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Novel Food Sanitization Technique Makes Food Safer to Consume

Penn State researchers demonstrate how a light-based food sanitization technique could make food safer to consume.

22 Aug 2022

New Model Reveals Wide-Ranging Impacts of Climate Change on Australia’s Food Supply Chains

New University of Sydney research published in Nature Food today has modelled the wide-ranging impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on Australia's food systems and supply chains, identifying potential cascading repercussions including job and income loss as well as a loss in nutrient availability and diet quality.

22 Aug 2022

Climate-Resilient Breadfruit Could be a Solution to the Worsening Global Hunger Crisis

In the face of climate change, breadfruit soon might come to a dinner plate near you.

18 Aug 2022

Exposure to Extreme Heat Worsens Malnutrition Among Young Children

Exposure to extreme heat increases both chronic and acute malnutrition among infants and young children in low-income countries – threatening to reverse decades of progress, Cornell University research finds.

26 Jul 2022

Floods and Climate Change Incentive for Farms to Diversity Outside Agriculture

The agricultural sector will increasingly need to adopt new technologies and entrepreneurial flair to provide secondary income, along with more flexible land use to combat weather extremes such as floods and drought, according to new research.

8 Jul 2022

Study: Transport Causes 19% of Global Food System Greenhouse Gas Emissions

In 2007, 'locavore' - a person who only eats food grown or produced within a 100-mile (161km) radius - was the Oxford Word of the Year.

22 Jun 2022

FSU Study Could Help Reduce Millions of Tons of Food Waste from Bananas

New research from Florida State University won't only help you nail the timing for your banana bread -; it could also help reduce millions of tons of food waste from the widely cultivated fruit.

12 May 2022

Cultivated Meat to Address the Rising Demands for Meat Products and Their Environmental Consequence

One of the flagship items on any restaurant menu, from local diners to Michelin-starred restaurants, is almost always ‘steak.’ However, in an environmentally-conscious society, it is essential to find an alternative to overcome the environmental issues that stem from the ever-increasing demands for meat-based products.

9 May 2022

Eco-Friendly Burgers: Substituting Beef with Microbial Protein

Researchers claim that replacing meat products with a microbial protein - a meat alternative produced in fermentation tanks - could reduce deforestation by 50% by the year 2050.

5 May 2022

Ocean Organism Could be Key to Animal-free Meat

A fungus-like microbe taken from the pristine waters of South Australia could prove to be a vital ingredient in making everything from nutritional supplements, medicines and biofuels to animal-free meat, according to Flinders University researchers.

5 May 2022