Principal Investigator: Xavier Gabarrell

This research line, Sustainable food systems, arises from the need to give an integrated response to some of the challenges posed in the 2030 Urban Agenda with the objective of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It analyses the potential of urban agriculture and the food chain in making cities more sustainable by exploring the optimization of food, energy, and water right within the urban area. Sostenipra holds an integrated rooftop greenhouse (i-RTG) designed for vertical urban farming purposes (www.fertilecity.com). This is one of the few facilities in the world that allows the exchange of energy, water and CO₂ between the greenhouse and the building. The i-RTG includes two Agrourban labs, each one of 100 m². The first dedicated to the tomatoes production, with a yield of 1.5 tons of tomatoes per year.