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Tetra Pak Unfold

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How AI is boosting crop yields in India

Last sowing season, 3,000 farmers across southern India waited to get a text message before planting their crops. The message came from an Artificial Intelligence-based Sowing App, which recommended a date three weeks later than traditional planting times. Welcome to digital agriculture, where technologies such as Artificial intelligence (AI), Cloud Machine Learning, Satellite Imagery...

Research & reports

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5 important food safety facts you should know

Most of us will experience a foodborne disease at some point in our lives, and avoiding becoming a statistic is more complex than you might think. These five food safety facts, inspired by the World Health Organisation, sheds some light on why that is. Understanding the scope of global food protection Each year 1 in...

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Ethiopia: How fortified yoghurt could help alleviate hunger

With the world’s fourth largest cattle population, Ethiopia is home to 11 million dairy cows. Yet few of the country’s inhabitants are nourished by milk. At the same time, 40% of Ethiopia’s children suffer from growth stunting as a result of chronic malnutrition. There is a general consensus among physicians that toddlers should consume two...

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Drones in the air help farmers on the ground in the Philippines

Initiatives & projects

Nutrition is not just a medical term

Research & reports

Smallholder farmer with hoe

How to boost sustainable development for smallholders

Nearly 500 million smallholder farmers operate globally. Collectively, they produce most of the food consumed in developing countries. They also make up the majority of people in the world living on less than two US dollars a day. What unites them, however, is not so much the need for humanitarian aid but rather access to...

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Food market in Malindi, Kenya (Shutterstock)

Substantial progress in reducing global hunger

Since 2000 the developing world has made substantial progress in reducing hunger. According to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI), the world’s overall ‘hunger score’ has fallen by 29% while 22 countries have reduced their score by 50% or more. But progress has been uneven. The report shows that there are still 50 countries with...

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Agriculture and nutrition go hand-in-hand

Sylvia Banda

Female entrepreneur transforming the food market in Zambia

LUSAKA. Zambian entrepreneur and social activist Sylvia Banda has dedicated her career to promoting traditional food. Her quest has increased food security in rural areas and opened up new income possibilities for small-scale farmers. It started with a restaurant in the late 1980s that grew into a chain of canteens for corporate clients. However, Banda’s goals...

Initiatives & projects

Children malnourished despite Tanzanian economic growth

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Insuring Africa against food insecurity by climate change

Africa is the most drought-stricken continent in the world. When the rainfall season is delayed, people risk starving and leave their homes in search of food. But with a commercial insurance solution, based on weather satellite data, people can get food and livestock feed before disasters occur. And, more importantly, countries reduce the risk of food...

Talks & interviews

Children in Brazil

Rate of stunted children in Brazil on the decline

How the future of food impacts our planet

How does what I put on my plate affect my health? How is our planet affected by the choices we make? These questions and more were the topics of discussion during the Nobel Week Dialogue in December, with Nobel laureates, and food and climate experts on the panel. “The Future of Food” was the overarching...

Companies can help shape a sustainable future

Is it possible to make a business case for sustainability, nutrition and climate? This was the question on the table at a panel discussion during Eat Stockholm Food Forum 2016. The panel comprised Azita Shariati CEO, Sodexo Nordic. Dr. Michael Grosse, Executive Vice President Development & Service Operations, Tetra Pak. Matt Kovac, Executive Director, Food...

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Coca-Cola’s new map tells the origin story of your juice

Curious about where the oranges in your breakfast juice comes from? Or want to be sure that the sugar cane in your soda isn’t harvested by children before you take a sip? The Coca-Cola Company feels that their customers have the right to know the answers to these types of questions. The company has decided...

Initiatives & projects

The future of food is here

How can we leverage technology and data to create more inventive and sustainable food systems? MIT Media Lab’s Open Agriculture Initiative, under the visionary leadership of research scientist, Caleb Harper is doing just this – harnessing the power of digital technology and data to reinvent how we could grow food in the future. Caleb Harper believes...

Initiatives & projects

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Collecting food security data with mobile phones

Initiatives & projects

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Solving World Hunger with ‘Ugly’ Produce and Leftovers

About a third of the planet’s food production never reaches our plates. Where does all that food go? In developed countries, most of it comes from consumers’ leftovers or from retailers, over-ordering and overserving in restaurants and shops. A large amount of edible food also gets thrown away simply because of how it looks, reports National Geographic...

The Social Impact of Dairy Hubs in Bangladesh

Sustainable dairy farming with social responsibility

In developing countries, the average yield of a cow is between one and five litres per day. At the same time, cows in some developed countries produce up to 40 litres a day, meaning that dairy farming is brimming with potential for improvement. Joakim Rosengren, CEO of DeLaval, shares his thoughts on how to increase...

Women in Senegal

Hungry season reduced using local crops

In Senegal, the hungry season has been shortened from six months to under a month thanks to the cultivation of local crops. Nearly 250,000 people have learned how to grow, eat and sell local foods, instead of consuming rice and other imported grains, in a project funded by UN organisation, IFAD. The Agricultural Value Chains...

Initiatives & projects

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How food security is affected by global warming

What happens with food security in developing countries if climate change is rapidly accelerating? Is there any chance to decrease hunger if we adapt our societies to new climate conditions? That’s been researched for five years by experts from the UN World Food Programme, in collaboration with British Met Office Hadley Centre’s climate scientists. As...

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World Food Day: Food security and climate change

Extreme weather events like droughts, cyclones and floods are becoming more common. The effects of extreme weather are felt most by the poorest people in the world. Many of them are smallholder farmers, struggling to grow their crops. That’s why the theme for this year’s World Food Day is “Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too.” It’s...

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Global malnutrition on the rise

One third of the world’s population is malnourished according to the 2016 Global Nutrition Report, an annual study of the state of the world’s nutrition. The number of overweight children is rapidly increasing in developing countries, and many parts of the world suffer from a ‘double burden’ of malnutrition, with high rates of both undernourishment...

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School milk is boosting the capacity to learn

Cases & Learnings

Food market

Getting better at getting food onto people’s plates

“If the global community is serious about achieving a hunger-free world, we need to prioritise finding solutions to food loss along the entire agricultural value chain,” says Kanayo F. Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). He maintains that there are a number of things, we can do to try and achieve...

Farmer pouring milk into a container

Helping build capacity in the dairy industry

Tetra Laval’s and Tetra Pak’s Dairy Hub model aims to help dairy processors in developing countries improve local milk quality by educating and organising smallholder farmers, helping them move from subsistence farming to profitable dairy production in the process. Today there are successful Dairy Hubs in Bangladesh and Nicaragua, and new projects are under way in Senegal, Kenya...

Cases & Learnings

Potato famers in Zambia loading their truck. Credit: africa924 / Shutterstock.com

Shaping a climate-smart global food system

In the developing world, the agricultural sector is a major provider of food, nutrition and jobs, and a valuable source of earnings from exported goods. Given the significance of this for national economies in these countries, the sector is seen as crucial to improving stewardship of the environment. This report from the World Bank aims to help improve...

Research & reports

Infographic showing hunger in Pakistan

10 facts about hunger in Pakistan

African continent can feed itself

Talks & interviews

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