Table · dataset · 2026
Decentralized Solar-Driven Plant Factories Secure an Adequate Global Vegetable Supply beyond the Electricity Grid and Water Limitations
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Conventional open-field vegetable production is increasingly constrained by climate volatility and natural resource endowments, creating supply instabilities and shortages that threaten global food resilience and human health.
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Here, we integrate solar photovoltaics and atmospheric water harvesting with plant factories, creating a technically mature <b>o</b>ff-grid <b>a</b>gricultural <b>s</b>ystem using plant factor<b>i</b>e<b>s</b> (OASIS).
By decoupling production from local water and grid infrastructure, OASIS significantly expands the area suitable for cultivation. Globally, OASIS can meet the recommended upper vegetable intake (600 g capita<sup>–1</sup> day<sup>–1</sup>) for at least 98.3% of the population, leveraging mostly non-arable land. Cropland substitution could spare approximately 578,000 km<sup>2</sup> for staple food production and, under the idealized zero-operational-loss case, reduce agricultural nitrogen and phosphorus losses by up to 9.90 and 0.95 Tg yr<sup>–1</sup>, respectively.
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Estimated global, production-weighted levelized costs were 3.8–4.0 USD kg<sup>–1</sup> across six scenarios. Under the 600 g capita<sup>–1</sup> day<sup>–1</sup> scenario with cropland substitution, OASIS offered cost advantages over existing production benchmarks in 115 of 166 comparable countries, including all 26 low-income countries, which could meet modeled supply targets with a 32.2% average cost advantage. These results highlight OASIS’s potential to advance resilient, clean vegetable production and the Sustainable Development Goals across food security, health, and land conservation.
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| Loughborough Research Repository | oai:figshare.com:article/34052932 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| GRANTS Data | oai:figshare.com:article/34052932 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| UP Research Data Repository | oai:figshare.com:article/34052932 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].local:field:chemistry | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:computer-science-ai | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
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| concepts[field].local:field:economics-finance | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:economics-finance | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
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| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
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| concepts[field].local:field:medicine-health | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · grantsdata jst go jp | connector:grantsdata_jst_go_jp@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · researchdata up ac za | connector:researchdata_up_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
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