Gilberto Navas-Gomez

• Researcher at Chapingo Autonomous University

Varying conditions of cultivation of vegetables inside a city’s boundaries were analyzed. As such, in the city of Berlin flower boxes with lettuce were installed at 20 spots at different heights, with different light conditions and air pollution levels. In order to exclude heavy metal uptake due to soil contamination, lettuce was seeded in a standa...

The integration of agricultural production systems into urban areas is a challenge for the coming decades. Because of increasing greenhouse gas emission and rising resource consumption as well as costs in animal husbandry, the dietary habits of people in the 21st century have to focus on herbal foods. Intensive plant cultivation systems in large ci...

Over time the human population has become increasingly urban. The proportion of city dwellers increased from 30% in 1950 to 66% in 2015. Due to this concentration of people in densely-built areas, a rethinking of agricultural and horticultural production is needed urgently. While the demand for fresh vegetables and other natural resources such as w...

Growing environmental and sustainability concerns have driven continual modernization of horticultural practices, especially for urban farming. Controlled environment and soilless production methods are increasing in popularity because of their efficient resource use and intensive cropping capabilities. However, some popular substrates used for hyd...