🍔 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.
🤖 This robot chef can "taste" the food
A robot that can test how the taste changes as we chew will be able to cook tastier food tailored to each person's preference.
🌱 Seaweed - the next generation biofuel?
In Sweden, a seafarm wants to show how seaweed can become a future food necessity and a possible resource for plastics and biofuel by growing it in abundance all year round.
🌾 Improved crops without genetic modification
A newly developed way to improve crop quality without any genetic modification might make the promise of scientific advancement in food production come sooner.
🥗 Industrial process water becomes "algae food"
Process water from, for example, herring factories can be used as fertilizer for land-based algae cultivations and both increase the protein content of the algae and make them grow faster.
🥓 There's a new meat in town
Not ready to give up on meat yet? Don't worry, there are many options. Sustainable meat, fake meat, cultured meat: technology offers healthy and climate-friendly "meaty" alternatives in the plant-based diet of the future.
🍺 Guinness to become more eco-friendly
A pilot project will show whether more sustainable cultivation of barley can provide more environmentally friendly beer without compromising the profitability of growers.
👊 "My dream is to help everyone grow locally and sustainably"
Hamza Qadoumi has always been curious and liked to solve problems. But he also has a strong interest in nature. This led to Ecobloom whose mission is to create tools for smarter cultivation.
👊 Pernilla Westergren makes dog food from insects: "I want to start a dog food revolution"
Pernilla Westergren changed careers from investment banking to selling dog food made from insects. That reduces the dogs climate paw prints and is also better for their health.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Now farming is moving indoors
Vertical farming is growing fast. But, the market is still in its infancy and the opportunities are huge. Read up on how and why farming is moving indoors.