How Breweries Are Using Food Waste to Make Beer
At a crowded event at Tom Colicchio’s Craft restaurant in New York City in July, the theme was eating “ugly” fruits and vegetables to reduce food waste. Next to various cuts of meat from a whole...
View ArticleWhat Does Food Waste Have to Do with Hunger?
Critiquing charity work is a tricky business, especially when said charities are feeding hungry families. But in his new book, Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger...
View ArticleHow Robotics and Automation Will Affect Labor in the Food System
At an indoor farm in Silicon Valley, California, a mobile robot carries a tray of tiny plants—curly kale, Romaine lettuce, basil—to a robotic arm, which transplants them into a bigger tray to grow to...
View ArticleCan Fixing Supply Chains Work as a Nutrition Intervention?
In Kenya, a small company wanted to sell whole chickens, but the lower income household members near the shop couldn’t afford the up-front costs of an entire chicken nor would it keep in the absence of...
View ArticleChefs Serve Hospital Food That’s Better for Patients, Employees—and the Planet
At the New York University Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, one can order miso-glazed organic tofu on a bed of baby spinach with roasted artichokes for lunch. “This used to all be burgers and...
View ArticleCan (and Should) Pasture-Raised Eggs Scale Up?
Every morning in Everton, Missouri, brothers Amos and Kenneth Kropf let the chickens out of their barns within three hours of sunrise. On a sunny June day, the hens are restless, and it sounds like an...
View ArticleCould Changing the Way Chicken Is Sold Reduce Malnutrition in Kenya?
In Nairobi, Kenya, one small company is making it easier for low-income families to get adequate protein in their diets via a simple innovation: selling individual pieces of chicken instead of whole...
View ArticleCan Wasting Less Food Between the Farm and Consumer Improve Nutrition?
In Nigeria, one promising tactic for getting nutrient-dense fresh fruits and vegetables to communities with high rates of malnutrition starts with a simple swap: trading traditional raffia baskets for...
View ArticleHow a Small USDA Program Helps Small Farms and Local Food Economies
In 2012, Luisa Conrad and Lucas Farrell left their small herd of free-range goats at Big Picture Farm in Southern Vermont to attend the Fancy Food Show, a massive display of specialty foods where...
View ArticleHow Female Farmers Are Changing the Field
Women have been contributing to American agriculture (often invisibly) for centuries. Now, they’re stepping into the profession’s spotlight in a new way. When the National Young Farmers Coalition...
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