Written by Thomas Wittenburg, 31. august 2010

Rob Nail associate founder of Singularity University talks about food for cities. The mission for Singularity University is to assemble and inspire leaders and leading technologists and help them understand and facilitate the enormous development in technology, and help them to use these leaps in technology to solve humanitys problems.

The Food in Cities project, which Rob leads, just finished a 10 week cycle. The goal was to make something, that would impact a billion people. In the next 50 years the Earths population will reach almost 10 billion people, and new landmass the size of Brazil will be needed for agriculture.
The team made a concept called Agropolis:

Local food production is key to feeding cities, that in the future will grow even larger. Hydroponics and vertical farming could be the NEXT big thing in agriculture.

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