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There is a real and credible concern that election-related violence might occur at some point in the coming weeks. It could take place on Election Day, in the form of armed thugs at polling stations in swing states, or extend throughout election season if no clear result is announced or, in what might be a worst-case scenario, if a candidate refuses to concede. Keep in mind that the Trump campaign has already tried to enlist every able bodied man and woman to join [an] Army for Trumps election security operation. As a country, we could be facing one of the most volatile and chaotic episodes in our history. This concern is underscored by many well understood and researched cases of election violence from around the world which have shared, among others, the following contributing factors:

All these factors are present in the current US context. But risks do not necessarily determine outcomes. As much as experts have analyzed, researched, and studied these risk factors, no expert sits with a crystal ball peering into a murky future. Human beings are unpredictable. But there is real power in the decisions that each of us make when social and political stress is high. Widespread civil resistance has, time and time again, proven to be the most effective tool to defend democracy and delegitimize political violence.

This is why our team at the War Prevention Initiative launched a campaign last week: #NonviolentElections2020. We noticed that mainstream information on nonviolent action is too narrowly focused on attending a protest or march, even though scholarship and practice clearly show that civil resistance is so much more. While protests are immensely important (and weve been incredibly impressed by the commitment to nonviolence demonstrated by Black Lives Matter protesters), these highly visible public demonstrations are not desirable or feasible to all. There are myriad reasons why perhaps youre a parent concerned about putting your children in harms way at a protest. Maybe youre immuno-compromised and concerned about the risk of COVID-19 transmission at public gatherings. Or youre a government employee with restrictions on what you can do or say. We also know that while mass protests historically have led to significant concessions, those in power have become savvier. Sustained and diverse tactics of civil resistance can chip away at the pillars of support that uphold the power structures in question.

Sustained and diverse tactics of civil resistance can chip away at the pillars of support that uphold the power structures in question.

There are over 200 forms of nonviolent civil resistance that have been used by social movements around the world, all documented in the Global Nonviolent Action Database hosted by Swarthmore College. During this campaign, we are highlighting several key categories that are cognizant of the risk factors outlined above and in the context of increasing rates of COVID-19 transmission around the country. Here are some to give you an idea:

Using drama and music like Billionaires for Bush

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Billionaires for Bush was a political street theater group that would appear at George W. Bush campaign stops, satirically supporting the incumbent president. This group used humor to convey their political opinion and attract supporters through entertaining, non-threatening, and nonviolent action.

Employing symbolic actions like the Redwood Rabbis

In January 1997, logging companies began clearing old growth redwood forests in northern California. The Redwood Rabbis protested deforestation by aligning with the Jewish imperative to guard the earth with reclaiming land owned by the logging company by trespassing on logging company land and planting redwood seedings.

Noncooperation with unjust laws like Saudi Women and their campaign for the right to drive

For over two decades, Saudi women waged a nonviolent campaign for recognition of their rights and at the very least the right to drive. Women would not cooperate with law and customs by driving en masse through the capital city and, in turn, were arrested. In 2018, Saudi women were permitted to drive after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman legally recognized womens right to drive.

Disobeying authority like how Dutch clergy members stood for immigrant rights

In October 2018, an immigrant family moved into a church in the Hague, Netherlands, to take sanctuary. 650 clergy members, over 1,000 pastors and clergy members of the church volunteered to hold a continuous religious service to resist deportation of an immigrant family. Dutch authorities are prohibited from interfering with a religious service and the church congregations disobedience prevented the family from deportation.

Obstructing like Casino-Free Philadelphia

Spurred by the 2007 Pennsylvania citizens Casino-Free Philadelphia campaign, the Philadelphia City Council stalled and enacted procedural hurdles to prevent two casino plans from proceeding. These obstruction tactics aided the larger campaign to ultimately stop one casino construction and significantly reduce the size of the other.

Striking like Rio Olympic workers

Ahead of the World Cup and Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the state government forcibly removed communities from low-income favelas for aesthetic purposes. Simultaneously, multiple industries went on strike in 2016 to demand better service workers pay amidst massive government spending to facilitate the events. The strikes were part of a larger campaign for human rights and against financial mismanagement that eventually led to arrest of the governor of Rio.

The best possible outcome is that this is all a moot point, and our country moves past election day with a clear and decisive winner and a concession by the candidate who fell short of the necessary votes. Short of that outcome, it is best that we all make a plan and take necessary action to defend American democracy. One thing is for sure, we cannot afford to miss the moment and look back at times of violent unrest asking, how could that happen?

Kelsey Coolidge, MA, is a social science researcher with an interest in peace and conflict, gender, and climate change. She is the managing editor of the Peace Science Digest and the Associate Director of the War Prevention Initiative of the Jubitz Family Foundation.

Kristin Henderson, MA, is a political violence and nonviolence researcher with an interest in state repression and civilian-led social movements. She is currently the Project Manager at War Prevention Initiative of the Jubitz Family Foundation.

Patrick. T. Hiller, Ph.D., is a Conflict Transformation scholar, professor, served on the Governing Council of the International Peace Research Association (2012-2016), is a member of the Peace and Security Funders Group, and is Director of the War Prevention Initiative of the Jubitz Family Foundation.

Follow our campaign on Twitter at @WarPrevention or through the hashtag #NonviolentElections2020, or follow us on Facebook and Instagram: War Prevention Initiative.

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TERTER, Azerbaijan For years, the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia had agreed to postpone discussion about the status of the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, to avoid inflaming passions. But that changed suddenly this spring, when Armenias populist prime minister declared the area indisputably Armenian.

To Azerbaijanis, who lost a bitter, unresolved war with Armenia over the region in the 1990s, the remark by the prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, landed with explosive force. Even more infuriating, it was delivered in Shusha, a city that Azerbaijanis regard as their cultural capital but that lies in territory lost during the war.

The final nail in the coffin of the negotiation process was when he said that Nagorno-Karabakh was Armenian, said Hikmet Hajiyev, foreign policy adviser to the Azerbaijani president.

The two countries returned to all-out war a month ago, with Azerbaijan determined to retake the roughly 13 percent of its land that Armenia seized 26 years ago, displacing 800,000 Azerbaijanis in the process. The fighting threatens to draw in Turkey, on the Azerbaijani side, and Russia, which backs Armenia.

Casualties in the conflict have already mounted into the thousands, but as his troops make advances, Azerbaijans president, Ilham Aliyev, is showing no signs of slowing down, and the country is gripped with war fever.

A cease-fire mediated in Washington last weekend was broken within an hour of coming into force as both sides traded artillery fire Monday morning.

Mr. Aliyev is demanding that Armenian forces withdraw to internationally recognized borders in keeping with United Nations Security Council resolutions and basic principles agreed to in previous negotiations. These were the terms agreed upon 10 years ago but never implemented, and analysts say that Armenia became less ambiguous this year about claiming Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts seized during the war.

Mr. Hajiyev said in an interview that Azerbaijan had hoped for progress when the Armenian leader, Mr. Pashinyan, came to power after a popular uprising in 2018. At their first meeting, Mr. Pashinyan, a former journalist, asked Mr. Aliyev for time but promised to pursue a new policy on Nagorno-Karabakh.

That policy never came. Tensions escalated this year, analysts say, as Mr. Pashinyan and his defense minister made increasingly populist statements over the territory, announcing plans to make Shusha the regional capital and in August moving the Parliament there. Those steps may ultimately prove to have been major miscalculations.

An American-Armenian historian, Jirair Libaridian, has suggested as much. We became obsessed with our dreams instead of focusing on the possible, he wrote in September.

Independent analysts largely see Azerbaijan as the main driver of the war, saying it prepared a major offensive, but add that Mr. Pashinyan pushed the envelope with his populist talk.

Its logical that Azerbaijan wanted to start this, not the Armenians, who merely want the status quo, said Thomas de Waal, a senior fellow with Carnegie Europe and author of Black Garden, a book on Nagorno-Karabakh. But the Armenians also played their part with provocative moves.

The Armenian government has accused Azerbaijan of mounting a planned offensive and of instigating the clashes that led to all-out war, and says it is acting entirely in self-defense.

Russia has been a crucial presence backing Armenia. It supported Armenia in the original conflict, maintains two military bases in the country and has provided support and equipment.

Since the moribund truce in 2009, leaders of both countries proceeded carefully, believing it was politically safer to stick with the status quo than risk the territorial compromises that a peace deal would demand, Mr. de Waal said.

All the while, Mr. Aliyev, who inherited the presidency from his father in 2003, was using his countrys oil and gas wealth to build up the military, purchasing advanced weapons and sending officers for NATO-standard training in Turkey.

The rearming effort seemed to bear fruit in 2016, when in four days of fighting Azerbaijani forces seized control of a village just over the cease-fire line. But Russia intervened to stop the advance, said Farid Shafiyev, a former diplomat and director of the government-funded Center for Analysis of International Relations in Baku.

The popular disappointment at that time was palpable, he said. He noticed the same public reaction when Russia negotiated a cease-fire on Oct. 10, just two weeks into the latest fighting. People were very depressed, he said.

The immediate spark for the current conflict came in July, in a deadly clash near the border town of Tovuz, where Azerbaijans vital oil and gas pipelines run on their way to Georgia and Turkey.

Armenian soldiers fired on an Azerbaijani military vehicle, touching off heavy cross-border exchanges that killed more than a dozen people, including several officers.

One of those killed, Maj. Gen. Polad Hashimov, was a popular figure whose death stirred an outpouring of emotion. A small protest became a demonstration of tens of thousands of people marching through the capital, Baku, demanding that the country retake Nagorno-Karabakh.

The July events sent a shock wave, said Mr. Hajiyev, the policy adviser. And public opinion and the youngsters sent this message: Enough is enough.

Frustrations over the coronavirus pandemic and severe water shortages added pressure, said an Azerbaijani journalist, Khadija Izmayilova. It was clear to Aliyev that the public was ready to explode and it was time to act.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey regarded the clash at Tovuz as a strategic threat to Azerbaijan and immediately dispatched jets and troops for two weeks of joint military exercises with the Azerbaijani military.

Turkish analysts saw Mr. Erdogans move as a way to gain leverage in his dealings with Russia. But protecting his Turkic ally, which recently replaced Russia as Turkeys main source of natural gas, was also hugely important.

It is a clich that Turkey was instigating it, Mr. Shafiyev, of the Center for Analysis of International Relations, said of Azerbaijans venture into war. But he confirmed, as both Mr. Erdogan and Mr. Aliyev have since, that Turkey has promised active support if Azerbaijan were to run into difficulties.

In August, the Azerbaijani authorities said the army had detained Armenian troops making another cross-border foray. We understood something was coming, Mr. Hajiyev said.

After years of trading sporadic artillery fire, both sides were poised and ready for more by September.

Villagers living on the Azerbaijani side of the cease-fire line near the town of Terter were forewarned by the Azerbaijani military on Sept. 26. Some who had cars left in the night. Those who stayed described a barrage of Armenian rockets at 7 a.m. the following day.

We hear shelling all the time, but this was completely different, said Gulbeniz Badalova, 59, who lives in Terter, just 500 yards from the cease-fire line. They started to fire continuously, and we all got scared.

Azerbaijan quickly retaliated, saying it was defending its civilian populations. They started attacking civilians and we were obliged to make a counter offensive operation, Mr. Hajiyev said. But even some officials admitted they had been waiting for an excuse to launch an attack.

Azerbaijani troops have already retaken parts of four southern districts along the border with Iran and have come within striking distance of the Lachin corridor, a mountain pass that is a critical supply route from Armenia.

But there is little doubt that it has been tough going for Azerbaijani forces. Baku has not released numbers of military casualties, but President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Thursday that each side had already lost more than 2,000 soldiers in less than a month of fighting. Missile strikes have also killed at least 65 civilians from Azerbaijan and 37 from Armenia, according to official figures from both sides.

Public support for the offensive remains solidly behind Mr. Aliyev and the army, but the president could face a difficult job managing expectations.

Many Azerbaijani families displaced by the shelling in Terter are originally refugees from Karabakh, and said they would not be satisfied if Mr. Aliyev halted after taking only a few districts.

Its not enough, Zarifa Suleymanova, 43, said, before listing all the regions Azerbaijan needed back. We have very brave sons. It will not take long.

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New York, Oct. 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Asia Pacific Horticulture Lighting Market Forecast to 2027 - COVID-19 Impact and Analysis - by Technology, Application, and Cultivation" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05978825/?utm_source=GNW Due to the population boom witnessed in APAC countries, the demand for food products is anticipated to extend within the coming years.

This is often why several countries in APAC are focusing on greenhouse and indoor farming techniques to extend their agricultural yield significantly.Use of artificial lights for farming purposes is sort of low, particularly in some developing countries across APAC region.

Still, with the growing popularity of horticulture and indoor crop cultivation, the APAC horticulture lighting market is predicted to pace up quickly within the near future because the farmers are adopting big data technologies, predictive analytics, internet of things, and automation within the farming techniques.Such developments and research initiatives taken in the horticulture field are driving the growth of the APAC horticulture lighting market.

Growing government initiatives such as legalization of cannabis, various incentives is among the other factors expected to positively influence the demand for horticulture lighting in APAC. Furthermore, the APAC region is highly affected by COVID-19 outbreak, especially China and India. APAC is characterized by a large number of developing countries, positive economic outlook, high industrial presence, huge population, and rising disposable income. All these factors make APAC a major growth driving region for various markets, including horticulture lighting. Due to the pandemic, uncertain consumer demand and supply chain problems have affected the horticulture lighting industry in the region. The lockdown of various factories in China has affected the supply chains and negatively impacted the manufacturing and sales of various products and services. The pandemic has a severe impact on the LED industry since the supply chain is mostly located in this region and production majorly comes from China. The governments are taking drastic measures to reduce the effects of coronavirus outbreak by announcing lockdowns as well as travel and trade bans. All these measures are expected to have a negative impact on the adoption and growth of horticulture lighting in 2020 and 2021.

Based on cultivation, the fruits and vegetables segment led the APAC horticulture lighting market in 2019.The dominance of this segment is mainly ascribed to the significantly greater use of artificial light for growing vegetables and fruits than that in the cultivation of flowers.

According to the APAC-based Department of Agriculture, in 2019, there was a rise in the production of apples, grapes, and pears, than that in 2018, in APAC region.This is anticipated to contribute toward the greater use of horticulture lighting in the cultivation of fruits and vegetables.

The climate variations in APAC countries, such as Australia and India, hamper agriculture, which compels them to import fresh vegetables and fruits from neighboring regions.The indoor and vertical farming techniques allow these countries to produce fruits and vegetables in a controlled environment.

The fruits and vegetables segment is expected to dominate the market in the APAC region during the forecast period.

The overall APAC horticulture lighting market size has been derived using both primary and secondary sources.To begin the research process, exhaustive secondary research has been conducted using internal and external sources to obtain qualitative and quantitative information related to the market.

The process also serves the purpose of obtaining overview and forecast for the APAC horticulture lighting market with respect to all the segments pertaining to the region.Also, multiple primary interviews have been conducted with industry participants and commentators to validate the data, as well as to gain more analytical insights into the topic.

The participants who typically take part in such a process include industry experts, such as VPs, business development managers, market intelligence managers, and national sales managers, along with external consultants, such as valuation experts, research analysts, and key opinion leaders specializing in the APAC horticulture lighting market. Key players operating in the APAC horticulture lighting market include General Electric Company; Heliospectra AB; Hubbell, Inc.; Lumileds Holding B.V.; OSRAM Licht AG; and Signify N.V.Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05978825/?utm_source=GNW

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When Dr. Norman Rosenthal moved to the U.S. from South Africa, he felt less energetic during the harsh winters. He noticed that other people felt the same way. "Just like the autumn leaves, they became depressed on schedule," says Rosenthal, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine. "In spring, the condition reverses itself." He studied the problem, published the first research on the syndrome and coined its name: seasonal affective disorder, or SAD.

Rosenthal found that about 1 in 20 people in the U.S. has SAD. If you have it, you may feel sluggish or depressed, oversleep, overeat, gain weight and be uninterested in doing things you previously enjoyed. Many more people have the winter blues, a milder version of SAD, where you feel like a sadder, sleepier or slower version of yourself.

One of Rosenthal's patients described themselves as feeling like a bear in the winter and wanting to hibernate. "So if you feel any identification with a hibernating bear, you might well have SAD," he says. Women are about four times more vulnerable than men, and the condition is more common in the Northern Hemisphere.

With winter just around the corner, here's why you may feel this way and simple ways to feel better.

When Maia was a teenager, she noticed that in the winter, she didn't feel like herself. She says she was "just lying there for hours and hours, not knowing how to get out of bed and move or do anything." The songwriter from California doesn't use her last name to protect the privacy of her family. (She goes by mxmtoon, pronounced em-ex-em-toon, in her music.) It was hard for her to do basic things like eat a meal, drink water or even use the bathroom.

She tweeted about it. "I went on Twitter and I was like, am I crazy? Because I feel really sad right now." Lots of people tweeted back, telling her to look into seasonal affective disorder. So she talked to her parents and friends and realized they all felt the same way.

Rosenthal says if you feel like things are getting more difficult every fall when it gets darker earlier, but you feel better in the bright days of spring and summer, you may well have SAD.

While some people don't feel different at all when the seasons change, Rosenthal says others are quite disabled by it. People diagnosed with SAD, he says, are "people who would go to a doctor because the problem was bad enough."

Rosenthal says it can be hard to recognize a pattern, because the symptoms creep up on you. "For example, it might be a little bit serious in September and a little worse in October and a little worse in November. It's a little bit like the story of the frog in the bowl that keeps getting warmed up, and he doesn't really realize that he's going to die of overheating because it happens so incrementally."

But, he says, recognizing your symptoms and taking them seriously are critical, because SAD can be debilitating or worse.

Light and not getting enough of it are at the heart of this disorder.

It turns out that a fundamental part of the physiology of this condition is that some people just need more light. One often recommended fix for this is a SAD lamp. Rosenthal says these lamps generate light that's far more intense than indoor lighting about 10,000 lux, a measurement of light.

This light is absorbed through the eyes, not the skin but, he says, don't stare at it. Rosenthal says he places it so that the light is shining down on him, just like it would if it were a sunny day. "That's how we evolved to see light with the heavens above and the sun shining down, so that it comes and hits the bottom part of our retina." The morning is often the best time, and the earlier the better.

He says if you use the lamp for about 20 to 30 minutes a day, you should feel a difference within two weeks. If you don't, return it.

Recent studies suggest that the value of preventive light therapy is inconclusive and that it's really a patient's preference whether to use it or not. But as a treatment for those who have seasonal affective disorder, SAD lamps have made a big difference.

Isabel Harris, known as Iz in the vlogging world, experiences SAD as "general fogginess and sleepiness." Most people go about their day normally with indoor lighting, but for people with SAD, that indoor lighting is the equivalent of darkness. Iz bought a SAD lamp, and the result was astonishing. "If I come in feeling a bit foggy-headed, I'll turn it on and it functions a lot like taking a walk outside, just like allowing my brain to wake up a little bit."

She has used this SAD light for eight years. "And on the days that I don't, I notice a significant difference in irritability and kind of just general hopelessness and energy levels," she says.

Remember, even if you use a SAD lamp, make sure you are still trying to get as much natural light as possible. Go outside, even if you don't feel like it, because even when it appears overcast, you are getting light from the sun. Remember that small things can make a difference, so trim any overgrowth around your windows and clean the panes.

Rosenthal says people with SAD have a tremendous appetite for carbohydrates. "They crave sweets and starches. And needless to say, that puts on weight, and they can't always take it off in the summer, so every year they're ratcheting up a little more, a little more, and it's a real problem."

Emily Manoogian, Ph.D., is a clinical researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. She says it's not only what you eat and how much but, importantly, when.

To understand this, we need to understand circadian rhythms.

" 'Circadian' is just Latin for 'about a day.' When we talk about circadian rhythms, it's referring to these 24-hour rhythms that we have within our body and throughout biology," she says.

Think of every cell and system in your body as having a tiny clock. And each of these tiny clocks is on approximately a 24-hour cycle, so a master clock in your brain coordinates and makes sure those tiny clocks work together. This "circadian system" essentially signals to your body what time of day it is and what time of year it is and helps match your behavior with your environment.

Manoogian says people with SAD usually have a sort of delay in their circadian rhythm. Manoogian says just like light, food is an important cue to your body. "If you are eating, your body thinks it should be awake."

So what does this have to do with SAD?

She says when the days get shorter, eating or not eating is a good way to signal all those tiny clocks. "Being able to coordinate your internal clocks with your environment can kind of help ease any burden that changes in seasons might have," she says.

Make sure to stop eating three hours before you go to sleep, so your body knows to rest. By just controlling the time that you eat and keeping it within a consistent 10- to 12-hour window, you're giving your body a really strong cue to tell it the time of day, regardless of anything else that's going on.

Like light or food, exercise is another environmental cue that helps signal to all those internal clocks what time it is. Manoogian says physical activity is a cue that says "wake up." "Doing things like exercising during the active time of your day can actually help your body know kind of what time of day it is, coordinate using all that energy and stimulate the brain to be awake to the right time of day and then allow your body to really rest in the evening."

She says controlling those external cues allows your body to really respond to the environment much better.

Rosenthal says when it's cold and dark and you don't feel energetic and aren't active, it can turn into a vicious cycle. "You don't feel like getting up in the morning, so you pull the covers over your head, so you get less light. So you feel more depressed, so you feel even less like getting up. Whereas if you force yourself to get up, then push yourself to do all these things, then you can feel much, much better," he says. Try to push through.

Rosenthal says seasonal affective disorder has three main causes: a genetic component, a lack-of-light component and stress.

He says if you didn't have to do anything, the symptoms wouldn't be as pronounced. "It's when you've got things to do and you're feeling down and not thinking straight and not feeling effective, that's where you can really feel most depressed."

Reduce stress as much as you can. You may want to see a therapist and talk through how you feel. You may want to try meditation. Rosenthal says the effects of practicing meditation on SAD haven't been fully studied yet, but he believes it can help because meditation destresses you.

Be proactive about making pleasurable plans.

Maia says she doesn't wait for occasions like a birthday or holidays to do something special anymore; she celebrates small things that bring her joy. "I try and make myself have things to look forward to, whether it's like baking a pie on the weekend or drinking a cup of tea every single day. And that fuels me a little bit more and feeds me as a person when I'm not able to go outside and feel fed by the world."

For Maia, an important form of self-care is songwriting. Writing about what she's going through helps her process her feelings. She released a song called "Seasonal Depression" as mxmtoon.

She also accepts that for her, winter will never feel like summer. "I've also reminded myself that it's just an indication that the year is passing by and that's OK. Reminding yourself that everything is cyclical and it's bad right now, but it will be good in the future."

Rosenthal says a lot of people do really well following these simple tips. But if you don't find yourself feeling better or if SAD is interfering with your personal relationships or work, he says, medication can also be very effective.

And keep in mind that none of this will make the disorder go away, but as Rosenthal puts it: "It's not a cure, but ... sometimes the SAD dies of neglect."

The podcast portion of this episode was produced by Andee Tagle.

We'd love to hear from you. Leave us a voicemail at 202-216-9823, or email us at LifeKit@npr.org.

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New York, Oct. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "North America Horticulture Lighting Market Forecast to 2027 - COVID-19 Impact and Regional Analysis By Technology, Application, and Cultivation" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05978899/?utm_source=GNW

Increase in population and advancements in greenhouse and indoor farming techniques are expected to boost the growth of the horticulture lighting market in North America.Due to the population boom, the demand for food products is anticipated to increase in the coming years.

This is why numerous countries in North America are focusing on greenhouse and indoor farming techniques to increase their agricultural yield significantly.With the growing popularity of the concepts of horticulture and indoor crop cultivation, the North America horticulture lighting market is expected to pace up quickly in the near future as the farmers are adopting big data technologies, predictive analytics, the internet of things, and automation in the farming techniques.

For example, The Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, a Canadian research organization, is currently testing a robot that picks mushrooms.Such developments and research initiatives taken in the horticulture field are driving the growth of the North America horticulture lighting market.

Rising government initiatives is among the other factors expected to positively influence the demand for horticulture lighting in North America. Furthermore, in case of COVID-19, North America is the worlds worst affected region due to coronavirus outbreak, specially the US. North America is an important market for the growth of horticulture lighting products owing to the presence of developed countries such as the US and Canada in this region. Large no. of farmers has been affected by coronavirus in North America, threatening access to agricultural labor and disrupting worldwide supply chains. However, for indoor farming, it has offered an opportunity. In vertical farming, the batches of crops can be watered individually and ignited with the help of LED lights, enabling them to be grown year-round with less resource. Nevertheless, the factory and business shutdowns across the US, Canada, and Mexico negatively impacted the sales of horticulture lighting products, such as LED lights and fluorescent lamps. COVID-19 has had a severe impact on logistics operations, transportation, and trade activity across North America.

Based on technology, the LED lights segment led the North America horticulture lighting market in 2019.LED lights are made from a very thin layer of doped semiconductor material.

An LED emits colored light at a particular spectral wavelength, depending on the semiconductor material used and the amount of doping.The ability of LEDs to separate waste heat from the illumination allows the placement of LEDs near plant canopies without the risk of plants overheating.

However, the cost of LED light bulbs is higher than the other horticulture lighting technologies, such as fluorescent lamps and HID lights.While working in indoor farms, the personnel need to use eye protection, since LEDs can be harmful to human eyes.

Durability and easy availability of LED lights is the main reason for their success in market, which ultimately drives the North America horticulture lighting market.

The overall North America horticulture lighting market size has been derived using both primary and secondary sources.To begin the research process, exhaustive secondary research has been conducted using internal and external sources to obtain qualitative and quantitative information related to the market.

The process also serves the purpose of obtaining overview and forecast for the North America horticulture lighting market with respect to all the segments pertaining to the region.Also, multiple primary interviews have been conducted with industry participants and commentators to validate the data, as well as to gain more analytical insights into the topic.

The participants who typically take part in such a process include industry experts, such as VPs, business development managers, market intelligence managers, and national sales managers, along with external consultants, such as valuation experts, research analysts, and key opinion leaders specializing in the North America horticulture lighting market. Major players operating in the North America horticulture lighting market include Agrolux; Bridgelux, Inc.; General Electric Company; Heliospectra AB; Hubbell, Inc.; Lumileds Holding B.V.; OSRAM Licht AG; PARsource; and Signify N.V.Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05978899/?utm_source=GNW

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Furthermore, our market analysts have drawn focus to the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global LED Indoor Lighting market and its key segments and sub-segments. The grave aftereffects of the pandemic on the global economy, and subsequently, on this particular business sphere, have been enumerated in this section of the report. The report considers the key market-influencing parameters, delivering a detailed future impact assessment. The LED Indoor Lighting market has been devastated by the pandemic, which has culminated in drastic changes to the market dynamics and demand trends.

Light Source (Revenue, USD Million; 20162026)

Application (Revenue, USD Million; 20162026)

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Historical Years: 2017-2018

Base Year: 2019

Estimated Year: 2020

Forecast Years: 2020-2027

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New York, Oct. 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "South America Horticulture Lighting Market Forecast to 2027 - COVID-19 Impact and Regional Analysis By Technology, Application, and Cultivation" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05978926/?utm_source=GNW According to the latest UN estimates, the population of South America would rise at a fast pace by 2030.

Due to the population boom witnessed in Brazil and Argentina, the demand for food products is anticipated to increase in the next few years.This is why several countries are focusing on greenhouse and indoor farming techniques to increase their agricultural yield significantly.

Use of artificial lights for farming purposes is quite low, particularly in countries, such as Brazil and Argentina.Still, with the growing popularity of horticulture and indoor crop cultivation, the horticulture lighting market is expected to pace up quickly in the near future as the farmers are adopting big data technologies, predictive analytics, Internet of things, and automation in the farming techniques.

Such developments and research initiatives taken in the horticulture field are driving the growth of the SAM horticulture lighting market. Moreover, rise in government initiatives to create awareness about sustainable cropland in order to support sustainability is among the other factors expected to positively influence the demand for horticulture lighting in SAM.

Based on technology, the LED lights segment led the SAM horticulture lighting market in 2019.LED lights are made from a very thin layer of doped semiconductor material.

An LED emits colored light at a particular spectral wavelength, depending on the semiconductor material used and the amount of doping.Though the cost of LED light bulbs is higher than the other horticulture lighting technologies, such as fluorescent lamps and HID lights but the major advantage it provides is its ability to separate waste heat from the illumination source, which allows the placement of LEDs near plant canopies without the risk of plants overheating.

While working in indoor farms, the personnel need to use eye protection, since LEDs can be harmful to human eyes.Long lasting capability and low power consumption of LED lights is the main reason for their success in market, which ultimately drives the SAM horticulture lighting market.

Furthermore, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the SAM region. Brazil has the highest number of COVID-19 confirmed cases, followed by other countries, such as Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Argentina. The governments of various countries in SAM are taking several initiatives to protect people and to control COVID-19s spread in the region through lockdowns, trade bans, and travel restrictions. These measures are expected to have a direct impact on the regions economic growth as the region would face lower export revenues, both from the drop in commodity prices and reduction in export volumes, especially to major trading partners, such as China, Europe, and North America. At present, the total number of cases in Brazil accounted for 3,627,217 out of which 115,451 total deaths are recorded. The sharp decline in the sales of various horticulture lighting products in the region due to lockdown measures is expected to directly impact the growth of the horticulture lighting market in this region. The sharp decline in business activities and product sales is expected to directly affect the growth rate of the horticulture lighting market in SAM region for the next three to four quarters.

The overall SAM horticulture lighting market size has been derived using both primary and secondary sources.To begin the research process, exhaustive secondary research has been conducted using internal and external sources to obtain qualitative and quantitative information related to the market.

The process also serves the purpose of obtaining overview and forecast for the horticulture lighting market with respect to all the segments pertaining to the region.Also, multiple primary interviews have been conducted with industry participants and commentators to validate the data, as well as to gain more analytical insights into the topic.

The participants who typically take part in such a process include industry experts, such as VPs, business development managers, market intelligence managers, and national sales managers along with external consultants, such as valuation experts, research analysts, and key opinion leaders specializing in the SAM horticulture lighting market. General Electric Company; Hubbell, Inc.; Lumileds Holding B.V.; OSRAM Licht AG; Signify N.V. are among a few players operating in the SAM horticulture lighting market.Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05978926/?utm_source=GNW

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Growing developments in greenhouse and indoor farming techniques and soaring population are expected to accelerate the growth of the MEA horticulture lighting market.According to the latest UN estimates, the population of the MEA would see a surge by 2030.

Due to the population boom witnessed in South Africa and the UAE, the demand for food products is anticipated to rise in the next few years.This is why several countries are focusing on greenhouse and indoor farming techniques to increase their agricultural yield significantly.

Use of artificial lights for farming purposes is quite low, particularly in countries, such as South Africa.Still, with the growing popularity of horticulture and indoor crop cultivation, the horticulture lighting market is expected to pace up quickly in the near future as the farmers are adopting big data technologies, predictive analytics, Internet of things, and automation in the farming techniques.

Various developments and research initiatives taken in the horticulture field are driving the growth of the MEA horticulture lighting market. Furthermore, rise in initiatives taken by government is among the other factors expected to positively influence the demand for horticulture lighting in MEA.

Based on application, the greenhouse segment led the MEA horticulture lighting market in 2019.Greenhouses allow practicing horticulture in a protected environment, thus ensuring optimum yield.

These facilities are designed to trap and retain natural sunlight and humidity, which makes it suitable for growing diverse variety of plants.Polyhouses or polytunnels are polyethylene greenhouses.

Plants can either be grown via a conventional method that uses soil as a base or through the hydroponic technique.Plants grown in greenhouses are protected against external factors such as dirt.

Also, they can be shielded from insects and pests with proper care. Moreover, in such settings, the plants are protected from rain, hail, intense heat and sunlight, and snow. In controlled environments, including greenhouses, electric lamps are adopted to supplement sunlight and prolong lighting times to deliver horticultural crops, such as flowers, vegetables, and herbs. Modern improvements in energy-efficient LED technology are supposed to make various lighting options available for the horticulture industry. The main reason for Greenhouses success is that it is an energy efficient lighting option. These factors ultimately drives the MEA horticulture lighting market. Furthermore, the recent ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the MEA region very badly. Among the MEA countries, South Africa has faced the highest number of COVID-19 confirmed cases, which is 611,450. Other major countries that are facing the economic impact of COVID-19 include Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Morocco, and Kuwait. The region comprises many growing economies such as the UAE, which are prospective markets for horticulture lightning providers, owing to the huge investment in vertical farming. The COVID-19 pandemic is going to severely impact the MEA market compared to the other regions since the major problem related to declining oil prices are already affecting the economies of several oil-producing countries in MEA. Moreover, the factory lockdowns, business shutdowns, and travel bans are further aggravating the economic problems of the countries in the MEA region. Hence, the estimated decline in MEA's economic condition and impact of COVID-19 on the growth of various industries in the region are expected to negatively impact the growth of the horticulture lightning market in 2020 and 2021.

The overall MEA horticulture lighting market size has been derived using both primary and secondary sources.To begin the research process, exhaustive secondary research has been conducted using internal and external sources to obtain qualitative and quantitative information related to the market.

The process also serves the purpose of obtaining overview and forecast for the MEA horticulture lighting market with respect to all the segments pertaining to the region.Also, multiple primary interviews have been conducted with industry participants and commentators to validate the data, as well as to gain more analytical insights into the topic.

The participants who typically take part in such a process include industry experts, such as VPs, business development managers, market intelligence managers, and national sales managers, along with external consultants, such as valuation experts, research analysts, and key opinion leaders specializing in the SAM horticulture lighting market. General Electric Company; Hortilux Schrder B.V.; Lumileds Holding B.V.; OSRAM Licht AG; Signify N.V. are among a few players operating in the MEA horticulture lighting market.

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Market Overview of Indoor Farming Lighting Market

The Indoor Farming Lighting market report provides a detailed analysis of global market size, regional and country-level market size, segmentation market growth, market share, competitive Landscape, sales analysis, impact of domestic and global market players, value chain optimization, trade regulations, recent developments, opportunities analysis, strategic market growth analysis, product launches, area marketplace expanding, and technological innovations.

The global Indoor Farming Lighting market size is expected to gain market growth in the forecast period of 2020 to 2025, with a CAGR of xx%% in the forecast period of 2020 to 2025 and will expected to reach USD xx million by 2025, from USD xx million in 2019.

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Market segmentation

Indoor Farming Lighting market is split by Type and by Application. For the period 2015-2025, the growth among segments provide accurate calculations and forecasts for sales by Type and by Application in terms of volume and value. This analysis can help you expand your business by targeting qualified niche markets.

Segment by Type, the Indoor Farming Lighting market is segmented intoHalogenLED

Segment by Application, the Indoor Farming Lighting market is segmented intoSmall FarmingMedium-sized FarmingLarge Farming

Regional and Country-level AnalysisThe Indoor Farming Lighting market is analysed and market size information is provided by regions (countries).The key regions covered in the Indoor Farming Lighting market report are North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa. It also covers key regions (countries), viz, U.S., Canada, Germany, France, U.K., Italy, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, etc.The report includes country-wise and region-wise market size for the period 2015-2026. It also includes market size and forecast by Type, and by Application segment in terms of sales and revenue for the period 2015-2026.

Regional analysis is another highly comprehensive part of the research and analysis study of the global Indoor Farming Lighting market presented in the report. This section sheds light on the sales growth of different regional and country-level Indoor Farming Lighting markets. For the historical and forecast period 2015 to 2025, it provides detailed and accurate country-wise volume analysis and region-wise market size analysis of the global Indoor Farming Lighting market.

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The report offers in-depth assessment of the growth and other aspects of the Indoor Farming Lighting market in important countries (regions), including:

North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)

Europe (Germany, France, UK, Russia and Italy)

Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia)

South America (Brazil, Argentina, etc.)

Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa)

Indoor Farming Lighting competitive landscape provides details by vendors, including company overview, company total revenue (financials), market potential, global presence, Indoor Farming Lighting sales and revenue generated, market share, price, production sites and facilities, SWOT analysis, product launch. For the period 2015-2020, this study provides the Indoor Farming Lighting sales, revenue and market share for each player covered in this report.

Competitive Landscape and Indoor Farming Lighting Market Share AnalysisIndoor Farming Lighting market competitive landscape provides details and data information by players. The report offers comprehensive analysis and accurate statistics on revenue by the player for the period 2015-2020. It also offers detailed analysis supported by reliable statistics on revenue (global and regional level) by players for the period 2015-2020. Details included are company description, major business, company total revenue and the sales, revenue generated in Indoor Farming Lighting business, the date to enter into the Indoor Farming Lighting market, Indoor Farming Lighting product introduction, recent developments, etc.The major vendors covered:Philips Lighting (Netherlands)EVERLIGHT Electronics (Taiwan)Netafim (Israel)Argus Controls Systems (Canada)LumiGrow (US)Logiqs (Netherlands)Illumitex (US)Vertical Farm Systems (Australia)Hydrodynamics International (US)General Hydroponics (US)Richel Group (France)agrilution (Germany)

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The content of the study subjects, includes a total of 15 chapters:

Chapter 1, to describe Indoor Farming Lighting product scope, market overview, market opportunities, market driving force and market risks.

Chapter 2, to profile the top manufacturers of Indoor Farming Lighting , with price, sales, revenue and global market share of Indoor Farming Lighting in 2018 and 2019.

Chapter 3, the Indoor Farming Lighting competitive situation, sales, revenue and global market share of top manufacturers are analyzed emphatically by landscape contrast.

Chapter 4, the Indoor Farming Lighting breakdown data are shown at the regional level, to show the sales, revenue and growth by regions, from 2015 to 2020.

Chapter 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, to break the sales data at the country level, with sales, revenue and market share for key countries in the world, from 2015 to 2020.

Chapter 10 and 11, to segment the sales by type and application, with sales market share and growth rate by type, application, from 2015 to 2020.

Chapter 12, Indoor Farming Lighting market forecast, by regions, type and application, with sales and revenue, from 2020 to 2025.

Chapter 13, 14 and 15, to describe Indoor Farming Lighting sales channel, distributors, customers, research findings and conclusion, appendix and data source.

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Heliospectra announced a collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services (ISAS), the University of Tokyo. In an effort to redefine and unleash the potential of indoor tomato production, this will be a joint research project with the Universitys Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services (ISAS), in collaboration with Associate Professor Wataru Yamori at the Agricultural Biology and Biogeochemistry Group, and Heliospectra Japan.

With the average age of Japanese farmers reaching 67 years old and younger generations migrating to cities, traditional farming is facing a crisis. This is forcing the country to investigate new ways to produce food. Plant factories are scaling to meet consumer food demand, mainly in vegetable cultivation in both solar and artificial light environments, and the industry is growing. Japan already has approximately 200 lettuce factories using artificial light, and that number is expected to double by 2025. However, to-date, plant factories have been unsuccessful in cultivating light-hungry vine crops such as tomatoes in indoor artificial light. Heliospectra and the University of Tokyo want to challenge this.

Working together, they are looking to build a business model for Japans plant factories and PFAL (Plant Factory with Artificial Lighting) organizations for indoor tomato cultivation. In the University lab, the Professor and his students will be using Heliospectras MITRA linear, the horticulture markets first truly modular LED light. Designed by growers for growers, MITRA is a solution for high-light crops, with high-intensity light output and electrical efficacy of up to 2.8 mol/J.

We are very excited to be a part of this research together with Dr. Yamori and the ISAS at the University of Tokyo. Over the years, Heliospectra has conducted research on lights effect on tomatoes in indoor facilities with great results, comments Yasuhiro Suzuki, General Manager of Heliospectra Japan. We now look forward to further expanding our knowledge and developing more effective indoor cultivation of tomatoes for commercial use. We look forward to collaborating with the university and sharing with the world our knowledge of growing tomatoes indoors.

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