Grow/House: A research paper about the integration of urban farming in a co-housing complex

Research: Transportation of food, meat consumption, land use for agriculture, and food waste significantly impact our environment and climate change. This paper proposes a co-housing community that produces its own food on-site in Amsterdam. A plant-based diet is taken as the basis for crop selection. Different urban farming methods are...

Optimization of LED-based agrivoltaic system: Combining photovoltaic and light emitting diode technology in a horticultural system to improve the space and energy efficiency of crop cultivation

By 2050, the global demand for food and energy is expected to grow by 70% and 50%, respectively, as a result of the increase of the world’s population. To keep up with the growing world population, significant changes have to take place in the agricultural sector regarding land and energy use. In this work, two developments in the agricultural...