Employees work in one of the lettuce production centers of Urban Farms enterprise, in Rio Hato township, of Cocle province, in Panama, on Aug. 30, 2015. According to local press, Urban Farms has developed the first vertical agriculture farm of Panama and Latin America together with controlled environment agriculture, a prospect in the region to reduce 30 per cent of the production costs, crops quality enhancement and the overcoming of climate change effects that impact the food security. (Xinhua/Mauricio Valenzuela)
