
The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century

major pesticide, as of the summer of 2009.
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a set of highly purified, carefully balanced nutrients will have been dissolved to satisfy the nutritional requirements of the plants.
Dickson Despommier • The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
Today, modern incineration strategies, including plasma arc gasification, are widely accepted for handling most kinds of wastes throughout Europe, and Germany has become a world leader in applying incineration to the safe disposal of both solid and liquid waste streams.
Dickson Despommier • The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
some stress was necessary in order to elicit flavonoids (complex organic molecules specific to plants). These molecules are the essence of why most vegetables have distinctive flavors and aromas.
Dickson Despommier • The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
In addition, there is residue to contend with after the anaerobic digestion process of composting comes to an end.
Dickson Despommier • The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
Deforestation for purposes of freeing up farmland
Dickson Despommier • The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
The process itself uses around six times
Dickson Despommier • The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
The production of ammonium nitrate–based fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides has been the mainstay of companies such as Dow Chemical, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Monsanto, the Mosaic Company, PotashCorp, and Agrium, Inc. The pesticide business is the most widely diversified of the three agrochemical industries. The National Pesticide Infor
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our current food production and distribution system does deliver edible calories to the people at an affordable “price.” But its toll on both the environment and its consumers is astonishing.