AVF Blog

AVF Announces Ÿnsect as First Sponsor at Urban Future Global Conference

We are beyond excited to announce that Ynsect will be sponsoring our event Unlock the Potential of Indoor Farming in Cities of the Future at this year’s Urban Future Global Conference. Ÿnsect (pronounced “Insect”), farms insects to make high-quality, premium natural ingredients for aquaculture and pet nutrition. As of now, Ÿnsect is composed of an

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Per Lysaa, CEO of Norway’s Intravision Group and Committed CityChanger

Per Lysaa and Intravision Group, Scandinavian leaders in CEA research Per Lysaa is CEO of Intravision Group, a photobiology and systems integration company working with new technologies for production of foods and plant-made pharmaceuticals. Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, they also have offices in Toronto, Canada and Shanghai, China. In 2010,

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Urban Future Keynote Speaker

Paul Gauthier is Proving the Potential of Vertical Farming for an Urban Future

AVF announces Paul Gauthier, Associate Research Scholar, Department of Geosciences and the Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, as Keynote Speaker at Urban Future Global Conference Paul Gauthier is a globally-recognised thought leader in the world of vertical farming. In 2017, he launched the Princeton Vertical Farming Project (PVFP), a hub

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Urban Agriculture Speaker

Urban Agriculture: Macro Views and Micro Experience

AVF is pleased to announce Josef Schmidhuber, Deputy Director, Trade and Markets Division, FAO, as a keynote speaker at Urban Future Global Conference “There is a growing recognition that urban agriculture can make an important contribution to better diets at lower resource footprints, enhanced mirco-climates (ambient cooling) and even reduced

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AgroUrbana vertical farm

AgroUrbana’s Plan to Grow the Best Greens in Santiago

South America’s first vertical farm: the idea is to prove a concept When it comes to vertical farming, what are the economics? Is there a market? What is the price premium? Can we prove that the technology actually does what it says? And how do you answer all these questions

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Neon Bloom AgTech Investment

Neon Bloom: the Investment Company the World Needs

Setting a higher standard in AgriTech Investment Neon Bloom is a venture capital firm that focuses on acquiring innovative agriculture and ancillary technology products and services across the globe. With a suite of flagship investments in Holland and one in South Korea, Neon Bloom has made a strong start for

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Puerto Rico Vertical Farm Food Production

Grupo VESAN: A New Future for Food Production in the Caribbean

Ominous weather patterns in Puerto Rico brought droughts in 2015, followed by heavy rains and flooding in 2016. Such is the fluctuating nature of weather in Puerto Rico, where Francisco Santana has traditionally worked as an engineer. Accompanying food shortages exacerbated the situation in a country that already imports 90%

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Interview with Indoor Farming Industry Leader Seven Steps To Heaven

Meet Gertjan and Lianne Meeuws, Founders of Seven Steps To Heaven In the world of indoor farming, you would be hard pressed to find someone with more expertise than Gertjan and Lianne Meeuws, founders of the innovative start-up Seven Steps To Heaven. With decades of experience collecting horticultural data, consulting

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Aquaponics

THORILEX, Ltd. Want to Bring Aquaponic Innovations to the World

From fishermen to commercial scale aquaponic suppliers and beyond THORILEX is a testament to the evolution of food production. With a background in fishing and fish farming, the team came together in 2010 to bring aquaponic farming to the Czech Republic and then the world. Starting out as a consultancy

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