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Semifinalists Announced for $1 Million USD Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge

Semifinalists for the third annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge have been announced and 38 teams of innovators will now vie for a part of $1 million USD across three award levels – two Seeding The Future Grand Prizes ($250,000 each), three Growth Grants ($100,000 each), and eight Seed Grants ($25,000 each).

21 Sep 2023

Self-Sustaining Solar-Driven Sea Farms Could Help Address Looming Global Water and Food Shortages

The sun and the sea – both abundant and free – are being harnessed in a unique project to create vertical sea farms floating on the ocean that can produce fresh water for drinking and agriculture.

12 Sep 2023

Agricultural Technology Can Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Food System

As the Earth's human population grows, greenhouse gas emissions from the world's food system are on track to expand.

7 Sep 2023

Powered by Wind Energy and Hydrogen – Eco-Friendly Coffee Transport from Colombia

Coffee manufacturer Atinkana pursues a vision of sustainability: in the long run, they want to restore the original structure of the virgin forest in Colombia and make the soil more fertile.

21 Aug 2023

Inverse Approach to Food Web Modeling Offers New Insights into Ecosystem Stability

In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, authors Gabriel Gellner and Kevin McCann from the University of Guelph and SFI External Professor Alan Hastings (UC Davis) invert a classical approach to modeling food webs.

27 Jul 2023

Researchers Reveal the Rebound Effect of Food Waste Reduction

Reducing waste is one way to help combat hunger around the world, but stricter control over food loss and waste does not lead to better environmental outcomes, according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Colorado Boulder.

25 Jul 2023

TIPA Compostable Packaging Begins Local Production in The US

TIPA, a global leader in compostable packaging solutions for food and fashion announced today its partnership with two of the largest packaging manufacturers in the US, PPC Flexible Packaging and Clearview Packaging, to start using TIPA’s technology to produce compostable packaging for their respective customers.

From TIPA Compostable Packaging 28 Jun 2023

Don’t Wait, Desalinate: The Electrified Future of Clean Water

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is awash with the stuff, but water — specifically, the clean and drinkable kind — is inaccessible to billions of people.

27 Jun 2023

Study Highlights the Urgent Need for Robust Policies to Ensure Food Security and Resilience in Africa

The African continent faces a multitude of challenges, and food security is among the most pressing. New research by an international team of researchers sheds light on the challenges and opportunities facing the African continent in securing sufficient food supplies with a particular focus on rice.

21 Jun 2023

Study Focuses on How Crop Production Shocks are Affected by Variations in Planted and Harvested Areas

As the world faces more climate variability and extremes in the face of global warming, sudden environmental changes add an extra layer of stress to food production in the United States and around the world.

19 Jun 2023