10 Oct FoodForward SA achieves global recognition for its food security efforts
Local NGO, FoodForward SA, beat out numerous contenders to secure the annual Arrell Global Food Innovation Award in the Community Category for 2019.
21 Feb Asia’s richest man is betting big on Silicon Valley’s fake eggs
While most start-ups struggle to raise the funds to turn their dreams into reality, Hampton Creek Foods CEO Josh Tetrick has convinced some of the world’s wealthiest people that his plant-based egg replacers are worth a serious punt. Li Ka-shing, widely billed...
31 Jan NYC’s first commercial farmer
Meet Viraj Puri, New York City's only commercial farmer. His farm, Gotham Greens, comprises 15,000 square feet of rooftop greenhouse, yielding roughly the same as a traditional 6-acre farm. As the planet’s population swells, particularly in major cities, scientists and public officials believe urban farms...
15 Jan World’s first urban commerical farm opens in Singapore
Less than 20 miles from Singapore's skyscrapers is a completely different set of high-rise towers. The first commercial-scale vertical farm recently opened in the tiny, densely populated city, with the aim of decreasing dependence on food imports.
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10 Jan Almost half of the world’s food thrown away, report finds
As much as half of all the food produced in the world – equivalent to 2bn tonnes – ends up as waste every year, UK engineers have warned in a new report.
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25 Nov Raising the dead: SA scientist honoured for drought-tolerant crop research
An earlier article on UCT's Professor Jill Farrant notes that in 40 years time, as people sit down to a bowl of cornflakes at breakfast time, they might just want to close their eyes and offer thanks to this South African scientist....
25 Nov Raising the dead: SA scientist honoured for drought-tolerant crop research
An earlier article on UCT's Professor Jill Farrant notes that in 40 years time, as people sit down to a bowl of cornflakes at breakfast time, they might just want to close their eyes and offer thanks to this South African scientist....