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Vertical Farming Offers World a Food Lifeline

Feeding the starving one floor at a time
StrategicFuturist

The Globalis Archipelago, formed by the break away nation of Tasmania just three years ago, has recently announced that its vertical farming communities are generating 200% above expected capacity and are taking steps to ramp up production even further.

Globalis Industries' (a joint venture partnership between the Tasmanian Government and private enterprise) CEO Sophie Barber stated on Thursday 'Our stage three trials have been successful and our current production capacity is now fully booked out by independent nations, as well as NGO's looking to fulfil their food quota programs'.

Asked about the implications of private enterprise once again attempting to control the world's food sources, Barber stated 'We are very different from the giant agribusinesses of the past that have used GM foods to dictate farming practises, whilst simultaneoulsy reducing the variety of food stuffs.  For starters our vertical farms are self contained and rely solely on renewable sources of energy and we do not use GM modified seeds.  We can produce 24 hours a day, seven days a week meaning we have no production down times and our partnership agreements around the world guarantee supply based on agreed % of production quotas, rather than having to meet volume quotas which artifically inflated prices and lead to some countries missing out.  This means when we produce more we can provide more and vice versa.  This puts us well beyond the competitive approach of past food giants.'

Given the pending pressures on food supplies around the world we can only hope that the mooted 500% increase in production capacity from the Globalis Archipelago comes online sooner rather than later. 

 In an interesting move, the Tasmanian Government stated that it intended to partner with other nations to provide its intellectual property on the vertical farming and wave power technology. Chief of Community Development, Flynn Rameses conducted a brief press blog today in which he indicated that the partnering would be well suited to some of the sub-tropical nations likes Denmark, Norway and Sweden, whilst also likely to be attractive to the storm ravaged Spain and Italy.

Oct 12


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  • Nick Resonance
    Oct 12
    Vertical farming.. that's actually a good idea. Not only for the sheer output, but also for the efficient use of space. With a little tinkering, you could have acres of farmland in the downtown core. That would reduce travel time to processing facilities, cutting back on fuel costs as well as potential damage to foodstuffs (such as bruising).
  • Ruud Dirven
    Oct 12
    I claim I invented the name "agricology".
  • jfpickard
    Oct 13
    You claim a lot of things, Ruud! ;) StrategicFuturist, do you know how the Globalis initiative fits in with Tasmania's status as a UN-recognised "pervasive awareness" location? From what my mates in the antipodes have said, I was under the impression it was some kind of eco-panopticon, not a corporate breadbasket. Still, interesting stuff!
  • rtgarden2019
    Nov 08
    really large scale systems can integrate well with cyano bacteria culture for cellulose also. The cyano can use waste water from the agricultural runoff and greywater from the surrounding communities.
  • witey pride
    Jan 12
    what kind of vertical farming do you propose? i heard about keyhole gardens and bag gardens back in 2008. a cheap and sustainable way of growing stapple crops.
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