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The UN's World Food Programme is now employing new web-based gaming techniques aimed at involving and educating those concerned with world hunger.[...]
This week’s pick goes to the good people at GOOD, whose “transparency department” produced an infographic looking at food insecurity in the U.S. This infographic [...]
For a community that has been plagued by heat, flooding, or tornadoes - climate change has no longer become a fad or some theory concocted by a team of scientists in a laboratory i[...]
While hacking and re-imagining the food system here in the U.S., can we interact with, learn from and collaborate with like-minds on a global scale to meet the needs of growing pop[...]
The USDA’s National Agricultural Library (NAL) announced that its Agricultural Thesaurus is now available as Linked Open Data, making possible connections with data from other agri[...]
In honor of the first national Food Day, Food+Tech Connect is highlighting 5 innovative ways technology is being used to improve access to fresh, local food. The following selectio[...]
The Public Health Program created an infographic to look at "The Two Sides of the Food Crisis," and to untangle the many factors causing the crisis.[...]
The recent cantaloupe contamination underscores the need for better data about our food’s journey from farm to table. With over 76 million cases of food borne illness, costin[...]
Entrepreneurial Opportunity: There is huge potential for creating recipe, restaurant nutrition and grocery shopping tools that cater to non-English speakers. Additionally, educati[...]
The recent “Food Dialogues” - organized and funded by the year old U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance - has a multi-million dollar annual budget, and the membership of some of the [...]
There are a lot of important lessons about building a successful online marketplace that can be learned from our experience working with Zaarly to source 20 lbs of grass-fed beef c[...]
People are increasingly aware of the pitfalls of our current food system. The question is, how do we fix it?[...]
In a 1984 retirement speech delivered to his colleagues at Cargill, my grandfather called for a renewed focus on the people agriculture serves.[...]
We live in a backward world. A world where it is strange to know where our food comes from. Foods that are grown and processed without adulteration have to prove it, while the use [...]
The future of urban agriculture is not vertical, nor even simply horizontal. It is distributed and networked throughout the city. In a growing number of cities, suburbs,and small t[...]
Today, Food+Tech Connect launches the first in a series of monthly interviews with leading food and tech investors. Over the past year I’ve spoken with 100+ food tech entrepreneurs[...]
Mac Magruder had his way, he would be able to control the grazing of his grass-fed herd by GPS. And while the technology for such a virtual fence is on the drawing board, Magruder[...]
Studiofeast's Mike Lee decided to have a little fun during the Hurricane lockdown, asking his twitter followers : "Tweet me your hurricane food items, I'll tweet you back a recipe.[...]
[Editors Note: This is the fourth story in a series about meat distribution. Food + Tech Connect will run these stories every Monday for the next several weeks.] Exactly how much m[...]
[Editors Note: This is the third story in a series about meat distribution. Food + Tech Connect will run these stories every Monday for the next several weeks.] In mid July, the En[...]
An interactive Google map created by development shop Small Farm Central has spruced up the new Color of Food directory locating farms and food institutions in communities of color[...]
*Jameson is a guest blogger for Food+Tech Connect and a middle school student at Sts. Philip and James School in Long Island, NY.* One in three Americans suffer from obesity[...]
The FAO hosted a tweet-up today on "Building a Food-Secure Future in the Horn of Africa." The discussion generated a fair amount of buzz from NGOs and interested world citizens ali[...]
Looks like Google is at it again, this time with a nifty weather layer you can choose to view in Google Maps. And while handy for city travelers, or in making conversation with you[...]
[Editors Note: This is the second story in a series about meat distribution. Food + Tech Connect will run these stories every Monday for the next several weeks.] “The question is, [...]
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