Food & Agriculture Stories
How do we feed a growing and more affluent population without the environmental collateral damage? The Anthropocene’s coverage of food and agriculture digs deep into innovations in farming, aquaculture, filling the global protein gap, reducing the carbon footprint of supply chains, and more.
Squid-inspired packaging keeps contents not too hot, not too cold, but just right
The inventive, heat-regulating material is cheap and recyclable, and provides an energy-efficient and sustainable solution for food and beverage containers.
A 60-year experiment points to the success of biofertilizers as an alternative to synthetic nitrogen
Brazil has saved billions in fertilizer costs and averted the release of millions of tons of carbon by inoculating soybeans with soil microbes.
Tiny, needle-like sensors inserted into plants are the latest addition to precision agriculture
Using microneedles, a technology borrowed from medicine, researchers mine real-time data to make farming hyper-efficient—and more sustainable
What would happen if just 54 wealthy nations adopted the EAT-Lancet planetary health diet?
Answer: it could lock away enough carbon to help them meet their emissions targets by century-end.
A fundamentally new way to freeze foods could cut carbon emissions equal to 1 million cars
Based on a strategy for transporting organs for transplant patients, the method doesn’t ruin food by turning it into solid ice
Growing crops in darkness could save land and advance sustainable agricultural
Researchers advance the science of 'artificial photosynthesis', a process that bypasses the need for sunshine to grow food—and does so more efficiently than the conventional way.
57,000 commonly consumed foods, ranked by environmental impact
Researchers build an algorithm to sift through thousands of multi-ingredient foods and decipher the footprint of each one—which could help provide sustainability guidance where it’s been sorely lacking before.
Cocoa butter might be the secret ingredient for 3D-printed plant-based meat
The fatty material liquefies at higher temperatures and congeals when cold, helping the printed meat hold its shape
Eat Globally
Some experts are beginning to question whether locavorism is an effective solution to ensuring food security on a warming planet
Sometimes the birds and bees are about something more important than sex. Coffee.
In a ground-breaking study, scientists reveal how the combined power of biodiversity—in this case, pest control and pollination services—is greater than individual ecological services.
