RE: BBC business section vertical farming2 Mar 2021 09:29
The vertical faming concept has been around since the early 2000s. It's the future. It has to be. By 2050, 70% of the world's population will live in cities. Given that the population will grow to about ten billion, that means the equivalent of today's entire world population living in cities. If cities are not run in a sustainable manner, then human society is not sustainable and we haven't a hope. Vertical farms are one part of a range of solutions that can help to achieve this.
However, it's a very young industry and it remains to be seen how quickly the authorities, and business, will adopt vertical farming. It needs to be right now. But if the world's reaction to CO2 emissions is anything to go by, it may not be as rapid as is needed. Nonetheless, there are few players in the market, and if it turns out that ifph are indeed the RTO target (and we don't know this), they seem to me to be a great bunch of people with all the right skills. We could be in at the start of something huge.