<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-and-events/news/ask-the-expert-could-controlled-environment-agriculture-be-the-future-of-farming-and-solve-food-insecurity.aspx" dsn="blogs"><homehero>true</homehero><pubDate>06/02/2023</pubDate><title>Ask the expert: Could Controlled Environment Agriculture be the future of farming and solve food insecurity?</title><description><p>Yongsig Kim, a senior research associate in the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory in Michigan State University’s College of Natural Science, is leading MSU’s $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agricultural Systems program in the National Institute of Food and Agriculture that is responsible for reimagining what CEA will look like in a low-carbon world with lower carbon dioxide emissions and growing new vegetation that leaves a low-carbon footprint.</p></description><author/><hero-image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2023/kim-banner.PNG" alt="The inside of a greenhouse"/></hero-image><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2023/yongsig-kim1.png" alt="The inside of a greenhouse"/></image><tags><tag>Postdocs</tag><tag>Thomashow lab</tag></tags></item>