🍔 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.

Khumbu Muleya 2 min read

🐝 Biological control of elephants bearing fruits in Zimbabwe

Elephant beehive fencing protects the crops and provides safety for farmers. The honey from the bees also means an additional income, writes Khumbu Muleya, Warp News reporter in Zimbabwe.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

💡 Tips from Warp News: Food out of thin air & maps of progress

Ken Follett's new book, interactive maps that show the world's progress, food out of thin air, why people are so pessimistic about the future - and finally a way to know if the ice cream at McDonald's is broken.

Mathias Sundin 1 min read

🥩 Grows steak in space - that we also can eat on Earth

A steak produced in space - without killing a cow. Does that sound like science fiction? Well, now it's science fact.

Khumbu Muleya 1 min read

🌽 New farming method brings hope to farmers in Southern Africa

Pfumvudza is a conservation agriculture practice emphasizing intensifying production on a smaller unit area rather than spreading fewer inputs over a large piece of land.

Kent Olofsson 2 min read

🌾 An AI analysis shows that we can stop world hunger for two percent of the US defense budget

For $ 14 billion a year, we can make sure that almost everyone in the world can eat their fill.

Magnus Aschan 9 min read

🍔 From plant burgers that bleed to agricultural drones - this is FoodTech

The technology we use in our food production is becoming increasingly advanced. So advanced that we are now entering a new paradigm. Now, in the 21st century, we have therefore also begun to use a new word to describe this technique.

Linn Winge 2 min read

💧Drinking water made from sunlight and air

Solar powered panels pull water vapour out of the air and turn it into clean drinkable water.

Kent Olofsson 1 min read

Rooftop greenhouses can feed two percent of Montreal's population

Lufa Farms has built a 15,000 square meter greenhouse on the roof of the company's distribution center.

Per Soderstrom 1 min read

🌟 Swedish researchers have a new method for producing cooking oil - using electricity and carbon dioxide

Cooking oil produced using a completely new method may be a future alternative to palm oil. Development is ongoing.