ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Vertical Farming, Packing House, Zucchini
21 Mar 2017
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Lecture 10 food production & global change. The production of plants and animals within a skyscraper of a greenhouse: typically plants, urban environment in a large-scale. Can be seen in detroit, big urban farming movement there. Also seen in communities sharing agriculture programs: ex. Cities need food so cities could produce food: using farm land around them. Vertical farming uses: less water, little to (cid:374)o pesti(cid:272)ides as they"re isolated for the most part, produces no agricultural runoff. Increase yields for area: for every 1 acre of indoor vertical farming, we can increase yields as much as 20 outdoor horizontal acres would produce, gives us opportunity to use these unused acres outside and regenerate. Distribution gifts, exchange, feasts, festivals, markets. Farmers being more efficient with their fertilizer, water but so much food is being. If that much food is being wasted, how much of it is still good? wasted and not eaten. Wasti(cid:374)g 1/3 of the (cid:449)orld"s food supply.
