Keep your ears open for a new batch of What’s for Lunch radio stories about food and climate change on PRI’s The World. The series, part of the Food for 9 Billion project that Homelands Productions is producing with the Center for …
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Sam Eaton
Food for 9 Billion
Vertical Lunch
Sam Eaton
Food for 9 Billion
Vertical Lunch
A new super-efficient vertical farming system is producing greens for Singapore’s 5 million residents. Inventor Jack Ng hopes to increase local food security while helping cut down on the climate impact of food production.
With a footprint of about 65 square feet, each SkyGreens tower is ten times as efficient per unit of land than conventional farming methods. Photo by Sam Eaton. A new super-efficient vertical farming system is producing greens for Singapore’s 5 million residents. Inventor Jack Ng hopes to increase local food security while helping cut down on the climate impact of food production.
A video version of this story aired on PBS NewsHour.
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The Homelands Blog
“What’s for Lunch” launches on The World
For the last year and a half, the “Food for 9 Billion” project has examined the many-sided challenge of keeping ourselves fed at a time of rapid social and environmental change. Yesterday we launched a …