Strawberries in containers, mushrooms in cupboards and herbs on the roofs of skyscrapers.

“Urban Food is a new understanding and, as a result, a movement that develops significant alternatives for our food system,” she writes in Food Report 2020. For the seventh time, a nutrition expert has classified events in the industry.

Accordingly, the megatrend “health” and the requirements for sustainability are compared with the megatrend “urbanization”.

Groceries are not only produced by farmers in rural areas, but are also planned by urban planners and architects from the start.

Also experts of the panel “Foodtropolis. Urban.Circular.Food. ” from the Global Food Summit, which took place last week in Berlin, agree that in the future, food will increasingly be produced in urban areas.

In support of this, they cite arguments such as “independence from weather and climate”, “local production” and “avoiding the use of pesticides” when grown in closed systems can influence the development of urban agriculture.

“The use of new intelligent technologies not only helps to develop useful and sustainable ideas, but also more and more displaces food production in the future, where they are mainly consumed,” Rützler writes in the food report.