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Rebecca Morris grew up in Menorca and remembers the joy that she felt going on adventures in the wilds of...
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ALGES is improving living conditions of women wounded in the El Salvador civil war through climate-resilient farming. El Salvador...
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La Caravana Escuela sets up blacksmithing schools in remote communities and sets off a future-fixing chain reaction. At over...
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In the Brazilian Amazon, tiny native seeds are saving forests, communities, and the climate. Any gardener will tell you...
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Few chefs have the vision and skill to sow 223 varieties of native potatoes on their Andean restaurant’s high-altitude farmland,...
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The B-Lines project supports the small wild inhabitants of the British landscape by forging new pathways and regenerating an interconnected...
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Beetime connects socially engaged art with natural beekeeping practices to bring together community, scientists and artists in their southern Spanish...
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Eixarcolant is propelling us towards a future in which eating native “weeds” and cultivating local varieties of vegetables and forgotten...
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LA Green Grounds makes the world more edible one garden at a time, and in doing so turns urban food...
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The Source farms in harmony with the land, its flora and fauna, and its local community. In the Saint...
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Closed-loop, regenerative, urban agriculture: Good Neighbor Gardens is farming the city and feeding San Diego one garden at a time....
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Agriledger is turning the supply chain upside down. Now, smallholder mango farmers in Haiti can sell their produce directly in...
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Brooklyn Grange Farm is one of the largest rooftop farms in the world, and from high up in New York...
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Cycloponics breathes new life into France’s underground car parks where they farm organic mushrooms, endives and microgreens right under the...
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Australian start-up Flow is bringing beekeeping to the masses with their Flow Hive that reduces stress both for bees and...
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Copenhagen is home to Europe’s largest vertical farm, Nordic Harvest, that uses renewable energy and applies robotic technology in innovative...
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Duckweed grows incredibly fast, can produce eight times more protein per hectare than soy and may be a big help...
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In Catalonia, the Associació Obrador Xisqueta creates awareness of a protected native breed while also promoting ethical fashion. Petite,...
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Safi Organic’s decentralized production of organic fertiliser is helping hundreds of farmers to improve crop yields while also teaching the...
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Solar Foods is one of those mind-blowing future-food incubator stories that can save any dinner conversation - and perhaps even...
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GROW fuses art and science, using lighting design to improve crop resilience and production while inspiring us to take a...
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GreenWaves’ vertical, regenerative underwater farming reduces ocean acidity, absorbs carbon, provides nutritious food and just might create a ton of...
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The Bambara groundnut has been farmed for centuries, but if you don’t live in sub-Saharan Africa it is nearly impossible...
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Flowers, vegetables, tea plants, fragrant herbs and fruit trees blossom next to the train platforms used daily by hundreds of...
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Mexican startup Griyum produces edible cricket flour to help combat malnutrition, provide better economic opportunities to farmers and help the...
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If we use local products, we benefit our farmers, ranchers and artisans. This is precisely what’s at the core of...
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An ethical women's enterprise is creating vegan soaps that use plastic-free packaging made from a natural waste material that is...
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Two Mexicans have created an eco-friendly leather made from cactus to help save the environment. They want to reduce animal...
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Nature is the new gold! Save your local forest and earn money with this new stock exchange for biodiversity. ...
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Wave power is being harnessed to grow beautiful artificial coral reefs for coastal protection and marine life. Coastlines and...
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Forget Google! Ecosia is a search engine that uses profits to fund reforestation projects in the world's most threatened biodiversity...
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If a tree falls in the forest, and there's nobody around to hear, does it make a sound? It does when the trees have electronic...
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In the least mechanised place on earth, tractors and farming machinery are expensive. This agritech app connects smallholder farmers to tractor owners...
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Many students ponder what they will do after university, but fewer find that passion and follow it to the point...
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In an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
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In the Greek islands, a community of 'water allies' is working to solve the problems of water supply, wastewater and...
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This smart irrigation system helps farmers reduce their water footprint, control soil conditions and grow better crops with data and...
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This is how you grow vegetables in the Sahara – by piping seawater from the Red Sea across the sands to produce...
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These low-cost wooden drones can reforest burned forests ecologically – and fast. Sowing 100 seeds per second using drones...
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A forest is emerging from the Egyptian sands to fight desertification – thanks to wastewater. No, this is not a...
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Tunisian water resources are especially scarce. Thanks to a farmer’s daughter, water recycling can be a valid solution for water preservation. ...
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A startup in India is using AI to address the growing urban problems of water loss and pollution, by predicting...
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No one can change the world – or in this case, the fashion industry – on their own. Which is where Sustainable...
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Come rain or shine, knowing weather patterns is pure gold when it comes to food security. But in the tropics, you...
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Environmental activists Zakiya Mckenzie and Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley want you to go outside and embrace the countryside, to take in all...
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Finger lickin’ crispy cell-based chicken is going straight from bioreactor to table in the world’s first lab-grown meat restaurant. ...
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What links Arcade Fire, a marching band in rural Haiti, goats and the circular economy? Régine Chassagne, from the...
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More and more people are ditching the supermarket in their quest for seasonal local goods. La Ruche qui dit Oui...
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Let us transport you to central Chile to a small farm tucked way in the coastal hills. This is a story...
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Africa is building a big wall of trees through 11 countries, just under the southern edge of the Sahara, to...
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One third all all food is wasted; which is staggering. But there is a fun way to reduce this. The...
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The Save The Chicken app is providing a digital solution to the very analogue chicken mortalities happening in Africa. Early...
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Fibreshed are celebrating the regenerative possibilities of a fashion system that operates close to home, where the clothes we wear...
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Most farmers in advanced economies take advantage of a wealth of agricultural information services to support farm management and increase...
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A pioneer in Argentina’s anti-straw movement, Juani Gerardi, founder of Bioconexión, was way ahead of state authorities in banishing unfantastic...
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Do you rule out peppers because they're too twisted? Unconsciously, most of us discard some fruits and vegetables in the...
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While Colombian roaster Devoción has sourced specialty arabica beans directly from independent farmers and paid more than the fair-trade asking...
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Argentine celebrity chef Narda Lepes has long championed a plant-based diet at Narda Comedor in Buenos Aires and now she’s...
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With 51,330 species spread across Colombia, the world’s second-most biodiverse country creates an immense pantry for chef Leo Espinosa and...
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Mirazur, a Michelin three-star restaurant located in Menton on France’s Côte d’Azur, has long applied a holistic biodynamic agriculture philosophy...
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Driven by a firm commitment to create greener cities and a more sustainable future, Urban Green Club designs, manufactures and...
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Ivory Coast and Ghana produce about 60% of the world’s cocoa, but in the small state of Liberia, farmers cannot...
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"The world needs 70 percent more food right now and there are two ways to address that: deforest to create...
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The simple act of riding a bike helps rural families with limited resources in Mozambique to irrigate their family plots....
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Earth Logic is a simple yet transformative call to the fashion sector: to put earth first, pledging loyalty to the...
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Are you helping to build a fair fashion sector?Are you a fashion-lover working on ways to reimagine how we produce what we...
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The April morning sun beats down on Kontagora, a lively market town in central Nigeria. Generators hum as milling machines...
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When it comes to our fruit and vegetables, we’re used to supermarket perfection, but a misshapen carrot or heart-shaped potato...
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“There's an Eskimo on a mass of ice, a Bedouin in the desert and a Polynesian at sea. All three of...
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"Our mission is to end the sixth mass extinction. Humans have driven it and humans have the power to reverse it."...
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If life gives you good lemons, pass them to your neighbour... Globally over one third of all the food we...
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Get ready to enter a surreal Noah's Ark of seeds, because deep inside a mountain on a remote island in...
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As climate change shrinks Andean glaciers and brings water shortages, two Quechua sisters are building traditional ‘sacred’ reservoirs to harvest...
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Dog detectives are using their pooch powers of perception to save ailing citrus groves from a devastating crop disease that causes mottled...
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Some say the word ‘Bages’ comes from Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. This probably isn’t true, but wine has...
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The use of forest biomass to generate heat energy is huge in Europe: trunk, bark, branches, needles leaves and roots...
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Decades ago, a man bought an old stone mill to feed his family with traditional cereals. One day, his daughter...
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The idea of transforming organic dairy waste into biogas is not a novel one, but this is certainly the cheesiest....
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Dutch investigative journalist Teun van de Keuken was shocked when he discovered that much of the world’s chocolate production has...
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Butterflies don’t just look beautiful, they have an unusual trait. They are nature's way of showing us the effects of...
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Thought by some to be the original Garden of Eden, Iraq’s marshlands were the birthplace of agriculture. After the 1991 Gulf War,...
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Transformed poachers trained as 'blasters' are helping keep elephants from raiding farmers' crops in Zambia – using non-lethal chilli powder...
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“Food is a central part of the Filipino life. For the people of an agricultural country such as the Philippines...
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"We love Patagonia – it’s one of the wildest places left on Earth, where there’s a chance to protect ecosystems...
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Imagine an organism that feeds you, heals you, reveals secrets of the universe and could help save the planet. Fungi, are...
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One of the planet’s smallest and fastest-growing organisms is helping inventor-engineer Julian Melchiorri to think macro by playing with the micro;...
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“It’s like watching YouTube: you start on one thing and then an hour later you’re watching something completely different.” Distinguished...
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“The forest is like a mother. She gives us everything we need to live comfortably." Timbaktu Collective is empowering villagers...
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Toast Ale is the UK’s first beer produced with bread. The award-winning craft beer uses surplus fresh bread from bakeries and sandwich...
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“We are trying to demonstrate that it is possible to build projects that combine sustainable economic activity with social inclusion...
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“The peasant way of life is one of the most precious things we have on this planet to shine a...
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“Small Food Bakery is a journey to try and build a localised, non commodity food system, perhaps masquerading as a...
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Excited by biofertilisers? Want to know about biodynamic vines, Catalonian chickens and compost tea – or get down and dirty...
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"Trees are the ultimate act of nature. They are the matrix of everything that is living, everything that gives life...
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Many children resist new foods, and encouraging them to make healthy choices about what to eat can look like an...
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A revolutionary supermarket is proving that Brighton really does rock, by making it easier to be a good consumer. Rather...
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"I recognise the power of the chef in today’s world. Traditions and cultural connections should be front and centre – chefs...
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As the world's population continues to grow, industry has begun to affect even the most remote of places. As well...
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"These sneakers were designed with silk sourced from the Brazilian producer Hermès uses." So ran the Vogue headline in an article...
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"Imagine if you could take billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, safely, effectively, economically and...
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Innovative outdoor brand Houdini Sportswear is creating sportswear so pure that you can eat it. Based in Sweden, with a passion...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind drunk...
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Scott Nelson wants to fully embed a a resource-based economy inside existing market capitalism, just by issuing credit to people...
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Can wool change lives? It can in Buenos Aires, where members of the Villa 31 cooperative turn it into colourful...
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Zaytoun helps to support Palestinian farmers through fair trade instead of aid, sourcing sustainably grown olive oil and other delicacies...
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In the extreme north of India, the harsh mountain area of the Trans-Himalaya is experiencing acute water shortages; the desert's...
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When you buy local you are ensuring that your favourite shops, artisans and farmers can continue to do what they...
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Located in Bermondsey, London inside an old school and made from recycled salvage from a local theatre company, decommissioned bio...
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With 26 billion trees currently burned down annually and only 15 billion replanted, we need millions of trees to combat the effects of...
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Although farming still seems like an un-cool career option to many young people, Mmabatho Morudi wants to change the face of agriculture: "It’s...
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Rivers move. Fires occur. Cities grow. Forests shrink. Icecaps melt. Ecosystems change. That's why Robbie Schingler founded Planet, with the mission...
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Within a hidden mad professor's lab in Berlin-Kreuzberg, one team is on a mission to feed a rapidly expanding population,...
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Do you know where your handbag or tuna comes from? Every product tells a story. And knowing more about where products...
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Mobile Internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of knowledge for rural populations in developing countries. But not every one...
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Submitted by you: Communities for Development was created when engineers Iñigo Ruiz Apilánez and Sandra Díaz returned from a stint...
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With rice being a major staple of diet in Japan, agriculture is a massively important industry. Japanese IT firm OPTiM and Saga University...
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Our friends the bees are in scarily rapid decline worldwide due to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a phenomenon caused by pesticides, parasites,...
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The world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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Harvesting edible insects in desktop hives, LIVIN Farms has developed a plug-in kitchen appliance for raising mealworms on your desktop as a...
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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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Now you really can be a tree... when you’re six feet under. It might not seem so, but two Italian...
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When we think of NASA, we think of sending man to the moon – or Mars – but the space agency is...
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Chicken Town have come up with a recipe to reduce obesity in school children by offering an alternative to the...
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A vegetable factory that plans to open in Kyoto in 2017 will be the first farm to be entirely run by...
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Spoiler Alert: In The Martian (2015), a stranded astronaut farms potatoes to survive on the Red Planet – and Matt...
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Buying good-quality local meat can be very expensive and not always accessible for cash-strapped carnivores, locavores (people who like to...
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On rolling pastures in the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, cattle peacefully graze on thick blades of grass. A...
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As humans we channel a staggering 70% of freshwater consumption into agriculture and industry, but urbanisation is making it harder to...
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Home to more than 170,000 Palestinians, Hebron is the largest city in the West Bank. But an archaic Ottomon law allows government...
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You may have heard of the Internet of Things - the idea that all physical objects communicate data over the...
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Known for his genetic research, biochemistry scientist and Stanford University professor Patrick Brown has created a plant-based hamburger that ‘bleeds’ just...
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This pink superfood seaweed tastes just like bacon and is better for you than kale. High in minerals, vitamins, protein and antioxidants,...
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As the world’s cities grow the role of farmers is increasingly important, but a lack of accessible agricultural machinery can...
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The living component of soil is integral to landscape processes. Made up of incredibly diverse organisms from one-celled bacteria and...
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Agroforestry is the growing of trees and agricultural and/or horticultural crops on the same piece of land. Research in the...
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Most of the veg we eat starts life underground, but usually pops up into the sunshine to complete the process....
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The future of food production is being altered – and not by a chef, but by ex-Google Maps mastermind Dan...
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Known as the bread of the tropics, cassava is arguably the world’s most important and interesting vegetable when it comes...
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Africa risks having no forests by 2052. However, a former accountant is hoping to prevent that risk becoming a reality...
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Tea is the world’s most popular beverage. It impacts on the lives of millions, providing employment and export earnings worldwide....
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The Philippines is blessed with fertile land and a climate well suited to crop production but the Asian island nation...
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From companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
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An Indian NGO in New Delhi has created a locally generated digital database of thousands of videos to teach agricultural...
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