🍔 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.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Milk without cows
A factory in Denmark can replace nine percent of Danish cows. Milk and other dairy products can be produced in bioreactors by precision in the fermentation process. Foodtech companies all over the world are now working hard to create a future where cows become redundant.
🥦 Huge benefits from growing broccoli shaded by solar panels
Solar panels take up a lot of space and farmers usually want to grow crops on the surface where solar panels would work best. Now, scientists have found that a certain vegetable thrives in the shade from the panels. This vegetable is broccoli.
🌱 Artificial photosynthesis - grow food without sunlight
Researchers have developed a method for growing crops without sunlight, through artificial photosynthesis. In some cases, efficiency increased by 18 times, and the method is expected to revolutionize the management of climate change as well as space exploration.
🥬 Ocean vegetables could help tackle the global food crisis
A farm in Scotland is using sea water from the Atlantic Ocean to grow its vegetables. The project is led by Glasgow based startup Seawater Solutions and they have figured out a way to replace freshwater with saltwater to grow food.
🌒 Researchers successfully grow crops in lunar soil
Researchers at the University of Florida have conducted research that could lead to simplified logistics to lunar colonies and potentially agriculture in harsher regions of the earth.
🥩 Mushroom protein could halve deforestation
If we'd replace some of the beef we currently eat with mushroom protein, we'd reduce carbon dioxide emissions and halve deforestation by 2050.
🌾 Super wheat can grow in salty soil
A new variety of wheat can grow in saline soils and gives better yields than today's wheat variety.
🤖 This robot chef can "taste" the food
A robot that can test how the taste changes as we chew will be able to cook tastier food tailored to each person's preference.
🌱 Seaweed - the next generation biofuel?
In Sweden, a seafarm wants to show how seaweed can become a future food necessity and a possible resource for plastics and biofuel by growing it in abundance all year round.