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    Vertical farms are failing – what we can learn from their mistakes | Nicholas Varas | TEDxOshawa

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    This talk delves into the recent failures of vertical farming ventures like AppHarvest and Fifth Season, identifying the pivotal missteps in economic sustainability and technological promises. It reiterates the crucial roles of innovation, education, and collaboration, moving beyond greenwashing towards a realistic integration of indoor farming, robotics, and AI. Offering a strategy to rectify past errors, it sets a vision for a resilient, efficient, and truly sustainable agricultural future, emphasizing a realistic, inclusive approach to overcoming the challenges highlighted by these failures.

    Nicholas Varas is a Mechatronics Engineering graduate research student at Ontario Tech University and the Chief Executive Officer of Moduleaf. With an ever-growing vision to develop a universal platform for food security, he is at the forefront of revolutionizing the farming industry. He combines his academic and technical expertise in robotics with a profound commitment to sustainable farming, ultimately leveraging cutting-edge technologies to enhance the efficiency of agricultural practices worldwide.

    This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

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