Food
The Best Foods for Eating Well on a Budget
Here are our favorite affordable foods from each food group to help you eat healthy without breaking the bank.
Continue ReadingWhat Silicon Valley eats: Mark Zuckerberg’s diet of cold goat meat
The diets of the rich and famous are endlessly fascinating, but in Silicon Valley, where intense five-minute tech work / sleep regimes collide with the fads of California, tech billionaires take things to a whole other level.
Continue ReadingWhat Is Lab Grown Meat And Is It Healthy?
Rather than slaughtering animals, scientists will use the animal’s stem cells to create meat.
Continue Reading10 Ways Technology is Changing Our Food
Advances in tech and communications are increasing our awareness of the food industry and the ways we find, eat, and dispose of our food. Here’s why it matters.
Continue Reading10 Ways AI Has The Potential To Improve Agriculture In 2021
Gaining insight into how weather, seasonal sunlight, migratory patterns of animals, birds, insects, use of specialized fertilizers, insecticides by crop, planting cycles and irrigation cycles all affect yield is a perfect problem for machine learning.
Continue ReadingFarmers Need Practical Innovation, Not Moonshots, to Stave Off Global Food Crisis
The agricultural industry is trying to tackle these complex issues, but its innovation pipelines have stagnated. For example, it takes companies between 13-15 years to discover a new crop protection product and bring it to market, despite the urgent pest resistance issues farmers face.
Continue ReadingHow Digital Technology can Boost Sustainability
A growing number of agri-tech start-ups are developing ways of applying digital technologies to the mucky business of farming. Many of these technologies improve yields, cut waste and resource use, and enhance the sustainability of farming. And most do so by collecting and analysing an increasingly valuable asset: data.
Continue ReadingWhat You Should Know About Vertical Farming
By 2050, the world’s population is expected to grow to 9.7 billion people, and feeding it will be a huge challenge. Due to industrial development and urbanization, we are losing arable lands every day. In 2015, scientists reported that the Earth had lost a third of its arable lands over the previous 40 years.
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