Does this high-tech lettuce hold the answer to the global food crisis?

Does this high-tech lettuce hold the answer to the global food crisis?
Photos courtesy of Leider Greenhouses

Bathed in a ghostly purple-red light, these floating lettuces are barely distinguishable from those grown outdoors, but require one-tenth as much land.

The high-tech greenhouse where they live, in Maasbree in the Netherlands, is one possible remedy for a global food industry in crisis, facing a shortage of land due to climate change and conflict.

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