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Benefits of indoor/vertical farming:
- Crops from indoor framing are grown in three dimensions rather
than two, meaning that it takes up a lot less room compared to
field farming.
- Crops from indoor/vertical farming can be grown all year, not
depending on weather conditions.
- The farms are living biosystems meaning that the environment
can change to whatever the crop needs, to be able to grow.
- Indoor/vertical farming uses less water as you can recycle the
water and it produces less emissions than field farming.
- Crops don't need many pesticides and fertilizers to grow. This is
better for the environment as there is a much smaller risk of
chemical contamination in water from run-off and it is also
better for human health.
- In the future, indoor/vertical farming will be a lot more
accessible, affordable and necessary with a growing population.
- Indoor/vertical farming reduces the risk of exposure for the
crops to harsh climate conditions.

Benefits of local, national and

global indoor/vertical farming:
LOCAL: NATIONAL: GLOBAL:
- Parts of an nation would be
Larger indoor/vertical - Helps provide a lot of food for
able to grow crops that they
farms would be able to a growing global population
never would have been able to
provide whole local - Helps reduce the emissions
grow before because of climate
communities with fresh and environmental issues that
and land difficulties.
crops and produce instead are leading to a global climate
- Nations wouldn't have to
of getting them from change crisis by using less water
import as many crops into the
further away countries or and not using pesticides and
country to supply the growing
cities. hardly any fertilizers.
population.

DID YOU KNOW?

- That in 2018 field farming accounted for 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions.
- Global food production will need to be increased by 70% in the next
30 years (by 2050) for the growing population of the world. This will be
helped majorly by indoor/vertical farming.