Food Tank is highlighting 101 stories of hope, innovation, and success, in creating a better food system.
Innovation and Technology
High School Students Launch Innovative Greenhouse Program
Maggie Bass and fellow environmentally-minded students at DC public schools are pushing for more greenhouses and curriculum focused on urban ecology.
Democratizing Innovation: Sharing Participatory Research – for Farmers by Farmers
Food Tank is excited to be collaborating with the McKnight Foundation during 2015 to crowd-source ideas, innovations, practices, and farmer-led solutions.
Empowering Farmers in Malawi through Entrepreneurship
Innovators in Malawi use technology to reduce food insecurity and increase income for rural smallholder farmers.
Better Together: How Collaboration and Market Access Improves Rural Communities
Collaboration and technology use will allow farmers’ to increase productivity, food security and to better understand their rights.
Democratizing Innovation
The Democratizing Innovation panel discussed the connection between industry and innovation, as well as the challenges of scaling up and scaling out innovative
Waste Not Want Not in the Food System
Panelists at the Food Tank Summit discussed the issue of food loss and waste, as well as innovative solutions to curb food waste.
The New Yuppies: How to Build a New Generation of Tech-Savvy Farmers
If the highest calibre of young people become farmers it will improve food security and help solve the unemployment crisis. Can tech make farming cool?
International Partnership Creating Biodiversity Database
Genetic information from global gene banks will finally be made public and searchable thanks to new international initiative.
