Vertical Farm Environmental Analysis

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About 38 percent of the world total lands are using by human for agriculture. It seems like not a problem today. As a prediction, the human population will increase up to 8.6 billion for the next 50 years (Despommier, 2014). For this reason, we will need more lands and more nature resources to fulfill our demand of foods. As a prediction, people will need an additional 109 hectares of land for feed all the people (Despommier, 2014). As the population increase, human requires more and more land. This demand of land by the human will eventually wide out other species. On top of that, human only focus more on monoculture agriculture that is the fact leads world to be lack of diversity of plants and animals (Despommier, 2014). Without any alternation …show more content…
More importantly, Vertical farm will have Vertical farm can be described as Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) or in other words Building Integrated Agriculture (BIA) using artificial lighting. All plants will grow inside of the building with high teach that allows crops grow healthy and clean. Most of the Vertical farm concepts are skyscraper glass that allows sun lighting through to each floor (Vertical Farming, 2014) that . The main purpose of Vertical farm is offering a fresher, cheaper, and highly nutritious organic foods for the consumer (Fletcher, 2012). The benefits of Vertical Farms benefits are really easy to see. Vertical farms most likely will be builds in the cities or around cities. It is significantly reduce the coast of transportation need in agriculture business. It will help to decrease among of fossil fuel use in agriculture businesses and also decrease among greenhouse gas release to atmosphere (Fletcher, 2012 & Despommier, 2014). Along the same line, vertical farms do not require a lot of big machineries for harvest (Rifkin, 2011). In 2008, about 13.1 percent of global warning effect are came from agriculture …show more content…
But at the same time, vertical farms also have some downside such as it would take all the market places away from conventional farmers. The trade foods between one county to another might be stop because they are depend on their vertical farms. They do not need other countries to grow crops for them. Moreover, the government of the United States also has passed legislation to help farmers’ incomes. The government can’t abandon the traditional farm and accept this new concept yet. They need to find solution for all the farmers. Lastly, it is true to say that the Vertical farm is the next generation of farming. Vertical farm have a lot of advantages and also help to protect the environment. But this concept is possible to work today because it is a big transition in agriculture. Most of farmers would not agree with this new concept. They tend to stick their tradition farming techniques and they would be replacing by the Vertical farms in the

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