Kelly Ward | Can indoor farming bring more sustainability and accessibility to our food systems?

Daniel chats with Kelly Ward, a fellow Columbia University SIPA MPA-DP graduate and expert in the controlled environment agriculture industry. Kelly breaks down the difference between traditional and indoor farming through the lens of technology, efficiency, accessibility, and sustainability. 

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:42 How growing up around traditional farms shaped Kelly's career in improving food systems.
• 2:58 Kelly explains the role of traditional food systems behind GHG emissions.
• 3:40 What are the reasons for shifting from traditional farming to indoor farming?
• 7:07 What are the ecological differences between traditional and indoor farms?
• 9:42 Can indoor farms improve accessibility and affordability in urban food systems?
• 13:06 What exactly is indoor farming? Are we just talking about greenhouses?
• 16:18 Kelly talks about the different types of indoor farming.
• 19:38 Can indoor farms help with the unpredictable nature of climate change?
• 22:16 Kelly addresses the technological and cost barriers to indoor farming.
• 27:50 Are the crop yields all that different between traditional and indoor farms?
• 30:22 What's on the horizon for indoor farming?
• 34:18 Kelly was a primatologist! What?!
• 37:07 Goodbyes