2021 •
Vertical Farming: Under Climate Change Effect
Authors:
A. Teoman Naskali, Ozgun Pinarer, A. Cagri Tolga
Abstract:
The daily life of people is changing due to the increase in climate change effects. In the times of historic Covid-19 pandemic event, by the precautions like stay at home, people tried to obey those cautions. This kind of protections decreased the CO2 gas emissions by 17%, obtaining the world returned to 2006 gas emissions values. The air became more breathable and the nature began to repair itself without the touch of people. As the population grows, feeding this population became a separate problem. People started to destroy forest areas beca (...)
The daily life of people is changing due to the increase in climate change effects. In the times of historic Covid-19 pandemic event, by the precautions like stay at home, people tried to obey those cautions. This kind of protections decreased the CO2 gas emissions by 17%, obtaining the world returned to 2006 gas emissions values. The air became more breathable and the nature began to repair itself without the touch of people. As the population grows, feeding this population became a separate problem. People started to destroy forest areas because more agriculture was needed for more nutrition. Of course, this destruction also had a direct impact on climate change. Humanity once again saw that it had to develop with nature, not against nature. This eye-opening process will force people to act quickly on what needs to be done for climate change. Even though the relatively less emission comes from the agriculture, this sector has to transform itself by new technologies due to its strategical position. Vertical farming alternative is a candidate for this conversion process. Many methods in vertical farming are handled in this chapter. Some cultivation methods as hydroponic, aeroponic and aquaponic systems are dealt also. Energy and water consumption, yield, and scalability criteria are examined for the vertical farming under climate effects. In addition, some newly technologies like artificial intelligence applied to vertical farming are presented in this study. To see the benefit of this agricultural method a feasibility and economic analysis had to be made, so it’s done with real data. Interesting results and inferences have been obtained and presented at the end of the study. (Read More)
Environment and Climate-smart Food Production ·
2021
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