FarmTech Society Update 2024🌱
Fifth Annual General Meeting — served as an excellent opportunity for our members to connect, discuss ideas and build new relationships. Two new executive board members, Stefanie Linzer & Rick…
Overshoot Day – CEA & the Power Of Possibility
So here we are once again. Today is 2022 Earth Overshoot Day - “the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year”…
Profit is important, but purpose is the point
The point of policy is to define (systemic) purpose. Without this, the risk is that profit will become the primary (or even sole) purpose. And whilst profit is important, it's…
Europe’s CEA Landscape
Controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) has been mushrooming globally over the past two decades, in several forms and for various purposes. Europe represents one of the most diverse and vibrant communities of…
What is CEA & What Can it Offer for Our Future?
FarmTech Society has published its official policy document on what Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) is and how it can contribute to meeting critical challenges, towards enhanced, economic, social and environmental…
Pro Biodiversity – Complementing Conventional and Agro-Ecological Farming with Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA)
FarmTech Society and Future Food Institute for Biodiversity - Virtual Roundtable Panel Discussion 21st May 2021 | 14:30 - 16:00 Register here Biodiversity is important because it is an essential…
FarmTech Society—SDGs in sight!
The FarmTech Society supports the Sustainable Development Goals FarmTech Society (FTS) is committed to working on finding solutions towards multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) actors are…
SMARTER RULES FOR SAFER FOOD AND PLANT HEALTH
https://youtu.be/VVnLI74RfMo To present these new rules and celebrate 40 years of RASFF, the Commission organized and hosted, with the support of the Finnish Presidency, this milestone conference “Smarter rules for…
FTS EU Policy Development Update
In the newly released report by the European Environment Agency, they specifically single out CEA as a positive impact on biodiversity and overall ecosystem service, simply because a circular CEA…