TY - GEN
T1 - Assessing the Benefits and Perceptions of Indoor Farming in Hot Climates
AU - Attoye, Daniel
AU - Tabet Aoul, Kheira
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - The human population will reach 8.5 billion by 2023, increasing demand for depleting resources such as food, energy, and water by 35%, 50%, and 40%, respectively. Therefore, there is an urgent need to promote new strategies that can ensure food security. Although indoor farming is potentially an innovative solution to the above scenario, there is insufficient information in the literature specifically related to stakeholder perception to guide its adoption effectively. This paper reports on an ongoing study that aims to assess the benefits of indoor farming in the hot climate context and assess stakeholders’ perceptions of this innovation. A literature review and focus group with building occupants to assess their perception of indoor farming were conducted to address the aim. The results identified critical factors such as design, psychological and operational considerations. These results were used to create a unique set of guidelines to direct future research into the design of an indoor farming prototype that has the potential to advance the security of food production. The findings of this study will thus, benefit researchers and other stakeholders working towards an integrated sustainable society.
AB - The human population will reach 8.5 billion by 2023, increasing demand for depleting resources such as food, energy, and water by 35%, 50%, and 40%, respectively. Therefore, there is an urgent need to promote new strategies that can ensure food security. Although indoor farming is potentially an innovative solution to the above scenario, there is insufficient information in the literature specifically related to stakeholder perception to guide its adoption effectively. This paper reports on an ongoing study that aims to assess the benefits of indoor farming in the hot climate context and assess stakeholders’ perceptions of this innovation. A literature review and focus group with building occupants to assess their perception of indoor farming were conducted to address the aim. The results identified critical factors such as design, psychological and operational considerations. These results were used to create a unique set of guidelines to direct future research into the design of an indoor farming prototype that has the potential to advance the security of food production. The findings of this study will thus, benefit researchers and other stakeholders working towards an integrated sustainable society.
KW - Benefits
KW - Indoor farming
KW - Perception
KW - Stakeholders
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-97-8348-9_57
DO - 10.1007/978-981-97-8348-9_57
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85209550316
SN - 9789819783472
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 466
EP - 474
BT - Proceedings of the ICSDI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability
A2 - Mansour, Yasser
A2 - Abdelhadi, Abdelhakim
A2 - Subramaniam, Umashankar
A2 - Mustaffa, Zahiraniza
A2 - Al-Atroush, Mohamed
A2 - Abowardah, Eman
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Sustainability: Developments and Innovations, ICSDI 2024
Y2 - 18 February 2024 through 22 February 2024
ER -
