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Develop, validate and scale agricultural research into deployable solutions

Partner with Crop Urbanis from hypothesis and lab trials through pilot validation and commercial de-risking.

Filter the research catalogue to surface projects, review objectives and select collaboration pathways that convert studies into operational outcomes.

The projects listed below are active and planned research initiatives led by City Crop to develop, validate and translate agritech innovations into deployable solutions.

If a project interests you and you’d like to collaborate, contact us to discuss partnership formats, pilot funding and next steps.

  • AI research center in open- and protected-field agriculture

    Evidence-driven AI for fields and greenhouses.

    An applied research center that tests, benchmarks, and deploys computer vision, sensing, and robotics across open fields and greenhouses. Generating validated datasets, agronomic ground truth, and pilot results that de-risk AI for growers and suppliers.

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    AI research center in open- and protected-field agriculture
  • "Cultured Fruit" — edible fruits from plant cells

    Fruit built from plant cells, not orchards.

    Growing edible fruits directly from plant cells by inducing flowering and fruiting without trees. The goal: consistent flavor and nutrition with lower land use, contingent on sustainable sugar inputs and a clear regulatory path.

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    "Cultured Fruit" — edible fruits from plant cells
  • Implementation and adaptation of AI products for agricultural companies

    From AI promise to farm-ready performance.

    Selecting high-value farm use cases, adapting AI to your crops and hardware, and validating performance in the field or greenhouse, then operationalising with MLOps, training, and ROI models for confident scale-up.

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    Implementation and adaptation of AI products for agricultural companies
  • Personalised vegetable nutrition

    Grow vegetables matched to your nutritional profile.

    A home CEA system and app that grows vegetables aligned to your dietary goals by tuning cultivar and recipe variables, backed by lab-verified nutrition data and optional clinical partnerships for specific patient populations.

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    Personalised vegetable nutrition
  • Autonomous farms for remote islands

    Reliable fresh produce where logistics are hardest.

    Containerised, automated greenhouses for islands. Powered by microgrids, optimised for water and labour, and validated with transparent cost and reliability models so communities can replace fragile imports with steady local production.

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    Autonomous farms for remote islands
  • Growing plants without light

    Feeding plants with no photons.

    Testing plant systems that grow on external carbon—potentially from renewable-powered electrochemistry—so biomass formation does not depend on light. Researching energy efficiency, composition, and safety to identify niches where "no-light" cultivation makes sense.

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    Growing plants without light
  • Hydroponic cotton in Europe

    Premium cotton grown hydroponically for traceable, ethical luxury textiles.

    Growing traceable, high-quality cotton in closed hydroponic systems and delivering a fully audited supply chain to French and Italian luxury mills—reducing water use and guaranteeing ethical labour while producing fibres suited to premium fabrics.

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    Hydroponic cotton in Europe
  • Vertical-farm cereals and high-protein aquatic crops

    Growing staple cereals and ultra-high-protein aquatic crops indoors for resilient, local supply.

    Adapting vertical farming to produce wheat, rye and ultra-high-protein Wolffia at commercial pilot scale—optimising growth cycles, harvest systems, and processing pathways so urban food systems can access local grain and novel proteins with predictable quality.

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    Vertical-farm cereals and high-protein aquatic crops