🍔 Food Tech
A lot of innovation is going on in food tech, making food cheaper, more nutritious, better tasting and with less emissions during production. Here you'll find articles about AI, sensors and IoT, big data, digital biology, precision farming, cell-grown meat, GMO and automation.
🌱 Simple super fast growing plant can help with both food scarcity and climate change
Scientists are trying to understand how and why the plant Duckweed grows so fast. Getting clues from the plant’s genes could help with both food scarcity and climate change.
🥗 Are you ready for the new food? – Invasive species, insects and fish on land
We already know that meat production, trawling, and one-sided farming in mega-format are environmental culprits with an end date. But now new types of climate-smart food are being developed.
🌟 1: 360 - one hectare of vertical cultivation produces as much as three hundred and sixty hectares of traditional cultivation
Vertical crops are considered to be truly sustainable. Startups have already attracted hundreds of billions of dollars to the area.
🌴 The project that saved 18,000 square kilometers of rainforest
An agreement between growers and buyers shows that it is possible to increase soy production in Brazil without felling any rainforest.
🥗 Denmark is building Europe's largest vertical cultivation
The Danish company Nordic Harvest will build a 7,000 square meter vertical farm that will produce 1,000 tonnes of food a year.
🥗 Are you ready for the new food? - Oumph, algae and lab grown meat
We already know that meat production, trawling, and monoculture farming in mega formats are environmental culprits with an end date. But there is new climate-smart food being developed – and it's happening fast.
🌴 Substitute to palm oil brings hope for the rainforest
Canadian scientists develop an eco-friendly substitute for palm oil that is good for human health and will hopefully reduce deforestation of rainforests.
🥬 Vertical gardens push the future of agriculture towards the sky
Vertical gardens produce a large amount of fresh vegetables with minimal water consumption, without pesticides and genetic modification.
🍅 3 smart technologies that reduce food waste
10 billion tonnes of food is produced yearly, but one third of it is wasted. This has to stop, and there are several smart technologies that can help us with that.