The food supply for the world's population is in need of some radical changes. Due to a rise in the world's population, increasing urbanisation and climate change, there is a need to come up with innovative solutions when it comes to the food supply. The project group in FARMING from the German Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT and their project partners are currently working on the possibilities of taking control of this issue. The idea is old: growing vegetables in the city. Although, instead of cultivating derelict areas, inFARMING wants to go up...onto the city roofs.
The idea is to build on the rooftops of heavily populated areas. This would make it not only resource saving and space-efficient, but would make vegetable production possible. inFARMING, along with its partners, has built a test greenhouse in Duisburg on the roof of the Fraunhofer inHaus-Centre. Cooperating partner BrightFarms Inc. from the US already runs several of these greenhouses on rooftops.