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Eco Factor: Soil-less cultivation system makes growing food easy. The decrease in the amount of land available for cultivating food and the rapid increase in population has tempted designers to think about ways growing food can be made simple,...

Eco Factor: Urban greenhouse aims to bring food production to cities. Presently most of the food that is consumed by the world is grown in villages. Research predicts that by the year 2050, over 80% of the population of the world will start living.

Eco Factor: Skyscraper with a rooftop-based ecosystem. Whenever it comes to vertical farming, people mostly envision high-rise buildings where veggies are grown at different levels. Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter have a different thought to...

Eco Factor: Food factories produce organic vegetables 24 hours a day. With the land available for farming depleting quickly, inventors have started to look toward possibilities that allow farming practices that are not dependent on the climate or..

Eco Factor: Green roof used to grow vegetables for the restaurant below. The Flat, an old Holiday Inn Motor hotel, which was converted into luxury apartments with an attached restaurant three years ago, has gone through a green makeover in the...

Eco Factor: Crop protector powers itself using solar energy. Protecting farmlands from animals using scary objects is a thing of the past, and inventors are using the latest advancements in technology to do the same job in a more refined way. The..

There are quite a few projects across the world that are trying to turn the desert in to farming space both because the remaining planet is struggling to find new land for agriculture and the number of mouths the world needs to feed is growing at a.

The word "farming" conjures up an image of a farmer toiling away on a green landscape to feed the world. However, carbon farming brings about a fresh change to our general perceptions. This kind of farming will produce soil that can store carbon...

The debate has raged on for weeks and while the initial thoughts were that we were heading towards something that was a substantial concept that would feed millions of hungry mouths across the planet, it seems the concept has only lost out with time..

So is vertical farming a fancy concept that would actually never amount to anything substantial or would it actually be the idea that provides the majority of world food five decades from now? That is the question we are looking at and the world is...