🍔 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.
🍅 Technology from TV sets gives greater harvests in greenhouses
Quantum dots can concentrate the parts of the spectrum in light that plants use for their photosynthesis.
🌾 UAE is investing $100 million in indoor farming as it tries to become more self-sufficient
As a region with little water, extreme heat, and not much farmable land, the United Arab Emirates imports 80% of its food. Indoor farming may help them go more local.
🍅 Growing crops in the desert using discarded mattresses
Scientists have succeeded in cultivating tomatoes, peppers, aubergines and herbs in the desert using discarded mattresses bound for landfill. The innovative system could be rolled out to every refugee shelter in the world, helping millions of people to thrive in barren landscapes.
🍲 This smart garbage disposal will compost your food scraps instead of sending them off to the sewer
Rather than shredding up your food waste and sending it to the sewers, this new device collects all of your food scraps for composting.
🌾 New Heavy-Lift Utility Drone For Agriculture, Logistics, and Infrastructure
John Deere, a world leader in advanced products and services for the agriculture industry, has teamed up with [https://press.volocopter.com/index.php/john-deere-and-volocopter-cooperate-on-cargo-drone-technology] German startup, Volocopter, to develop an aerial crop-dusting system called VoloDrone. VoloDrone was recently demonstrated at the global agricultural engineering tradeshow, Agritechnica [https://www.agritechnica.
A carbon-negative vodka company makes its beverage literally out of thin air
🍹 The chemist Stafford Sheehan worked on artificial photosynthesis that creates renewable fuel made from air. One of the fuels he was making was ethanol.
How 3D Printing, Vertical Farming, and Materials Science Are Overhauling Food
Food. What we eat, and how we grow it, will be fundamentally transformed [https://singularityhub.com/2019/10/20/the-technologies-changing-how-we-grow-distribute-and-consume-food/] in the next decade. What you consume, how it was grown, and how it will end up in your stomach will all ride the wave of converging exponentials, revolutionizing the
How “agritech” is helping Indian farmers
With a population of 1.3 billion and growing, India is home to hundreds of thousands of citizens dependent on farming for income and ever-increasing food demands. However, Indian farmers often struggle with losing crops to disease or achieving fair prices at the market. Companies are hoping to ameliorate this