Hydroponics: Should We Think Small?

Nigel Atkinson

Department of Food Chemistry, Teesside University, United Kingdom

Nigel Atkinson, Department of Food Chemistry, Teesside University, United Kingdom.

Keywords: Hydroponics; Aquaponics; Food Production; Nutrition

Abstract

World population is growing, and people are generally becoming more affluent. To deal with these pressures, food production will need to change significantly. Large scale-agriculture and food production with continue to dominate, but the case can be made for local production, not just at town or city level, to scaled down to neighbourhoods and even businesses, other organisations, and even home-based systems. Hydroponics, the growth of plants in soil-less cultures, presents a range of options for such small-scale production.

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