Urban Farming is one of the 100 fastest growing professions of the future and half of that is not or not really threatened by robots or artificial intelligence.
Ben Rogmans, partner of the labor market analysis agency Intelligence Group (IG!) which created the list: "Half of the hundred fastest growing professions of the future are and remain for people".
The Belgian start-up Peas&Love has various urban farms, including one in Brussels and in Paris. "It is our intention to make cities greener and meanwhile create communities. This is what we consider urban farming", Vilt quotes.
Bio-engineer Frank Nevens (UGent) confirms this. "Urban farming is not just about how much we can produce, because we cannot compete with the capacity of normal agriculture with production within city borders. But urban farming has a social and educational purpose: it is good to make people aware where food is coming from and how much effort it takes to cultivate vegetables."
Source: Het Nieuwsblad, Vilt