-profile operational failures, revealing essential lessons for investors, developers, and entrepreneurs in vertical farming ventures.

How Rijk Zwaan’s Vietnam case shows that the riskiest bet in emerging market horticulture isn’t the crop , it’s assuming the market already exists.

Jun 3, 2026 Inside GreenTech Amsterdam 2026: An interview with Kim Schotborgh Agritecture recently spoke with Kim Schotborgh from GreenTech Amsterdam about what attendees can expect from this year’s event, where the central theme is PURE: a focus on transparent, responsible, and sustainable cultivation. As the horticulture sector continues to navigate rising energy costs, water scarcity, labor sh…

May 31, 2026 The Agritecture Guide to GreenTech 2026 9 to 11 June 2026. RAI Amsterdam. Visit us anytime at booth #05.557A. GreenTech Amsterdam is the one show on the calendar where the whole horticulture-technology ecosystem actually shows up in the same room. Growers, breeders, suppliers, technologists, investors, retailers, policymakers. 500+exhibitors from 4o+ countries. 80+ knowledge sessions…

May 26, 2026 Shaping the Andromeda Earth Observatory By Agritecture On 23–24 April 2026, the Antarctic Futures Symposium (AAFS) transformed Luxembourg’s Chamber of Commerce into a platform for global dialogue on the future of polar research. Organised by the International Polar Foundation (IPF) in collaboration with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and the House of Sustai…

Agritecture, TSW, Food Forward Lorain, and the City of Lorain at Solidarity Urban Farms in Lorain Ohio, By Agritecture | Urban Agriculture Planning & Strategy

May 14, 2026 Niagara Falls Just Co-Designed Three Urban Farms. Now You Vote. Image from the workshop Written by Agritecture A Saturday that turned a vacant lot into three real possibilities A few weeks ago, the four adjacent parcels at 922–928 Ontario Avenue in Niagara Falls, NY were just vacant land with a promising idea: a cleared, commercially zoned 0.50-acre site could become something more. …