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The future of farming

A new crop of entrepreneurs is prepping the ground to grow food in the desert. Now the competition is hotting up.

  • The Entrepreneurs #7
  • 12 min read
A farmer operates a green tractor with yellow wheels across sandy farmland at Emirates Bio Farm, with trees lining the background.
Technology

Strawberry yields

In a warehouse outside Jersey City, a Japanese-flavoured start-up is growing berries so coveted that people happily pay $50 for a bowlful. Is this vertical farming’s first luxury brand?

  • Issue #155
  • 11 min read
Automated robot moving through rows of strawberry plants in Oishii's vertical farming facility
Urbanism

Key to the city

The world’s urban centres are flourishing once more despite pandemic-related predictions of their demise. Editor in chief Andrew Tuck celebrates our cities’ resilience, vision and innovation, as evidenced in Monocle’s Quality of Life survey.

  • Issue #155
  • 4 min read
Illustration of man reading in chair with dog beside him, overlooking waterfront city with boats and buildings
Urbanism

Room to grow

A new urban farm in Paris is boosting the city’s food supply. And it’s an idea that’s bearing fruit in cities across the world.

  • Issue #138
  • 9 min read
Room to grow
Politics

Europe

How Greenland's prime minister travels and Swedes grow vegetables vertically. Switzerland debates minarets, while Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko's hairstyle holds political power. A look at current European affairs.

  • Issue #28
  • 8 min read
Europe

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