Nutrition & Wellness
From learning about the health benefits of turmeric to staying up-to-date with the latest superfood trends, discover the best diet tips to improve your health.
Can environmentally focused activist shareholders transform animal-based agriculture?
When Tyson Foods invested this week in a company that makes veggie burgers, it shocked industry observers. After all, Tyson isn’t just a company that dabbles in meat — it’s America’s largest processor and seller of all things carnivorous. Indeed, there seemed to be Read More...
PepsiCo sets global target for sugar reduction
PepsiCo has set a target for reducing the amount of sugar in its soft drinks around the world as part of a suite of goals aimed at tackling problems ranging from obesity to climate change. The New York-based company will announce on Monday that by 2025 at least two thirds of its drinks will have Read More...
India's postmen to deliver custom-made weather reports to farmers
Seeing that less than half of India’s total farmland is irrigated, preparing the cropping cycle according to the weather is essential. But if the weather forecasts are inaccurate, it can result in huge losses and low income for farmers. That’s why the government is investing some $60 million on Read More...
Could this ancient farming method save farmlands effected by climate change?
In the last few decades, the ancient agriculture technique known as dry farming was practiced only by a quirky few traditionalists concerned more about tasty produce than saving water. But now as climate change starts to grip farming lands such as those in California, more farmers and winemakers Read More...
Vegan chefs show how to make even a carrot the centerpiece of a meal
V Street, the new cookbook by married chefs Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby, features recipes inspired by global street food. Jacoby says the right techniques can coax "amazing flavor" out of Read More...
This company helps eliminate food waste by selling leftovers for almost nothing
BuffetGo, a company designed to help eliminate waste by selling restaurant food before it’s thrown out, has launched in Los Angeles. The company purchases whatever food is left at a participating restaurant before it closes on that day; BuffetGo customers can then purchase Read More...
An experimental farm on the river Thames is changing the way city-dwellers eat
On a jetty jutting into the River Thames, they’ve founded Farmopolis, a space to explore how this could work. The project forms the beginnings of a social, technological, and agricultural prototype for urban farming. By Johanna Derry VICE Oct 3, 2016 Excerpt: Farmopolis is a project Read More...
Can agroecology feed the world and save the planet?
You wouldn’t necessarily know it, but right now Africa is facing a food crisis. With Brexit, global terror attacks, the war in Syria and the seemingly endless string of sporting fixtures vying for our collective attention in 2016 so far, the fact that up to 50 million people across east and Read More...
Eating less junk food makes you healthier… and saves the environment
More about food and health: It doesn’t serve your health when you consume foods and drinks that don’t provide nutrients to your body. You know. What you may not know is that, according to new research, junk food contributes between 33 and 39 percent of the food-related use of water, land, Read More...
The world doesn't need GMOs to feed Earth's growing population, report says
This is not the first report that debunks the claim of GMO companies like Monsanto that claim that only industrial agriculture can feed the Earth’s swelling population. But this is a message that needs to be repeated again and again: There are healthy and environmentally friendly ways to feed the Read More...