Nutrition & Wellness
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WhatsApp is changing how people grow and buy food in India
Agriculture in India is advancing in efficiency and sustainability with the help of WhatsApp. The messaging platform is allowing farmers to connect with their customers in the virtual market and severely improving communication for customers who demand pesticide-free vegetables. A recent report Read More...
Smart farming is ‘biggest global business opportunity’
With smart technology giving farmers the precise tools and information they need to produce more while using less, smart farming is becoming the biggest global business opportunity in the world. According to the United Nations Global Compact, more than 5,500 global leaders in private and public Read More...
No more meat: Plant-based food that looks and tastes like classic food
With the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence a whole new concept of food may soon radically change what we eat. Determined to develop smart plant-based food to save the planet, a group of young scientists in Chile is working on alternatives for a sustainable and meatless future. No Read More...
French law forbids food waste by supermarkets
This week, France has become the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food, forcing them instead to donate it to charities and food banks. Under a law passed unanimously by the French senate, as of Wednesday large shops will no longer bin good Read More...
Urban farming 2.0: Meet the Leafy Green Machine
Urban farming is changing the world of agriculture, giving city-dwellers the opportunity to raise their own crops in an efficient, natural way without having to rely on getting produce from a farm abroad. The only thing is that costs for starting a rooftop greenhouses are high. That’s why Brad Read More...
Organic agriculture can feed the world and be profitable for farmers
Critics have long argued that organic agriculture is inefficient, requiring more land to yield the same amount of food. But now, Washington State University researchers have concluded that feeding a growing global population with sustainability goals in mind is possible. Their review of hundreds of Read More...
Save the world, stop eating meat
There are few solutions that have such broad beneficial impact as eating less meat or even stop eating meat altogether. It takes about 40 million tons of food to eliminate the most extreme cases of world hunger, yet nearly 20 (!) times that amount of grain is fed to farmed animals every year to Read More...
Eight out of ten people in Sweden buy organic
In Sweden, sales of organic food increased by nearly 40 percent last year. Eight out of ten Swedes buy organic. What's more, experts say that the reason Swedes buy organic has changed. Where they once bought organic for environmental reasons, they now buy organic mainly for health reasons. Are the Read More...
Russia goes organic, as Putin takes firm stand against GMO agriculture
If you think of Russia, you may not think of organic agriculture right away. That is about to change. Russia could become the world’s largest supplier of organic foods, after taking a firm stand against genetically-engineered seeds. President Vladimir Putin has told the Parliament that the Read More...
Tackling food waste, brewery transforms unwanted bread into beer
A British brewery has found a way to transform unwanted bread into beer. The idea hit Tristram Stuart, founder of charity Feedback, when he read that UK households waste at least 24 million slices of bread a year. The Toast Ale brew, launching today, uses one slice of fresh surplus bread from Read More...