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Resource efficiency and vertical farming: Solutions for a sustainable future?

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All the nutrients are delivered in a water solution - requiring no soil. It uses energy efficient LED lighting, which produces very little heat and allows lights to be very close to the tops of plants - enabling tightly stacked layers. A kilogram of insect protein uses 60 times less energy for an equivalent kilo of beef protein.

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Price and provenance: Does the UK have an appetite for eco-labels on food?

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Moreover, more than half of respondents to the Savanta ComRes survey claimed to be aware that the current food system had negative impacts on climate change, air, water and soil pollution, and that it can drive destructive land-use changes such as deforestation.