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At WeWorks across the world, startups not only share space; they share a role in shaping the future of food and a drive for transparency, says Tessa Price.
Podcast

New Ways to Sell and Produce Food Arising at WeWork

“Slaughter data suggest that up to 100 million hogs could be removed from China, potentially reducing production by 20 percent.”
Animals

Half the World’s Pigs Are Facing the Largest Animal Disease Outbreak in History

Aquaculture in Nigeria has greatly benefited organizations like CORAF, which utilizes its WAAPP initiative to train rural fish farmers.
Fishing

Financial Aid in Nigeria Creating a New Interest in Rural Fish Farming

Despite the jump in technology and the dropping costs, drones for precision agriculture need to provide useful information to small farmers too.
Agriculture

Making Drones Work for Small Farmers

Storing nearly 1 million seeds from genebanks worldwide in a cave at -18 degrees Celsius, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault ensures that if a genebank’s seeds vanish or fall into ruin, much the world’s biodiversity will still remain helping ensure food security.
Food Tank Lists

15 Crops Secured in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

SHARECITY100 maps global food sharing organizations to provide an inclusive and innovative solution to help build a sustainable food system.
Food Waste

Connecting Global Food Sharing Initiatives

While financial interests in the current input-intensive systems are responding to growing calls for agroecology with attacks on its efficacy, it is surprising that they are so ill-informed about the scientific innovations agroecology offers to small-scale farmers who are being so poorly served by “green revolution” approaches.
Sustainable Agriculture

Opinion | Agroecology as Innovation

Since 2014, Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Chef Sean Sherman has championed returning to indigenous foods favored by Native Americans before colonization. An award-winning cookbook, chef training, a food truck and public dinners help to spread this message.
Innovations in Nutrition Education

Restoring Native American Health with Indigenous Foods

Sweden's simple and straightforward approach to dietary recommendations makes it easy for citizens to make informed choices about their impact on the environment and their health. By integrating food and sustainability together on a national level, greener practices in production may emerge.
Public Health

Sweden’s Dietary Guidelines: “Eat greener, not too much, and be active.”

Through WAAPP, CORAF empowers rural Nigerian women by developing female employment at fisheries and through aquaculture jobs.
Fishing

Using Aquaculture Development to Encourage Women’s Employment in West Africa

“Slaughter data suggest that up to 100 million hogs could be removed from China, potentially reducing production by 20 percent.”
Animals
Half the World’s Pigs Are Facing the Largest Animal Disease Outbreak in History

“Slaughter data suggest that up to 100 million hogs could be removed from China, potentially reducing production by 20 percent.”

Aquaculture in Nigeria has greatly benefited organizations like CORAF, which utilizes its WAAPP initiative to train rural fish farmers.
Fishing
Financial Aid in Nigeria Creating a New Interest in Rural Fish Farming

Aquaculture in Nigeria has greatly benefited organizations like CORAF, which utilizes its WAAPP initiative to train people in rural fish farming.

Despite the jump in technology and the dropping costs, drones for precision agriculture need to provide useful information to small farmers too.
Agriculture
Making Drones Work for Small Farmers

Drones for agriculture are increasingly popular, but technology needs tailoring to small farmers’ needs and diverse crops if UAVs are to take off across the developing world.

Storing nearly 1 million seeds from genebanks worldwide in a cave at -18 degrees Celsius, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault ensures that if a genebank’s seeds vanish or fall into ruin, much the world’s biodiversity will still remain helping ensure food security.
Food Tank Lists
15 Crops Secured in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Storing nearly 1 million seeds from genebanks worldwide in a cave at -18 degrees Celsius, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault ensures that if a genebank’s seeds vanish or fall into ruin, much the world’s biodiversity will still remain helping ensure food security.

SHARECITY100 maps global food sharing organizations to provide an inclusive and innovative solution to help build a sustainable food system.
Food Waste
Connecting Global Food Sharing Initiatives

Researchers create a map of over 4000 food sharing initiatives to promote sustainable food systems.

While financial interests in the current input-intensive systems are responding to growing calls for agroecology with attacks on its efficacy, it is surprising that they are so ill-informed about the scientific innovations agroecology offers to small-scale farmers who are being so poorly served by “green revolution” approaches.
Sustainable Agriculture
Opinion | Agroecology as Innovation

While financial interests in the current input-intensive systems are responding to growing calls for agroecology with attacks on its efficacy, it is surprising that they are so ill-informed about the scientific innovations agroecology offers to small-scale farmers who are being so poorly served by “green revolution” approaches.

Since 2014, Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Chef Sean Sherman has championed returning to indigenous foods favored by Native Americans before colonization. An award-winning cookbook, chef training, a food truck and public dinners help to spread this message.
Innovations in Nutrition Education
Restoring Native American Health with Indigenous Foods

Since 2014, Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Chef Sean Sherman has championed returning to indigenous foods favored by Native Americans before colonization. An award-winning cookbook, chef training, a food truck and public dinners help to spread this message.

Sweden's simple and straightforward approach to dietary recommendations makes it easy for citizens to make informed choices about their impact on the environment and their health. By integrating food and sustainability together on a national level, greener practices in production may emerge.
Public Health
Sweden’s Dietary Guidelines: “Eat greener, not too much, and be active.”

Sweden’s simple and straightforward approach to dietary recommendations makes it easy for citizens to make informed choices about their impact on the environment and their health.

Through WAAPP, CORAF empowers rural Nigerian women by developing female employment at fisheries and through aquaculture jobs.
Fishing
Using Aquaculture Development to Encourage Women’s Employment in West Africa

Through CORAF and its WAAPP initiative, rural Nigerian women have the opportunity to work through aquaculture.

SHORT: For these leaders, the trigger for change in the food system lies in a conscious and passionate general public refusing to accept the status quo.
Podcast
Five Ways You’re Responsible for Change in the Food System: Food Tank in L.A.

For these leaders in L.A., the trigger for change in the food system is not startups, corporations, or policies—it is a newly conscious and passionate general public refusing to accept the status quo.

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