Controlled Environment Lettuce Production: Energy Per Kilogram Against Field Baselines

Authors

  • Iakovos Kallinikou Centre for Controlled Environment Agriculture, Kokkinochoria Institute of Agro-Informatics, Paralimni, Cyprus Author
  • Janina Karpinski-Zab Department of Horticulture, Kujawy Centre for Digital Agriculture, Inowroclaw, Poland Author
  • Frida Jernberg Department of Agricultural Economics, Osterlen Institute of Agro-Informatics, Simrishamn, Sweden Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22664607

Keywords:

Controlled Environment Lettuce Production; Agro-informatics; Precision agriculture; Evidence synthesis; On-farm technology

Abstract

There is real interest in controlled environment lettuce production right now, and real uncertainty about exactly where it delivers
the most value. We pull together the current evidence for controlled environment lettuce production, covering the methodological,
practical, governance and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where farms and advisors are still
largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here
than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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