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Innovation and Technology

Oliver Moore of Paris-based NGO, ARC 2020, discusses the digitization of agriculture and the power relations between corporates and agroecological farmers.
Innovation and Technology

Opinion | Digitization, Technology, and Farming—Who’s Got the Power?

From Nepal, to Kenya, and to the United States, women working in integrated pest management are celebrating science—and themselves.
Food Tank Lists

Celebrating Women in Science: Eight Women Breaking Ground in Agriculture

The Refresh Working Group joins U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to discuss the role of technology—good and bad—in the food system, from soil to supper.
Podcast

Technology May Change The Entire Food System For Good and Bad: Refresh

Climate-resilient grains like pearl millet and sorghum can help subsistence farmers in Chad enjoy increased crop yields and better self-resilience.
Crops and Commodities

Millet and Sorghum are Climate-Smart Grains for Farmers in Chad

Food Tank is highlighting 19 organizations using apps to make a difference in their communities, rerouting food from landfills to hungry neighbors.
Food Waste

19 Organizations Turning Food Waste Into Food Justice

Nile Valley Aquaponics is unveiling new facilities and plans in the coming months, creating a community around food through aquaponics.
Nutrition
Urban Farming Organization Visualizes a Franchise Model to Produce Fresh Fish and Vegetables

In Kansas City, Missouri, Nile Valley Aquaponics is producing 100,000 pounds of local, fresh food to support the community, unveiling expansions on their urban oasis later this year.

Check out these inspiring individuals working to reduce food waste.
Food Tank Lists
28 Inspirational People Working to Reduce Food Waste

With food waste a growing global concern, Food Tank has created a list of 28 individuals putting their skills to the task of reducing food waste.

One man’s food waste is another man’s potential meal. This is the philosophy behind these 15 food waste apps.
Food Tank Lists
16 Apps Preventing Food Waste

Organizations and individuals around the world develop smart mobile solutions to fight food waste. Food Tank has compiled a list of 15 food waste apps that change the way our food system works.

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.
Innovation and Technology
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.
Innovation and Technology
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
Interviews
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.
Interviews
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.
Interviews
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.
Climate Change
Climate Smart Agriculture Techniques Spread Beyond Senegal with New Regional Center

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.
Interviews
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.

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