Building a more resilient food system
The impacts of climate change, rising fuel costs, geopolitical conflicts, and global supply chain snags make today's delocalized food system鈥攁nd the 8 billion people who depend on it鈥攊ncreasingly vulnerable.聽
Part of the solution to building a more sustainable and resilient agrifood system is to improve local, indoor food production.聽Researchers in 平特五不中鈥檚 Biomass Production Laboratory are doing just that, increasing access to fresh produce year-round.
鈥淥ur goal as a sustainability effort is to try to return some food productivity back to the local areas,鈥� says Mark Lefsrud, an associate professor of bioresource engineering in 平特五不中鈥檚 Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (AES) and an expert in controlled environment agriculture.
Researchers and students in the Biomass Production Laboratory are working on enhancing controlled environments to make this scale of indoor food production more efficient and to improve the nutritional quality of food produced.
Read about some of their .