Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge 2022: to grow lettuce using only AI
This year, five top-ranked international teams compete to grow lettuces entirely without human intervention in Wageningen University’s high-tech experimental greenhouse.
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Is the future of farming indoors?
This short film depicts the work of protected cropping experts at Western Sydney University’s Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment supporting India’s efforts to develop sustainable future food production solutions.
Transforming Food Systems: Effective policies to build a sustainable future
Food-systems experts from London, Delhi and Sydney discuss strategic policies and practices to boost food equity and resilience in this webinar hosted by The George Institute for World Food Day 2021.
UN Food Systems Summit sessions: watch on demand
The first UN Food Systems Summit on 23 September, livestreamed across the world, engaged more than 51,000 people from 193 countries and led to nearly 300 pledges to act. Watch all the sessions on demand.
Australia’s v2 ‘alt-meat’ product range cracks world’s largest market
Australian plant-based meat product company v2food, a joint venture between CSIRO, Main Sequence Ventures and Hungry Jack’s franchisee Jack Cowin, has expanded its export reach into China. The company is now valued at more than half a billion dollars.
Applying NASA speculation and Nobel Prize-winning science to future food-supply challenges
Innovative ag-tech start-up Air Protein is applying century-old tech and astronauts’ ideas to the challenge of making more (food) from less. In this case, a whole lot less.
Supermarket giant backs Sydney SME Harvest B
Woolworths’ venture capital arm w23 is one of the backers in a bumper $4m funding round for Sydney-based premium proteins start-up Harvest B.
Securing a profitable future via high-value CEA crops
Growers investing in high-value crops such as saffron and vanilla, and in varieties bred for sustainability, are fuelling diversity in indoor cropping, found a panel of experts at the recent Indoor AgTech NYC Innovation Summit.
Cattle at SA’s new $90m sustainable processing plant will eat seaweed
A seaweed-laced feed that curbs cows’ methane emissions by up to 99% is just one of the ‘green’ innovations at Pirie Meats’ new processing facility.
COVID-19 adds fuel to four big beverage trends in APAC region
Four big trends are fuelling beverage innovation across the APAC region, and they’ve only been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.