Ringvorlesung
Date: 08. Mai 2014, 17:00 – 18:30 h
Referent/in: Dr. Lucie Adenäuer
Inhalt: With rising population and purchasing power, demand for food and changing palate is building pressure on our resources. Vertical Farming, which entails growing food in high-rises, in semi-closed systems, might solve many of these problems. A farm 37 floors high, with 25 for Agriculture, 3 for aquaculture, among others, produces 3,573 tons of fruits and vegetables and 137 tons of tilapia fillets. The system costs € 200 million, requires 80 million litres of water and 3.5 GWh of power per year. It produces 516 times more food than that expected from footprint area of 0.25 ha, due to stacking and multiple harvests. Fruits, vegetables and fish cultivated here, cost on an average between € 3.50 and € 4.00 per kilogram. Considering only resource constrained countries and megacities with per capita income above USD $ 20,000, we estimate a market for 47 farms in the short term and almost 3000 farms in the long term.
Zielgruppe: Studenten
Öffentliche Veranstaltung: Ja
Ort: Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation, Nussallee 1, Raum HS I
Veranstalter: ARTS (Agricultural Sciences and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics)
Ringvorlesung
Date: 08. Mai 2014, 17:00 – 18:30 h
Referent/in: Dr. Lucie Adenäuer
Inhalt: With rising population and purchasing power, demand for food and changing palate is building pressure on our resources. Vertical Farming, which entails growing food in high-rises, in semi-closed systems, might solve many of these problems. A farm 37 floors high, with 25 for Agriculture, 3 for aquaculture, among others, produces 3,573 tons of fruits and vegetables and 137 tons of tilapia fillets. The system costs € 200 million, requires 80 million litres of water and 3.5 GWh of power per year. It produces 516 times more food than that expected from footprint area of 0.25 ha, due to stacking and multiple harvests. Fruits, vegetables and fish cultivated here, cost on an average between € 3.50 and € 4.00 per kilogram. Considering only resource constrained countries and megacities with per capita income above USD $ 20,000, we estimate a market for 47 farms in the short term and almost 3000 farms in the long term.
Zielgruppe: Studenten
Öffentliche Veranstaltung: Ja
Ort: Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation, Nussallee 1, Raum HS I
Veranstalter: ARTS (Agricultural Sciences and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics)