Why Cities Must Act Now on Making Their Food Systems Resilient to Climate Change | Henry Gordon-Smith

Why Cities Must Act Now on Making Their
Food Systems Resilient to Climate Change

Henry Gordon Smith
Founder & CEO, Agritecture

Henry Gordon-Smith is the founder and CEO of Agritecture. Henry helps clients identify and focus their goals, prepares consulting proposals, and develops winning urban agriculture concepts and strategies.

Henry is an acknowledged global thought leader in the accelerating vertical and urban agriculture industry and has facilitated, moderated and spoken at sustainability-driven forums and events worldwide.

His engaging, dynamic speaking style stems from his over 8 years of experience consulting and spearheading numerous environmental and sustainability initiatives. Henry’s insight adds value to any organization seeking to explore the intersection of sustainability, urban agriculture and technology.

Henry holds a BA in Political Science, coursework in Food Security and Urban Agriculture, and an MSc in Sustainability Management from Columbia University. He has visited urban farms in 5 continents and worked on community and for profit urban farms.

Henry serves as an advisor to multiple AgTech startups and is on the board of the non-profit organization Teens for Food Justice.

We help clients turn their urban agriculture ideas into realities.

Agritecture was founded by Henry Gordon-Smith in 2014 (originally “Blue Planet Consulting”) to help entrepreneurs navigate the crucial planning stage for their urban farming business and avoid costly mistakes. Since then, Agritecture has grown into the world’s leading advisory firm on urban and controlled environment agriculture, working with clients of all types - from entrepreneurs, to investors, to technology providers - in more than 25 countries.

To continue highlighting the latest innovation and pushing the industry toward greater transparency, our content team maintains an active blog, social media presence, and email newsletter, counting more than 125,000 active followers. In 2020, we launched our own software platform, Agritecture Designer.

Agritecture is comprised of a global team of interdisciplinary consultants that rely on an ever-expanding dataset and a proven methodology, having completed more than 150 projects to date.