Souwie Buis
On a bright, breezy autumn day, I make my way past road works and round-abouts to the shining waters of Rotterdam harbor. It is a mere 10-minute walk from the station. I find myself staring
Esha Chhabra
The big idea now animating food futurologists is “regenerative agriculture”. Named in 1989 by an organic farming evangelist, Bob Rodale, the idea is to grow food in ways that achieve multiple benefits simultaneously, as soils
Esha Chhabra
Fruits and vegetables are called “specialty crops” in America’s farm bill. One woman in Congress is working to change that, and make agriculture in the US carbon-neutral. “The food, nutrition and hunger system is a
Driving Change
The rapid increases in agricultural production and efficiency achieved through a series of research technology transfer projects in the 1950s and 1960s have been variously called the ‘Green Revolution’ or the ‘Third Agricultural Revolution’, and
Driving Change
Planting trees is increasingly fashionable among policymakers, not least as a way to counter the climate-changing effects of carbon entering the atmosphere. The largest reforestation programme in the world is the Grain for Green program,
Andrew Cave
Stephane Farouze has an even more improbable story than Alfred Jones, Ewan McGregor’s scientist in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. While that $35m-grossing romantic comedy about efforts to populate desert wadis with Scottish salmon focused on
Jessica Brown
From Paris to Pyongyang, shoppers the world over responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by stripping supermarket shelves. Nissin Foods, the Japanese company whose founder invented the now ubiquitous instant noodles, has seen its share price
Carolyn Whelan
“We needed a radically different approach,” says Kathryn Garcia, New York City’s Sanitation Commissioner and Food Czar, recalling how she and colleagues set about feeding the city’s vulnerable over the pandemic, adding that traditional soup
Furqan Sayeed
In developing countries, food insecurity following the outbreak of disease has often been more fatal than the disease itself. Pandemics such as Ebola, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and MERS all had negative impacts on food
Rachel Dobbs
Singapore has an impressive history of succeeding against the odds, emerging as a global economic and financial powerhouse out of the most unpromising conditions when it secured its independence after the Second World War. Becoming
