future jobs in ireland

" Gazing into our digitally optimised crystal ball, we've speculated on several possible cool job trends that are likely to grow in importance in the next few years." Read more here
....Urban farmer

• Food security is set to remain an enduring preoccupation for years to come against the background of food price inflation and an increasing world population. It's driving a trend to produce far more in smaller and more urban spaces and radical farming format solutions like vertical farming.

Concerns about the future of food supply is boosting the prospects for farming as a promising career — as well as work in hi-tech food and agriscience.

• Futurists envisage farming practised not over wide open plains but in big glass skyscrapers, with layers of crops supported by artificial light.
• Indoor urban agriculture can produce many multiples of outdoor crops per acre it's claimed, with less exposure to pests and disease and natural disasters.
• The Swedes are all over it — they've built Plantagon International, a big vertical farming greenhouse that's low in energy and needs less water and pesticides and delivers fresh organic vegetables. The originators have launched a similar project in Shanghai.
• Sustainable farming methods like aquaponics (sustainable fish and crop farming in water tanks where waste from the fish provides nutrients for the crops and the plants filter the water for the fish) are attracting increasing interest.
• Dublin already has its first urban farm in an old factory in Dublin's city centre, where Urbanfarm.ie grows crops in indoor aquaponic allotments and on its rooftop for local city restaurants.

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