A new super-efficient vertical farming system is helping increase food security and reduce the climate impact of food production for the 5 million residents of crowded Singapore.
Food service companies serve millions of meals a day in the US in a process that's extremely wasteful and carbon-intensive. Now one company has set its sights on revolutionizing the industry.
Supporters say a novel way of growing rice and other crops can quadruple yields with less seed, water and fertilizer. It could be an important hedge against climate pressures--if the gains are real.
What’s for lunch? It’s a question almost everyone asks every day, but also one that most of us don’t have to think much about. But climate change will have a big impact on what's for lunch (and dinner and breakfast) around the world.
In China, where ordering more food than you can eat is seen as a status symbol,t a new grassroots "Clean Your Plate" campaign is starting to change the way people think and eat.
Keeping our growing number of selves fed (sustainably, equitably, healthily) is way more than just a technical challenge. But the technical stuff does matter, too.
The vital staple cassava is one of the most climate-resilient crops around, but it’s also highly susceptible to diseases. Scientists in Uganda hope to distribute a free, virus-resistant GMO variety, but it’s run into a buzzsaw of hostility.
In Qatar, a team of visionaries has set out to prove that even in the world's most inhospitable places, sunlight, salt water and CO2 can be transformed into energy, fresh water and food.
In a country where eating meat is considered a sign of prosperity, veganism is on the rise as more Chinese consider the environmental impact of what they eat.
It's an almost climate-proof method of raising fish and vegetables cheaply using very little space, water and chemical inputs. Now one man is determined to make it work in Africa.
Economist and food-policy researcher Shane Bryan says along with producing better tools, we need to foster environments in which those tools are truly useful.
