Back in the good old days, farming was easy. Throw some seeds in the ground, keep it watered, pray to your preferred deity to spare your crops from pestilence and wait for harvest season.

Food production needs to increase by 70 per cent to feed the nine billion population projected for 2050. Fortunately, the industry is benefiting from some radical thinking. Here are the cutting edge technologies taking farming towards this goal.

Although vertical farms producing leafy greens are receiving most of the press coverage, there are a variety of other crops being being grown and innovative growers are finding these crops to be profitable.

Vertical farming in soft fruit is a sure-fire way to lose money, one of the UK’s foremost fresh produce research organisations has warned.

There are an incredible amount of advantages urban farmers have over conventional agriculture.

As technology becomes an integral part of the agriculture industry, farmers are increasingly moving their growing operations indoors.

Food. What we eat, and how we grow it, will be fundamentally transformed in the next decade.

While the vertical farming sector has raised over $ 1 billion in funding since 2015, the sector faces huge challenges.

Urban areas contain more than half the world’s population and contribute to some 70% of the planet’s energy emissions.

By 2050, more than nine billion people will populate the world. Urban areas will grow, as more people will leave rural regions for opportunities in cities, and urban centers like Pittsburgh will have to support as much as 80 percent of the population.

Aquaponics is a hydroponics system that utilizes aquaculture to grow plants.

Vertical farming is growing quickly.

With the population of the world being the largest it has ever been, the responsibility to feed this ever-growing population is getting harder and harder which is why experts think that vertical farming is the future.

The Taiwanese vertical farming expert ‘YesHealth’ has partnered with Danish food tech company ‘Nordic Harvest’ to create Europe’s largest vertical farm as well as to make it fully automated and also autonomous in regards to the energy it needs for operation.

Indoor vertical farming, where crops are raised in automated stacks, often in or near cities, offers a way to sustainably meet the growing demand for food — if its energy demand can be reduced.

After more than two decades of espousing the benefits of vertical farming around the world, it seems Dr. Dickson Despommier is still every bit as eager to talk about the subject as I am.

On a sunny day last August, Daniel Malechuk opened the door to a 77,000-square-foot warehouse just outside Atlanta.

Vertical farmer and clean energy specialist Tristan Fischer has a plan he believes will transform the future of food production and help the world avoid climate catastrophe