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Abstract

With increasing temperatures and an escalation in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, agricultural productivity remains at risk of being compromised. With the food security of millions threatened, there remains a need to develop alternative, sustainable production models which can thrive in the face of climate change. Advances in plant factories: New technologies in indoor vertical farming reviews the wealth of research on optimising plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs) as one potential solution to achieving a more sustainable agriculture. The book addresses developments in process monitoring, optimising energy use, as well as adjusting lighting conditions to improve the sensory and nutritional quality of a range of horticultural crops.

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Emeritus Professor Toyoki Kozai:

Bio :

Dr Toyoki Kozai is the former President of Chiba University, Japan, where he is now an Emeritus Professor. Professor Kozai is also the Honorary President of the Japan Plant Factory Association (JPFA) and a former President of The Agricultural Academy of Japan. As a pioneer of indoor plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs), also referred to as indoor vertical farming, Professor Kozai is widely regarded as one of the founding figures in PFALs, and vertical farming. He has edited a number of books on PFALs and is the author of over 300 publications on controlled environment agriculture technologies.

Dr Eri Hayashi:

Bio :

Dr Eri Hayashi is the President of the JPFA, where she is also the Director of International Relations and Consulting. Eri was Research Project Leader for a national project on Artificial Intelligence- and Phenotyping-based Smart Plant Factories with Artificial Lighting (PFALs). She leads a number of international projects on technology development, has given presentations at a number of international conferences, and has written widely on the topic of smart plant factories. She was a co-convener of the Symposium of Advances in Vertical Farming at the 31st International Horticultural Congress (IHC 2022). She led the JPFA in organizing the first JPFA International Symposium on Plant Factory (ISPF 2023) at Kashiwanoha, Japan.

Professor Leo F. M. Marcelis:

Bio :

Professor Marcelis is Head of the Horticulture and Product Physiology Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. The Group is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading university centres of expertise on greenhouse cultivation and vertical farming. Professor Marcelis is an internationally-recognised authority on the use of light in greenhouse and other protected systems to optimise crop production.

Dr Francis Baumont De Oliviera:

Bio :

Francis Baumont de Oliveira is a PhD Researcher in the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty at the University of Liverpool, UK. Francis has worked with several vertical farming companies as a farm hand and interviewed dozens of operators, gathering experience to build his research from a practical perspective. As a result, he has published 7 refereed papers about indoor vertical farming. He has also developed an open-source software to compare business strategies and assess risk for entrepreneurs and investors in the sector.

Book

ISBN (Print): 9781801463164

ISBN (Electronic): 9781801463171

ISBN (Electronic): 9781801463188

Publication date: 29 August 2023

Affiliations

[1 ]Japan Plant Factory Association (Japan)

[2 ]Chiba University/Japan Plant Factory Association

[3 ]Vice President - Japan Plant Factory Association

[4 ]Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands)

[5 ]Wageningen University

[6 ]Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands)

[7 ]IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute (Sweden)

[8 ]KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)

[9 ]DISTAL – University of Bologna (Italy)

[10 ]University of Bologna

[11 ]Cornell University

[12 ]Osaka Metropolitan University

[13 ]CAAS

[14 ]Chiba University

[15 ]University of Liverpool (United Kingdom)

[16 ]University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)

[17 ]Infarm - Indoor Urban Farming B.V.

[18 ]Infarm

[19 ]Oishii Farm

[20 ]808 Factory

[21 ]Shinnippou Ltd.

[22 ]Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS)

[23 ]The James Hutton Institute

DOI: 10.19103/AS.2023.0126

SO-VID: 172b03c2-5d1f-4d54-9f68-ad7c087e6bcc

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Keywords: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture,TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science,TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture,Commercial horticulture,Sustainable agriculture,Agricultural science,Agronomy and crop production,Horticulture,Sustainable agriculture,Agricultural science,Agronomy & crop production

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