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July was a busy month as four incumbents acquired companies in the Food Tech & Media space, and ten companies raised over $315 million.[...]
15 Aug 2013
Beef Stakes, an art project by ITP student Sarah Hallacher, offers a sensory examination of 2011 beef production and consumption data from the top 4 U.S. producing states: Nebraska[...]
15 Jan 2013
The USAID recently held a hackathon focused on improving food security in developing nations. Many of the projects exhibited innovative uses of data, technology and mapping in orde[...]
08 Oct 2012
South By South West, the largest digital-interactive conference in the United States, offers a unique opportunity to connect with and learn from a diverse group of people using dig[...]
21 Aug 2012
A new report released Monday, “Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation,” by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health group of the National[...]
11 May 2012
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has recently released a new resource that will make its agricultural development strategy a whole lot easier. The [...]
27 Mar 2012
It is clear that there is a real need, and a real opportunity, to use data to tell the stories of the food movement and to support advancements in agriculture, advocacy, science an[...]
22 Mar 2012
Local Dirt and Locavore recently launched a free search widget and API for their farm, farmers market and CSA mapping data. There are over 35,000 United States and Canad-based farm[...]
16 Mar 2012
"Knowing where your food comes from" is arguably today's biggest food trend. But to Source Map CEO Leonardo Bonanni PhD, traceability is far more than a fad. [...]
16 Jan 2012
Several new initiatives have boasted high tech help for farmers in the face of climate change. But what do we currently know about how global warming will affect agriculture and c[...]
09 Jan 2012
Over the weekend the Farm Bill Hackathon brought together (in person and virtually) 120 designers, data scientists, developers, marketing professionals, food policy experts, and US[...]
05 Dec 2011
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[...]
26 Oct 2011
We had an amazing response - with more than 27 thought leaders responding to our question, and counting! The conversation will continue at Food+Tech Connect on Wednesdays, but be [...]
08 Oct 2011
By cultivating local connections among consumers and producers of fresh, sustainable food, Eat Well Guide helps you hack your diet through access to healthy locally grown food.[...]
28 Sep 2011
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[...]
25 Sep 2011
We think South By South West, the largest digital-interactive conference in the United States, offers a unique opportunity to connect with and learn from a cross-disciplinary grou[...]
26 Aug 2011
A heavy-hitting group of investors including Dave McClure, Ilya Fushman, William Rosenzweig, Aki Sano and Tom Cole came together at “The New Food Chain: Investing in Food Sta[...]
24 Aug 2011
One by-product of the artisanal food movement’s renaissance in the United States is that consumers are demanding more information about what’s in our food, where it co[...]
04 Aug 2011
Startups, data enthusiasts, researchers, and policy makers all have a reason to start caring about the USDA’s annual National Farmers Market Directory: more comprehensive dat[...]
18 May 2011
What would a design tool for curating meaningful ecological relationships look like? A decade ago, inspired by this question, I conceived of a web-based application for designing [...]
20 Apr 2011
In this five part series, Bob Wall breaks down how created the interactive mapping system for the food sovereignty, urban agriculture zoning, and food policy council maps. In part [...]
11 Apr 2011
John Reinhardt recently launched the urban agriculture zoning and food sovereignty ordinance mapson his blog Grown in the City. Among other things covered, Reinhardt and his brothe[...]
30 Mar 2011
Last week, Jas and I moderated a core conversation at SXSW entitled How Technology is Revolutionizing the Way We Eat. In this forum, the audience was encouraged to participate and [...]
30 Mar 2011
GOOD Food Editor Nicola Twilley launched GOOD magazine's new Food hub this past January. Through her editorial direction at GOOD, her blog Edible Geography, The Foodprint Project, [...]
24 Mar 2011
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