ALGES is improving living conditions of women wounded in the El Salvador civil war through climate-resilient farming. El Salvador...
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Soils are the second largest global carbon sink after oceans and great allies against the climate crisis. Yet underground ecosystems...
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Love choose-your-own-adventure books? They’re the inspiration for cellphone games that make financial, sexual, and health education accessible to remote communities....
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Can you imagine a world where affordable housing would be defined according to average income, not market forces? Where neighbourhoods...
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Kids are running the show in Cotacachi. There’s a rabbit, a princess, a cowboy. Children dancing in circles, a human...
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“We’re the street plants that’ll resist even when you suffocate them with concrete.” There’s a neighbourhood in Colombia that uses...
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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 Knepp Castle estate has bravely brought ecological history back to the present and is now an example of a...
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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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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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Justdiggit unites with the collective power of the smallholder farmers and local communities in Africa, teaching powerful restorative agricultural techniques...
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Australian not for profit SoilCQuest helps farmers draw carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil—where it will stay...
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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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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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GreenWaves’ vertical, regenerative underwater farming reduces ocean acidity, absorbs carbon, provides nutritious food and just might create a ton 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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Ever travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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The spirit of Mahatma Gandhi lives on in western India, brightening the futures of underprivileged children thanks to NGO Manav Sadhna....
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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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Dúlabio has designed a unique blend of seaweed species that are native to Ireland to dramatically reduce methane and other...
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Imagine for a moment finding yourself in an abandoned town under the characteristic scorching sun of south-eastern Spain. You look...
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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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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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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 simple act of riding a bike helps rural families with limited resources in Mozambique to irrigate their family plots....
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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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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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Since the 1970s, development initiative Sekem has been revitalising the hot, arid sands of a once untouched part of the Egyptian desert, transforming...
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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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“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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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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An experimental organic farmers’ market set up by a ‘culinary activist’ is breaking down religious and cultural barriers in the...
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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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"Imagine if you could take billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, safely, effectively, economically and...
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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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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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Robots and humans are working together to save water, enhance agriculture and make wine lovers very, very happy. An estimated...
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Insects often get a bad press. In reality, however, they can provide essential functions in agriculture and other areas. The...
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In the late 19th century a travelling book salesman had a revolutionary idea – to get women to sell beauty...
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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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For decades, the high prices of computers has prevented most of the world’s population from being able to buy PCs...
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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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Poor nutrition causes nearly half of death in children under five and 3.1 million people die each year. The 3 Million...
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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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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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Plants are more intelligent than we often give them credit for. Over billions of years of evolution they have had to...
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The soft and silky long staples of Egypt’s high quality, extra-long staple (ELS) cotton make it ideal for the production...
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Aligning nature and technology near the Balinese town of Ubud exists an off-grid international school whose mission is to be 'the number...
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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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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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You may have heard of the Internet of Things - the idea that all physical objects communicate data over the...
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Populations in South East Asia have had to live with haze (poor air quality from pollution) for decades, but intensive...
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IBM's game show-winning Watson is a supercomputer like no other. It can take data from any of the digital sources...
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Around 70 percent of worldwide epidemic diseases, such as Sars, West Nile virus or bird flu, are the result of animal-human...
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This free floating, untethered deep ocean fish habitat looks like a giant underwater hamster ball: Aquapods are giant, free range fish...
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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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