🍔 Food Tech
A lot of innovation is going on in food tech, making food cheaper, more nutritious, better tasting and with less emissions during production. Here you'll find articles about AI, sensors and IoT, big data, digital biology, precision farming, cell-grown meat, GMO and automation.
🌴 Substitute to palm oil brings hope for the rainforest
Canadian scientists develop an eco-friendly substitute for palm oil that is good for human health and will hopefully reduce deforestation of rainforests.
🥬 Vertical gardens push the future of agriculture towards the sky
Vertical gardens produce a large amount of fresh vegetables with minimal water consumption, without pesticides and genetic modification.
🍅 3 smart technologies that reduce food waste
10 billion tonnes of food is produced yearly, but one third of it is wasted. This has to stop, and there are several smart technologies that can help us with that.
🐝 Biological control of elephants bearing fruits in Zimbabwe
Elephant beehive fencing protects the crops and provides safety for farmers. The honey from the bees also means an additional income, writes Khumbu Muleya, Warp News reporter in Zimbabwe.
💡 Tips from Warp News: Food out of thin air & maps of progress
Ken Follett's new book, interactive maps that show the world's progress, food out of thin air, why people are so pessimistic about the future - and finally a way to know if the ice cream at McDonald's is broken.
🥩 Grows steak in space - that we also can eat on Earth
A steak produced in space - without killing a cow. Does that sound like science fiction? Well, now it's science fact.
🌽 New farming method brings hope to farmers in Southern Africa
Pfumvudza is a conservation agriculture practice emphasizing intensifying production on a smaller unit area rather than spreading fewer inputs over a large piece of land.
🌾 An AI analysis shows that we can stop world hunger for two percent of the US defense budget
For $ 14 billion a year, we can make sure that almost everyone in the world can eat their fill.
🍔 From plant burgers that bleed to agricultural drones - this is FoodTech
The technology we use in our food production is becoming increasingly advanced. So advanced that we are now entering a new paradigm. Now, in the 21st century, we have therefore also begun to use a new word to describe this technique.