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What do you guys think of vertical farming?
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With drought being more common than ever and increasingly so, I believe vertical farming is necessary. It's much more water efficient than open fields. Also, we need more forest instead of fields to keep a sustainable biodiversity.
However, currently it's only possible for certain kinds of plants to grow in vertical farms.
Another interesting developing method is agrivoltiac farming. We're going to see more of that sooner than vertical farming.
I agree agrivoltaic farming is much more easy to implement for farmers, and although droughts and such will be more common I think the main appeal is what you said freeing up space for nature to reclaim.
Geography, geography, geography. It completely depends on where you live. Remember, climate change doesn’t just mean hot and dry. Some places will get dry, some will get wet. There will be winners and losers.