This week's graphic compares the money given in subsidies to eight cotton farms in California to that spent on the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program supplying snacks to elementary [...]
FarmPlate.com is offering one year of free online marketing to farmers and small food-related businesses affected by Irene. Listing over 35,000 businesses across the country, FarmP[...]
The Village Voice Web Award was given on December 7, 2011 to Liza De Guia for her series “Food Curated.” Hurricane Irene Aftermath: The Story of Maple Downs Farm was a [...]
Windowfarms, the open source hydroponic farming system and social network, has raised over $257,307 dollars on Kickstarter. The Windowfarms Project's success is a clear indication[...]
The average American in 2009 consumed almost an ounce and a half of cheese a day, according to the Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System of the Economic Research Service (ERS)[...]
The National Research Council released a report today stating that "publicly posting enforcement and testing data...on the Internet could have substantial benefits, including the p[...]
Knowing where food comes from and how it was grown is a top priority in an increasing number of American households. But aside from costly technological solutions employed by larg[...]
A new study analyzes Allrecipe.com's 46,337 recipes, 1,976,920 user reviews, and data from about 530,609 users to understand the fundamentals of cooking and user preferences. [...]
San Francisco’s growing Food and Tech community gathered together to explore the state of the emerging sector at a Food Startups Meetup, organized by Matthew Wise, Q&A p[...]
The weather has not been kind to farmers this year. Extreme Thanksgiving, designed by Resource Media, visualizes how your Thanksgiving dinner may have been affected by the element[...]
An open call to filmmakers, designers, illustrators, web developers, photographers, anyone and everyone, to engage in the good work of producing savvy media about the "Agrarian Ren[...]
This week’s Infographic of the Week is a collection of data essential for those interested in the restaurant, shopping and meal preparation habits of those in the U.S.[...]
Last month, 14 survey reports were cut or reduced to save the USDA Statistical Research Unit $11 Million annually. At the same time, over the past few years there has been an explo[...]
Food+Tech Connect has created a simple time line (with lots of links) below to illustrate the State of the Farm Bill, and to explain that, in the end, the outcome of all this Congr[...]
No less than nine visualizations have hit the virtual airwaves in the past few months looking at the crisis in the Horn of Africa, each taking a slightly different approach to hung[...]
The UN's World Food Programme is now employing new web-based gaming techniques aimed at involving and educating those concerned with world hunger.[...]
Grocery list and recipe search startup Ziplist uses a cadre of advanced technologies to make shopping and marketing easier and personalized, including natural language processing, [...]
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[...]
The History Channel created an elegant infographic about Halloween (yes, elegant – look at the colors!) detailing everything from the number of children who trick or treat, t[...]
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[...]
Restaurants and startups have more in common than you might think. They face many of the same core challenges, such as building a business from the ground up, attracting and retain[...]