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University of Illinois
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NPR
Scientists have re-engineered photosynthesis, a foundation of life on Earth, creating genetically modified plants that grow faster and bigger. They hope it leads to bigger harvests of food.
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Gizmodo
Animal rights activists have done stellar work in foregrounding the question of creature-consciousness: no meat-eater is now ignorant of the fact that their food once lived, breathed, maybe nuzzled its kin in a blood-soaked slaughterhouse. Environmentalists have a harder go of it. Fracking footage will always be less upsetting than your average fast food expose: Plants, after all, can’t wail fra
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San Francisco Chronicle
The competition between the nation’s two highest-profile plant-based burgers has...
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Fast Company
Meat substitute manufacturers such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are grappling with intense social conditioning as they relay to consumers that protein doesn’t need to come from a cow.
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The Guardian
As the world population grows and food security is threatened, the pressing challenge for agriculture is to produce more food, more efficiently and more sustainably. Here are a couple of the latest innovations.
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Stratfor
Agriculture is having a technological revolution of its own.
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New Yorker
Picking strawberries takes speed, stamina, and skill. Can a robot do it?
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McKinsey
Four leaders in Indian agriculture discuss the sector’s challenges and digital innovation’s potential impact on smallholder farmers.
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McKinsey
Smart agriculture suppliers are giving farmers what every consumer wants: a digital interface for speed and convenience and human interaction when they need it. Here’s how they’re doing it.
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GreenBiz
Articial intelligence and big data may help produce more food, use less water, limit resource consumption, redirect food waste and reduce food prices.
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The Toronto Star
AI is now helping farmers across the country to increase yields, save costs and minimize environmental damage. Instead of spreading fertilizer across ...
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VentureBeat
IBM's Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture taps AI and internet of things devices to predict crop prices, combat pests, and more.
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Time
China is racing to become the world leader in Artificial Intelligence and the nation's AI farms are where the struggle is being waged.
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Nature
Growing demand for agricultural commodities for food, fuel and other uses is expected to be met through an intensification of production on lands that are currently under cultivation. Intensification typically entails investments in modern technology — such as irrigation or fertilizers — and increases in cropping frequency in regions suitable for multiple growing seasons. Here we combi
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Vox
Studying food and health is something of an art.
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Stratfor
In agriculture, new ideas will be vital to satisfying growing demand in the face of diminishing resources.
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Reason
Things are getting better.
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Step Feed
This will open 32,500 job opportunities to Saudi nationals in the kingdom's agriculture sector.
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Science Mag
New regulations focus on traits, not technology used to create them
