8 — Press & Impact — Hero — Recognition
Press & Impact — Recognition, Research & Results

The Results Speak.
The Recognition Follows.

Vertical Green Farming's work has been recognized by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, nominated for leading European agri-innovation programs, and validated by field studies across three continents. Here is what the evidence shows.

Recognition & Awards

Recognized By Those Who Know.

FAO Global Agroinno Challenge

Third place — China. Recognized by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization for innovation in sustainable food systems and climate-resilient agriculture.

FAO Award
DLG Impulse Pitches

Honorable Mention 2024 — Farming, Feed & Food category. One of Europe's most respected agri-innovation recognition programs.

DLG Award
Enertic Awards

Smart Sustainability Category Winner — recognizing our energy efficiency architecture and the documented 64% electricity reduction achieved by GreenShelter systems versus conventional container farms.

Enertic Award
FoodTech 500

Listed among the world's most innovative food technology companies — the definitive global index of foodtech leadership.

FoodTech 500
RETECH 2025 Finalist

Madrid, Spain — selected as a finalist at RETECH 2025, recognizing innovation in sustainable urban development and real estate technology.

RETECH 2025
SUAVE Euroclusters 2024

Pioneering European urban agriculture — recognized as part of the SUAVE Euroclusters initiative for leadership in sustainable urban food production.

SUAVE Euroclusters
Research Partnerships

Where Science Meets the Field.

Our work is grounded in active research collaborations with leading academic and scientific institutions across Europe, Canada, and Latin America — ensuring that every protocol we deploy is supported by peer-reviewed science and continuous empirical refinement.

We participate in European research projects alongside major universities, bridging the gap between laboratory science and commercial growing operations. Our academic partnerships span plant physiology, microbiome science, living soil systems, controlled environment agriculture, native seed conservation, ecosystem restoration, and any discipline that contributes to returning land to what it was always meant to be.

We are particularly interested in collaborative research around native seed banks, heritage variety preservation, and land restoration methodologies — the science of recovery, not just production. If your institution is working in these areas, we want to hear from you.

We also offer our full farm system hardware — GreenShelter growing systems, bio-active substrate platforms, and precision sensing equipment — to academic institutions at a significantly discounted rate. We believe that hands-on access to production-grade technology is one of the most effective ways to foster the next generation of agricultural scientists, agronomists, and food system designers. If your faculty or research programme could benefit from working with real systems in a live growing environment, get in touch and let's build something together →

8 — Press & Impact — Research
Research Partnerships — Science Meets the Field
In the Press

What Others Are Saying.

A curated archive of media mentions from the legacy Vertical Green Farming press page, organized by coverage theme and prioritized around outbound links that were live when checked.

Category 01

Video Features

Broadcast and partner video coverage embedded on the original press archive.

Agro-TV: Cultivo de 6.000 lechugas en espacios reducidos

Video feature on high-density lettuce production in compact growing spaces.

YouTube
Telefónica Tech: Vertical Green Farming, soluciones contra el cambio climático

Telefónica Tech video framing Vertical Green Farming's approach as a climate-change response.

YouTube
Vertical Green Farming and Telefónica digitize agricultural production in Spain

Video coverage of the Telefónica collaboration and digitized agricultural production.

YouTube
Telefónica: Cultivo vertical, reinventar la agricultura

Telefónica video on vertical cultivation and rethinking agricultural production.

YouTube
Category 02

Telefónica & IoT

Coverage of the cloud-connected, sensorized vertical agriculture solution developed with Telefónica.

Telefónica y Vertical Green Farming digitalizan la producción agrícola en España

Telefónica's Spanish press room covers the IoT sensorization, remote crop control, RHPA system, Onubafruit pilot, and UPM industrial doctorate.

Telefónica
Telefónica and Vertical Green Farming digitise agricultural production in Spain

English-language Telefónica announcement describing the high-tech vertical agriculture solution and its deployment with Onubafruit.

Telefónica
Telefónica and Vertical Green Farming digitise agricultural production in Spain

TelecomTV republishes the Telefónica industry announcement for a telecom and digital infrastructure audience.

TelecomTV
Agricultura ecológica y sostenible gracias a la digitalización

Redes&Telecom frames the project around precision IoT, machine learning, connectivity, and remote management for sustainable agriculture.

Redes&Telecom
Telefónica y Vertical Green Farming digitalizan la producción agrícola en España

enerTIC republishes the Telefónica partnership announcement for its smart sustainability audience.

enerTIC
Category 03

Profiles & Interviews

Founder, company, and technology profiles explaining the Green Shelter concept and aeroponic vertical farming model.

Vertical Green Farming. Tecnología para los granjeros de Marte

Emprendedores profiles the autonomous container farms, soil-free aeroponic growing, founders, and proximity production angle.

Emprendedores
Cultivo vertical por aeroponía

Horizonte A Digital features Hugo Scagnetti and the Vertical Green Farming aeroponic system, including production density and sustainability themes.

Horizonte A Digital
Vertical Green Farming: los contenedores de cultivo aeropónico verticales autónomos

Paperblog mirrors coverage of the autonomous aeroponic growing containers from the legacy press archive.

Paperblog
Vertical Green Farming: los contenedores de cultivo aeropónico verticales autónomos

Alternativas News republishes the autonomous aeroponic container story from the legacy press archive.

Alternativas News
Category 04

Onubafruit Pilot

Articles focused on the strawberry pilot in Huelva, the 90 m2 production comparison, and resource efficiency.

Onubafruit prueba la tecnología de cultivo indoor de Vertical Green Farming

FruitToday reports on Asaja-Huelva's visit to the Onubafruit experimental site and the Vertical Green Farming indoor cultivation system.

FruitToday
Asaja-Huelva conoce la primera instalación de la planta de producción

Agrodiario Huelva covers the visit to Vertical Green Farming's first production installation in Lepe.

Agrodiario Huelva
Producir más cantidad de fresas con menos recursos mediante el cultivo en vertical

ABC Agrónoma covers the Onubafruit pilot, high-density strawberry production, RHPA, and the 95% water reduction claim.

ABC Agrónoma
Tecnología para el cultivo de fresas en vertical

Diario de Sevilla covers Vertical Green Farming's 2.0 strawberry cultivation technology and the Onubafruit deployment.

Diario de Sevilla
Tecnología 2.0 para el cultivo de fresas en vertical

Agroempresario details the pilot process, IoT parameters, and the goal of improving strawberry quality, supply, efficiency, and sustainability.

Agroempresario
Sur 90 m2, nous pouvons produire la même quantité de fraises que sur un hectare

Hortimedia brings the Onubafruit and Vertical Green Farming pilot story to a French-language agronomy audience.

Hortimedia
En 90 m2 podemos producir la misma cantidad de fresas que en una hectárea

Revista Mercados focuses on the 90 m2 versus one-hectare production comparison for the strawberry pilot.

Revista Mercados
Telefónica irrumpe en la agricultura: cultivo de fresas en Huelva

El Mundo places the Vertical Green Farming and Telefónica project in the wider business context of agricultural digitization.

El Mundo
For Press & Media

Press & Media Inquiries.

We welcome press inquiries, interview requests, and media partnership conversations. Our team is available to speak on:

  • —Bio-Mimetic CEA™ and the science of biological farming intelligence
  • —The state of the premium specialty produce market
  • —Food security and sustainable agriculture in arid and climate-challenged regions
  • —Propagation and ecosystem restoration at scale
  • —The farmer-led model and the future of agricultural knowledge transfer

Press contact: hello@verticalgreenfarming.com

Media kit: Available on request — includes company overview, founder bios, product imagery, and documented research data.

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