Tag: Education
Africa Needs Its Version Of Vertical Farms To Feed Growing Cities
Vertical farms use high tech lighting and climate controlled buildings to grow crops like leafy greens or herbs indoors while using less water and soil.
Because it's a closed growing system, with controlled evaporation from plants, this farms use 95% less water than traditional farms.
At the same time, most vertical...
The Man Who Saved The Lives of 4 Million Farmers
"In our country people think farmers are from another planet; the way farmers are discussed, as if farmers are not like other human beings," says 65-year-old Subhas Palekar.
"For example," says Palekar, "Prices increase for everything and everyone accepts price rise for everything from toys to petrol, but somehow the...
The Underground World Of Urban Farming In London
Under an anonymous back street in south London lies a vast underground air-raid shelter that has been turned into a pioneering urban farm supplying supermarkets and restaurants in the capital.
The World War II shelter in Clapham, which could protect up to 8,000 people from Nazi German bombs, consists of...
The Urban Farming Pioneer Who Wants To Feed The City’s Soul
For four years after giving up his corporate job which was making him miserable, Bjorn Low spend a happy four years working on organic farms in far-flung places such as Scotland, Spain and Japan.
How could one farm without land? While looking around Singapore, the many green spaces in the...
Urban Farming In Singapore Has Moved Into A New, High-Tech Phase
Urban farms have always been popular with gardeners in Singapore, especially those who volunteer at neighbourhood community gardens.
Urban farming has become more high-tech and, well, urban.
Urban farmers have started growing food in restaurants and taken over unused rooftop carpark spaces to set up garden plots.
The gardening enthusiasts in the...
Students Grow Organic Vegetables In School
Most city schools learn the bit of farming within the four walls of a classroom. Students of Marudhamalai Devasthanam Higher Secondary School, Vadavalli, went a step ahead and created a small organic farm at the school to meet their needs.
Started in June, the students cultivate spinach, tomato, ladies finger,...
A ₹20 (US$0.30) Waste Decomposer Bottle To Solve Crop Residue Problem
Farmers in the Indian state of Punjab are trying to adopt alternatives to avoid the burning of crop stubble that causes heavy smog and health problems not only in the neigbourhood but hundreds of kilometres away. The latest is the use of "waste decomposer" in the fields, prepared by...
India’s Gaffarbhai Qureshi Traveled 19 States and Grew 5200 Varieties of Plants
Gafarbhai Qureshi has collected over 5200 types of plants in his nursery and gives free information and training to farmers and students about these plants, herbs and trees.
His father, a small farmer from Ramdechi of Junagarh district of Gujarat, had four acres of land, a well and 50 plants.
He...
In Washington School Gardens Are No Longer A Rarity
Horace Mann Elementary School has a rooftop garden. After leafy vegetables are planted and cared for, students harvest the crops, chop them up and serve them to more than 400 of their peers for lunch.
Jagodnik’s third-floor classroom, which is filled with seedlings and outfitted with a small kitchen, opens...
Singapore: Learning To Grow Own Food In Urban Setting
Mr Cheng, 30, a co-founder of a creative consultancy, says: "Most of the time, we don't know where our fresh produce is imported from and if it is free from pesticides or chemical fertilisers. I became interested in having more control of what I put on my plate by...