"The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer." – Will Rogers It's difficult to...
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Welcome to the Farming month. Six years of researching and publishing the people and projects out there working hard to...
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What a week. (Does anyone know what day it is?) This week saw the digital landscape flooded with action: Earth...
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In Uganda, Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga are the major sources of quality protein, in the form of various species...
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We're excited to announce the 2023 dates of our annual festival: 12, 13 and 14 October. Mark them in you...
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Bestselling supertaster and food educator Bee Wilson knows a thing or two about healthy and sustainable eating. Author of six...
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Did you know that the planet’s topsoil is the world’s largest living entity? A handful of rich soil is...
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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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“We believe that technology and renewable energy will not be enough to save us. And that for once, we should...
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We hope you’re enjoying this holiday season! Whether you’re a fan of mulled wine and sweaters or a Santa hat...
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“Art need not be fiddling while the world burns. Art can link with science and the full power of human...
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A simple sticker can keep fruit fresh for up to two weeks longer, using natural plant compounds and creating a...
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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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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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Plant a seed, build a kite, and connect with the land at Aurora de Las Sierras. Analaura Antúnez and...
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If the endangered European pond turtle still survives in Catalonia it is thanks to the Emys Foundation (Fundació Emys), which...
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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 Billion Oyster Project wants to restore New York Harbour’s once famous and flourishing oyster reefs, bringing biodiversity back to...
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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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As sequestration startup Carbo Culture sees it, nature already does a kickass job of capturing CO2. Perhaps the most innovative...
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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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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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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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Mexican startup Griyum produces edible cricket flour to help combat malnutrition, provide better economic opportunities to farmers and help the...
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Take a cup of old coffee grounds, a handful of mussel shells, and a dash of green tea, and what...
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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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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein...
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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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No irrigation? No problem. These clever tree-planting cocoons can bring soil back to life and restore dry, dusty land back...
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What links Arcade Fire, lab-grown chicken burgers, the rare white Arabian oryx, masks made from plastic waste and the circular economy?...
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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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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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"Are killer death robots from the future already among us?" That's the sort of question you can expect from 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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Dúlabio has designed a unique blend of seaweed species that are native to Ireland to dramatically reduce methane and other...
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The cotton industry can be thirsty, toxic and exploitative, but the Barcelona/London based Cotton Diaries believes there are better ways to...
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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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"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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As part of Civic Square's Department of Dreams project, on 22 June 2020 we will be offering a half day...
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"It has become crystal clear that food is one of the most valuable things in our lives." Abby Rose was named...
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Today the food systems must adapt quickly. Farmers, growers, food businesses, cafes and restaurants are being forced to simultaneously and...
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“I am the Amazon. Please look after me.” Thought–provoking and emotional, the stirring sound of a 22-year-old afro-indigenous eco-activist from...
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Is it possible to bring divided communities together through food? Soil Association believes it is. And it’s bringing bunting, garden...
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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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“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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"In these volatile times, with so much in flux, there’s everything to play for." The most daring innovators aren’t found...
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“If you want to do something about climate change, change the politics. Use the system to fight the system.” Imagine...
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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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“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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Guest post by Jonathan Minchin Urban visionary Carolyn Steel has captured the public imagination by giving us food as a way...
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Are you joining us for Fixing the future at the CCCB in Barcelona on 7-8 June? As if 53 'FutureHero' speakers wasn't enough, we're offering eight screenings...
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"Why do an equality lineup now? Because we should have done it ages ago." It's 2019 and we've all had...
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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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Decades of over-exploitation have left our ocean and fish populations a shadow of their former selves. That’s why, after securing...
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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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We’re overjoyed to announce that ‘Fixing the future’ is back. And this year it's bigger, better and faster – because...
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Imagine if you could get a 'city' to agree to making the world more self-sufficient. A creative team of pioneers and...
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Let us take you inside an old school made from recycled theatre salvage, decommissioned bio labs and art freight containers...
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In the sprawling high plains of the Free State province of South Africa, Conchita Milburn is playing a key part...
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From culinary creativity and food fads to a dystopian future soil crisis, friends of the Atlas ask Dan Barber –...
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Something special is happening inside an old school made from recycled salvage from a theatre company, decommissioned bio labs and...
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"We either build the future we want, or become the victims of it." As Director of Fab Lab Barcelona at the Institute for...
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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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The aquaponics game is fun, and now Aquapioneers wants to show Barcelona that it's also easy to harvest fish and grow food without...
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A microgreen-fingered hydroponic hero is proving that ‘zero km’ is possible – in London’s disused bomb shelters. With his groundbreaking subterranean...
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Oatly is milk from oats grown in Sweden. But it’s not just a tasty and healthy alternative to cow's milk,...
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Meet Cameroon's protector of the oceans using plastic waste to build eco-canoes. The charismatic Ismaël Essome Ebone is the young entrepreneur...
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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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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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In March 2017, Fab Lab Barcelona celebrated ten years of innovation, participation, digital manufacturing, technology and creation with a big birthday fiesta at the...
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Over the last decade Fab Lab Barcelona has helped people around the world to locally conceptualise, design, develop and fabricate, with a...
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There is no better time to reboot our world than right now – which means there is no better time...
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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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This year might have had its dark times, but there are many reasons to get excited. From the Faroe Islands to Patagonia,...
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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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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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Submitted by you: Rising global connectivity shows that mobile internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of information and knowledge...
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From a Noah’s Ark of seeds and American Idol for rural farmers to 3D printing prosthetics in conflict zones and...
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The age of the flatpack farm has dawned. That’s the ambition of green-thumbed urban innovators Mikkel Kjaer and Ronnie Markussen...
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The Devon dairy farmer’s daughter – who left the Pacific to come home and start a little revolution with Village Farm – on the...
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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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Wouldn’t it be extraordinary if we could end extreme poverty, hunger, disease, climate change and fight inequality and injustice by...
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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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The lead founder behind the revolutionary WikiHouse – the digitally manufactured building system that anyone can download and make –...
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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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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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Most major voting systems are unevenly weighted, prone to manipulation by and via the media, established parties and corporations, and...
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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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An Indian NGO in New Delhi has created a locally generated digital database of thousands of videos to teach agricultural...
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