The presentation covered the increasing probability of extreme weather events and their impact on the spread of harvests, quality of yields, and GHG emissions; the role of the Advanced Plant Growth Centre in developing vertical farming solutions; the importance of co-locating different disciplines to facilitate innovation, developing edible ‘green batteries’ as solutions which can be marketed abroad, the importance of peri-urban conditions to increasing the yield of nutritionally-high produce and saving money via import substitution.