Like many cities throughout the world, Accra has yoga studios, organic produce deliveries, and weekly green markets. But it also has toxic traffic fumes, clogged open drains, and plastic-lined beaches. Sustainable might feel like it’s for the middle class—but environmentalists are trying to change that.
Innovation for Sustainability
Future-Focused Policies Target Desertification
This year’s Future Policy Award, a joint initiative between the World Future Council and U.N. Convention on Combating Desertification, is honoring the world’s best policy solutions combating desertification and land degradation.
Swigging Cashew, Sorghum, and Sugarcane: the Ghanaian Entrepreneurs Competing for Ghana’s Drinkers
In a country that relies heavily on imports, Ghanaian entrepreneurs are taking matters into their own glasses, providing drinkers with tipples that help local farmers and national pride.
BCFN Award Recognizes Young Food System Researchers
This year’s winners are researching food security and interventions to improve mother/child health in Lebanon and integrated pest management to lower negative rice production impacts.
BCFN Eighth International Forum On Food and Nutrition
The BCFN Forum is an international platform bringing together policymakers, the scientific community, the private sector, and civil society to share knowledge, analysis, and best practices in sustainable food and agriculture.
A Seat at the Table of Austin’s New Inclusive Dinner Series
Austin-based Desert Me Not: Community Dinner series launched in June 2017 to inspire a collaborative effort between the organizations and individuals addressing food inequalities in Texas.
Artificial Intelligence in the Food Industry: Empowering Farmers’ Decision-Making
Can artificial intelligence save our food system? In the final piece of her three-part series, Chiara Cecchini investigates the main challenges and opportunities of this niche, exploring how we might use artificial brains leverage to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being.
Inside the Global Ten-Year Effort to Save Wild Relatives of Major Crops
The Crop Trust is scaling up a ten-year effort to catalog, conserve, and prepare the genetics of wild relatives of major food crops, called crop wild relatives (CWRs), in light of increasing stresses to agricultural systems including climate change and population growth.
Artificial Intelligence in the Food Industry: An opportunity, not a threat
Can artificial intelligence save our food system? In part two of her three-part series, Chiara Cecchini investigates the main challenges and opportunities of this niche, exploring how we might use artificial brains leverage to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being.
New Funding to Fight Food Waste in NYC
The Foundation for New York’s Strongest is launching a micro-grant program to help reduce the 650,000 tons of food waste generated by businesses in New York City each year.
Mayors Meet to Collaborate on Milan Urban Food Policy Pact
More than 400 mayors, city officials, and experts convened in Valencia, Spain from October 19 to 21, 2017 for the Third Annual Gathering of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP). Delegates from the 159 signatory cities engaged in debates, forums, and panels to exchange ideas and solutions to food-related issues relevant to urban environments.
Prize for Food Supply Chain Solution Startups: Applications Now Open
Food+City is accepting applications for innovative food supply chain solution competition, connecting early-stage business startups with investors. Applications must include a process, product, service, or technology that focuses on the system of getting food from the farm to the table.
Battling Agricultural Pests with Bats
In exchange for protection from predators, stable temperatures, and safe shelter, bats take care of some damaging pests for gardeners—no chemicals required.
Wasted, Redefined: Could Beer Be the Next Food Waste Solution?
Advocates say there are many reasons turning citrus into saisons and sourdough into session IPAs could make a major contribution to both reducing and raising awareness of food waste.
This Company is Using Food to Preserve Food and Fight Food Waste
Apeel Sciences have developed Edipeel, an invisible peel made from plant material which dramatically slows the rate of produce spoil and providing benefits to growers, distributors, and consumers.
BCFN Presents Eighth International Forum Live on Twitter
BCFN will present the details of its upcoming Eighth International Forum on Food and Nutrition live on Twitter on October 12, 2017, from 5:30am EST (11:30 CEST).
Agricultural Biodiversity: “Technically, Financially, and Politically” Feasible
Food Tank spoke with Marie Haga, Executive DIrector of the Crop Trust, about its new Food Forever Initiative.
Less and Better Meat is Key for a Healthier Planet
The University of Oxford’s Food Climate Research Network (FCRN) recently released a new report titled “Grazed and Confused” to examine whether grass-fed beef is good or bad for the climate but failed to account for the many environmental, animal welfare, and health benefits of well-managed, pasture-raised animals.
How (and Why) a Soap Company is Changing the Food System
The skin-care company is now investing a surprising amount of time and capital in projects that affect how people eat—from GMO labeling to promoting regenerative agriculture—putting themselves at the forefront of efforts to build a more sustainable food system.
Investment and Development Program for Food Startups: Applications Now Open
THRIVE is accepting applications for its Accelerator program, which provides opportunities for networking and investment to agriculture and food tech seed and growth companies.
