Abstract Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) applications, such as vertical farms and
plant factories, have the potential to shift food production to be close to urban centers …

This paper discusses the emerging need for vertical farms by examining issues related to
food security, urban population growth, farmland shortages,“food miles”, and associated …

Well-designed and supported innovation niches may facilitate transitions towards
sustainable agricultural futures, which may follow different approaches and paradigms such …

The increasing demand for food, the lack of natural resources and arable land, and the
recent restrictions on energy consumption require an immediate solution in terms of …

Emerging problems of food security, urbanisation, farmland shortages, food miles increased
greenhouse gas emissions focuses on the need for vertical farming. An increasing global …

Urban agriculture is of increasing interest for tackling a range of environmental and social
issues of the current food systems. However, many questions remain unanswered regarding …

Trade-offs in ecosystem services (ES) is increasingly becoming a pressing issue in
sustainability science, to deal with supply constraints of landscape and divergence in …

CONTEXT Controlled environment agriculture (CEA), as vertical farms or plant factories, is a
promising technology to intensify food production in an ecologically friendly manner. CEA's …

Evolution of agriculture and the attendant increase in food production has increased the
world human population from 2 to 20 Million (M) about 8000 BCE to 8 Billion (B) in 2022 …

A debate has emerged over the potential socio-ecological drivers of wildlife-origin zoonotic
disease outbreaks and emerging infectious disease (EID) events. This Review explores the …