Innovation and Technology Archives – Page 2 of 35

In Nairobi, Kenya, one small company is making it easier for low-income families to get adequate protein in their diets via a simple innovation: selling individual pieces of chicken instead of whole birds.

Could Changing the Way Chicken Is Sold Reduce Malnutrition in Kenya?

“These guys are feeding the poor but their financing is very poor,” says Bonnie McClafferty, GAIN’s food value chain director. “They are pretty much falling through the cracks because they’re too small for all of the big lending and they’re too big for microfinance.”

Strategic foresight modeling is making the effects of climate change more predictable, reducing risk for smallholder farmers.

Betting the Farm: Big Data in Agriculture

At the intersection of climate change, agriculture, and economy, strategic foresight modeling looks ahead to inform better decisionmaking in agriculture.

New framework helps people of diverse backgrounds communicate by providing a common language in the agriculture system

Creating a Common Language to Solve Hidden Costs of Food System

Dr. Jes Weiglet, shares his thoughts on the role of the TEEBAgriFood framework in the creation of a common language in the agriculture system. He shows the hidden health care and environmental costs of cheap food, and how a collaborative effort can help realize the true cost of cheap food.

Food Tank interviews LeanPath’s CEO Andrew Shakman about the status of food waste today and his company’s efforts to encourage food waste prevention.

Tracking Food Waste With LeanPath CEO Andrew Shakman

Food Tank interviews LeanPath’s CEO Andrew Shakman about the status of food waste in our world today and his company’s efforts to encourage food waste prevention.

JUST, the Silicon Valley food tech startup, is changing food aid in Liberia, West Africa. Food Tank catches up with Just’s Taylor Quinn to find out how.

Tech Startup Changing Food Aid in Liberia

Taylor Quinn is the Emerging Markets Director for the US food-tech startup, JUST. Initially, JUST sent him to Liberia to start an educational project. Quinn soon found an opportunity to approach food aid in a totally new way. Now they are selling JUST Power Gari.

With regional recognition, CERAAS in Senegal plans to expand its efforts to adapt dry cereals to drought conditions throughout West and Central Africa.

West African Farmers Combat Climate Change

CERAAS earned Regional Center of Excellence recognition for its research on adapting dry cereals to drought conditions and its plans to expand into the rest of West and Central Africa.

In conversation with Food Tank, Dr. Medha Devare discusses the importance of data management for implementing the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture.

Building a Big Data Platform for Agriculture

The tools of Big Data hold a lot of promise for many industries including agriculture. But the expertise required to build a data management platform are still emerging. Dr. Medha Devare is an agronomist and data architect who is helping to lead the new CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture.