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• The global greenhouse market size is anticipated to reach USD 53.51 billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of 9.9% over the forecast period.
• The rise in food consumption is related to the development of contemporary agricultural practices such as greenhouse farming.
• Consequently, rising population and urbanization, along with a lack of arable land, are driving the use of alternative agricultural practices such as greenhouse farming.
• Greenhouse farming has enormous potential to assist in satisfying the growing population demands witnessed in several nations such as China and India.

• At the current rate, this warming will most likely climb to 2°C before 2100, causing climate disruption around the world.
• This article is part of La Conversation Canada’s series The boreal forest: A thousand secrets, a thousand dangers La Conversation Canada invites you to take a virtual walk in the heart of the boreal forest.
• We are working within the research infrastructure Carbone boréal carbon offset program to try to answer this question.

From global to local

• This area is roughly the equivalent of half of the area of Québec’s Île d'Orléans, or a little less than a quarter of the island of Montréal.
• But what happens on a smaller scale, depending on local characteristics and the tree species actually present in the stands?
• These are the kinds of questions that motivated a team of UQAC researchers to launch the Carbone boréal project in 2008.

An original infrastructure

• This characteristic qualifies them as non-forests, according to the definition of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
• Because of a lack of seeds and degraded soil conditions, these non-forests do not re-densify over time.
• Carbone boréal is a research infrastructure that is unique in the world for its objectives, approach and funding.


After 15 years of research and over 1.5 million trees planted and verified, these three hypotheses have been proven and the plantings carried out are beginning to answer new research questions.

Questions and answers

• We also demonstrated the importance of site selection in optimizing carbon sequestration and developed new equations to assess tree biomass using non-destructive measurements.
• Further work is underway to quantify soil carbon loss from scarification and net additional carbon accumulation over 20 years.
• A key concern raised by climate models is how afforestation in the boreal zone actually affects the climate.
• Our team will tackle these questions in the winter of 2023.

• The Airocide™ proprietary technology eliminates airborne pathogens including bacteria, viruses, pollen, mold, yeast, allergens, VOCs, and odors and is known globally for its ability to remove ethylene by utilizing Photo-catalytic Oxidation.
• It is currently used extensively in the post-harvest food preservation supply-chain with global end users such as Delmonte, Whole Foods and Esmerelda Farms to name a few.
• The opportunity to address this global post-harvest problem is at the very core of our values, improving societal outcomes.
• Moreover, a staggering 31.15% of all fruits and vegetables are lost globally due to high perishability and a lack of adequate intervention strategies.

• Pattern Ag built the world’s largest soil-focused metagenomics database, at greater than 43 Terabases
  EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pattern Ag operates the world’s largest metagenomics database, leveraging soil data from more than 43 Terabases.
• This database is larger and more significant than the publicly available Tara Oceans database – a multinational academic partnership that took five years to build – and Pattern Ag continues adding to its own database.
• “The scale of the Pattern Ag database is critical because it unlocks new computational solutions in agriculture,” Rob Hranac, Pattern Ag CEO, said.
• Companies that use insights garnered from the Pattern Ag metagenomics database will help commercialize innovative solutions to sustainably increase food production.