Partner with Crop Urbanis from hypothesis and lab trials through pilot validation and commercial de-risking.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Researching how local hydroponic production can serve a growing tourism market while reducing dependence on imported vegetables.
Crop Urbanis is researching the technical and commercial feasibility of developing a profitable hydroponic farm in Cabo Verde. The project responds to high vegetable prices, dependence on imported food, limited water resources, an arid climate and restricted cultivable land. At the same time, tourism, hotels, restaurants, international investment and air connectivity continue to grow, while Cabo Verde’s first participation in the 2026 FIFA World Cup has further increased the country’s international visibility. The research focuses on market demand, suitable crops, location selection, hydroponic technologies, production costs, pricing, resource requirements and operational organisation. The objective is to create a realistic, locally adapted business model that can supply hotels, restaurants, retailers and consumers with reliable fresh produce while supporting water efficiency, climate resilience and new economic opportunities in Cabo Verde.
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