Field
Agriculture
Horizon
σ Sigma · 2029–2035
Lead center
Living Systems
Maturity
Developing — prototypes scaling toward deployment
Why it matters
It can grow food near cities with a fraction of the land and water and no pesticides, improving food security and cutting transport — a pillar of resilient sustenance.
Where it stands
Commercial vertical farms operate for leafy greens and herbs; energy cost and crop range are the barriers to broader staples.
How ASIZ approaches it
The discovery loop, applied.
Through the Living Systems center, ASIZ aims the discovery loop at vertical farming: frontier models survey the literature and simulate the possibilities, rank the experiments most likely to resolve the open questions, and partner labs run the decisive ones — with results shared openly.