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What is meant by vertical farming?
Why is vertical farming needed?
What are the main problems with indoor farming?
How will vertical farming offer urban renewal and a sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply?
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Dr. Dickson Despommier spent thirty eight years as a professor of microbiology and public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia. His work on vertical farms has been featured on such top national media as BBC, French National television, CNN, The Colbert Report, and The Tonight Show, as well as in full-length articles in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Scientific American, and The Washington Post
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What is the principle of ‘benign neglect’?
In the long term, will vertical farming eventually repair the ecosystems that have been sacrificed for horizontal farming?
What are the social benefits of vertical farming?
Will vertical farming replace most of the world’s traditional food production schemes?
These questions answered by:
Dr. Dickson Despommier spent thirty eight years as a professor of microbiology and public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia. His work on vertical farms has been featured on such top national media as BBC, French National television, CNN, The Colbert Report, and The Tonight Show, as well as in full-length articles in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Scientific American, and The Washington Post
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How can vertical farms be more water efficient if developed at mass-scale?
What are hydroponic farming, aeroponics and evapotranspiration and which system would be best suited to vertical farming?
How can efficient use of water in farming become widespread worldwide?
How can drought stricken areas be revitalized by vertical farming?
These questions answered by:
Dr. Dickson Despommier spent thirty eight years as a professor of microbiology and public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia. His work on vertical farms has been featured on such top national media as BBC, French National television, CNN, The Colbert Report, and The Tonight Show, as well as in full-length articles in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Scientific American, and The Washington Post
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Does encroachment due to farming have a negative effect on the ecosystem?
How does overgrazing affect the vegetative composition of the ecosystem?
What are the main strategies other than vertical farming to abate urban encroachment onto agricultural lands?
These questions answered by:
Dr. Dickson Despommier spent thirty eight years as a professor of microbiology and public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia. His work on vertical farms has been featured on such top national media as BBC, French National television, CNN, The Colbert Report, and The Tonight Show, as well as in full-length articles in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Scientific American, and The Washington Post
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What is the importance of pathogens and parasites in the evolution and ecology of natural systems?
How do these diseases completely transform the ecosystems that feed and provide for us?
What does effective control and understanding of diseases require?
What are the most commonly adopted strategies to reduce pathogen transmission or to eradicate pathogens from populations altogether?
These questions answered by:
Dr. Dickson Despommier spent thirty eight years as a professor of microbiology and public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia. His work on vertical farms has been featured on such top national media as BBC, French National television, CNN, The Colbert Report, and The Tonight Show, as well as in full-length articles in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Scientific American, and The Washington Post
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What role will a better understanding of parasitology have on eliminating disease?
What are nematodes, cestodes and trematodes?
What is the impact of human parasitism in North America?
What are the life cycles of the major protozoan and helminthic parasites that infect man?
These questions answered by:
Dr. Dickson Despommier spent thirty eight years as a professor of microbiology and public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia. His work on vertical farms has been featured on such top national media as BBC, French National television, CNN, The Colbert Report, and The Tonight Show, as well as in full-length articles in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Scientific American, and The Washington Post