On the first anniversary of the U.N. Food Systems Summit, it’s important to ask: Was it all talk and no action? Can the beautiful food system transformation plans come to life?
Climate Resilient Practices Key to Future of Livestock
Climate resilient practices are essential to ensuring the health and safety of livestock as heat waves increase in frequency and severity.
U.N. Food Systems Champions Discuss Public Research for the Public Good
During a panel hosted by Food Tank, the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, and IFAD, experts discuss the need to increase public research engages with and addresses the needs of communities.
The Struggle to Halt Food Loss and Waste Amidst the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting inequalities in food production and distribution, resulting in both alarming rates of hunger and massive food loss and waste.
15 Organizations Creating Healthier Soil to Save the Planet
This World Soil Day, Food Tank is recognizing that healthy soil is important for more than just crops — soil can also trap carbon and combat climate change.
21 Projects Democratizing Data for Farmers
These advances in AI and Big Data are making it easier and less laborious for farmers to understand small occurrences and larger trends on their farms.
Under Climate Change: the Policy Catalyzing Transformation
According to the panel of experts, food policy addressing GHG emissions, waste, and dietary patterns need this to transform food under climate change.
A New Global Agriculture: Using Big Data to Bring Farmers Together
For centuries, farmers have been isolated—geographically, economically, technologically. Big Data has the potential to transform agriculture in the 21st century and create a new global commons for agricultural knowledge that could allow farmers from Missouri to Myanmar to learn from one another.
Crop Modeling May Help Pave the Way to Increased Food Availability
Crop modeling is just one form of agricultural research that may benefit from the unified approach of the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture.
Bigger Data, Smaller Farms: The Role of Big Data in Sustainable Intensification
Sustainable intensification is one of the areas of agricultural research that is being transformed by Big Data. Through initiatives like the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, researchers are helping farmers create complex accounting systems for their farms and increase productivity while decreasing the environmental impact of farming.
