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Digitally Empowering Workers, from Land to Sea

Before Envisible, the company’s co-founders developed an app that helped Indonesian fishers reduce their time at sea.

What Dinner Theater Must Learn From the Good Food Movement

How good food enhances taste, nutrition, and storytelling for a deeper theatrical experience.

Zimbabwe’s Backyard Gardens Flourish During Pandemic

During the COVID-19 lockdowns, residents in Mutare, Zimbabwe turned to backyard vegetable gardening to sustain their families and boost their incomes.

Traditional Knowledge and the Babassu Breakers

Using sustainable agriculture methods, a community of women breakers of the babassu fruit are reinventing the cycle of production of this crop in the northern region of Brazil.

How Can Consumers Eat Well Without Wrecking the Planet?

Can consumers eat well without wrecking the planet? How does plant-based meat fit in the picture? Experts unpack how dietary choices impact the food system.

Finding the “Missing Piece of the Puzzle” for a Sustainable Hog Farmer

After joining a network of small farmers and ranchers, Shaun Miller found the resources he needed to build a sustainable farming business.

18 Chefs Promoting Biodiversity For a Healthier Planet

These chefs are using their kitchens to help preserve the world’s biodiversity.

Can Transparent Supply Chains Empower Consumers?

Envisible uses sensor technology to record and verify the freshness of its seafood products.

Global Accelerator Accepting Applications for Food System Solutions

Good Food Makers is a partnership between Barilla’s accelerator group, BLU1877, and the San Francisco-based incubator KitchenTown.

Putting Hunger Prevention Back on the Global Agenda

Global hunger is worsening, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. U.N. FAO Chief Economist Maximo Torero identifies three concerning trends contributing to the crisis.

New Report Finds Consumers Are Increasingly Prioritizing Sustainability

A growing number of consumers want to see businesses adopt more sustainable practices.

UK Paludiculture Project Promotes Carbon Sequestration

Wet farming poses a promising solution for carbon sequestration as peatlands are given new life by Water Works project.

Supreme Court Rules Against California Farm Workers and Unions

Supreme Court decision could make it more difficult for union organizers to recruit farm workers in California.

New Book Addresses Hidden Costs of Food

A new book, the True Cost Accounting for Food: Balancing the Scale, provides a new way to understand the social, human, economic and environmental costs of the food system.

Research in Malawi Shows How Access Impacts Female Farmers

Malawi research shows that gender does not impact farm yields, access does!

How Fungi Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis

The Fungi Foundation is raising awareness about the essential role mushrooms and other fungi play.

Automated Harvester May Be a Peek into the Future

advanced.farm recently developed an automated harvester that can identify and harvest strawberries using a system of lasers, computers, and robotics.  “We are trying to bring agriculture into the 21st century,” Kyle Cobb, CEO of advanced.farm, tells Food Tank.  Cobb’s company…

Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Food Assistance

Food donations organizations are looking for innovative ways to reduce packaging waste and their environmental footprint.

Food Tank’s 2021 Podcast List

These 33 podcasts dive into all corners of the food world and offer a wealth of knowledge for the food-curious listener.

Grasslands Are Turning into Carbon Sources, Study Finds

Worldwide, grasslands absorb as much carbon as they emit, but climbing demand for meat and dairy and poor land management threaten this balance.

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