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    Current Projects

    UKUAT is an active partner on collaborative projects on both academic and more commercially focussed projects within CEA, agritech, and any adjacent sectors where mutual opportunities exist.

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    Farm Urban Manchester

    Farm Urban Manchester is a new vertical farm that shows how fresh fruit and vegetables could be grown in the future. The project consists of a demonstration farm, located in Manchester, working alongside a larger vertical farm at Farm Urban HQ in Liverpool.

    The project is both scientific and social; carrying out analysis of plant growth, whilst also engaging with people to ensure that local communities decide what crops we should grow, and what activities to hold at the farm. We’re also interacting with wholesalers, growers, suppliers, retailers and chefs, to show how we can grow and use new, year-round produce.

    VF-UKFSR

    University of Surrey, UKUAT, University of Sussex, University of Aberdeen

    The project vision is to provide a co-created Vertical Farming (VF) roadmap for UK government and industry:
    Demonstrating where, when and how VF can increase UK food system resilience​
    Supplying evidence-based strategic options to drive policy change​
    Providing the first critical analysis of the place of VF, alongside field/glasshouse production, to increase resilience of our agriculture landscape.​​

    The transformative potential of this work is that we provide:​
    An interdisciplinary full systems approach to mapping risks​
    A unique spatially-explicit decision-making tool to visualise the deployment of VF to support the UK food system​
    Identification of the technical, environmental, economic and social enablers required for VF expansion, looking beyond food to social benefits and potential land sparing for environmental gains​

    ​True food system resilience requires wider environmental and soietal resilience

    V-FAST Consortium

    UKUAT, Vertegrow, RheEnergise, the James Hutton Institute, LettUs Grow, IGS, Sprung Structures Ltd, IPV FlexGen

    V-FAST is an inter-sector consortium formed to tackle vertical farming’s energy problem. Its membership comprises CEA growers, technology suppliers and plant scientists with a novel form of pumped hydro energy storage. With one funded feasibility study underway, V-FAST continues to look for other opportunities which bring energy and food infrastructure closer together for a more efficient and resilient future in both spheres.