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Vertical farming at Aerofarms, New Jersey

Vertical farming: Transforming agriculture from floor to ceiling

Map showing hunger in the world

UN intensifies battle against hunger in 10-year special effort

Safe Nutrition for Children in Peru

Cases & Learnings

Vegetables on African market

Supergreens’ hidden potential in Africa

Have you heard of the African nightshade, amaranth or spider plant? They are East Africa’s supergreens, filled with nutrition. Although long overlooked, scientists around the world are now studying their health benefits, hoping that these indigenous vegetables might be a weapon against dietary deficiencies. There’s also a growing interest among farmers and restaurants in East...

Cooking food

Fuelwood – a burning issue for future food

Fuelwood is still the primary source of energy for one third of the world’s population. For an average rural woman in Africa, this means having to collect fuel once a week and carry it for miles – just to be able to cook dinner. A new report by SIANI, Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative, highlights...

Research & reports

Divers inside one of the pods in Nemo's Garden.

Underwater farming for food security

10 facts about hunger in Somalia

With an population of 12 million, Somalia is one of the poorest countries in the world with 73 percent of the population living on under 2 USD per day. Somalia has chronically high malnutrition rates, but World Food Programme’s nutrition programmes aim to treat and prevent acute malnutrition. Here are 10 quick facts raising awareness...

Research & reports

Tetra Pak Reaches More Than 70 Million School Children

Cases & Learnings

Smallholder farmers

Closing gender gap in agriculture could help reduce hunger

Research & reports

Floating market - Shutterstock.com

Big solutions with big data

Following swiftly on the heels of the Internet of Everything (IoE), is a movement being described as the Internet of Food – a desire to harness the capability of IoE and the opportunities presented by big data to be able to make a positive impact on global food production, delivery and consumption – or indeed, the...

Research & reports

School feeding in Vietnam

Celebrating International School Meals Day 2016

The 2016 International School Meals Day will be celebrated March 3rd when children and young people of the world are encouraged to connect and talk to each other, and share their food experiences, stories and news about food and the part it plays in their lives. This year’s theme is Fresh and Healthy Local Foods....

People in street in Uganda

Measuring the cost of hunger in Africa

A new report shines a spotlight on what the UN World Food Programme describes as the “crushing impact” of child undernutrition on Africa’s emerging economies – and urges policy-makers to invest in healthcare and education so the children of today are equipped to build the Africa of tomorrow. Africa is home to the world’s fourth...

Research & reports

Empowering women coffee farmers

Farming by women is a much talked about topic. In a World Bank report focusing on improving opportunities for women farmers in Africa, it is suggested that enabling women farmers to be more productive could also benefit Africa’s next generation, that is, families in which women influence economic decisions allocate more income to food, health,...

Talks & interviews

Markus Huet during and El Salvador school visit in 2009

School feeding makes positive impact

Tetra Laval Food for Development Senior Project Manager Markus Huet explains how school feeding programmes are improving children’s health while strengthening local economies worldwide. School feeding programmes provide a social safety net for millions of children every year. But more than that, they are also helping to strengthen the food value chain in developing countries, creating...

Cases & Learnings

Ripe corn

Online veg box scheme empowers smallholder farmers

Initiatives & projects

A helping hand for a happy life

Talks & interviews

Man showing information on whiteboard

Helping up-skill dairy farm managers in China

Demand for milk is on the increase in China. Since 2008, the Chinese government has been driving a move from household farming activities, involving just a handful of cows, to medium- or large-sized farms, which have more than 100 milk-producing cows. Their aim is to improve farming efficiency, increase product quality and enhance standards of...

Cases & Learnings

Where to find the world's DiP consumers

A geography of the future middle class

The economies in countries like Brazil, India, China and Indonesia are expanding. As incomes rise, poverty is falling. Between 2000 and 2010, the number of people living in extreme poverty around the world was cut in half; five years ahead of the millennial development goal set by the United Nations. As a result, access to...

Cases & Learnings

Re-thinking food waste

Melon farmer - food value chain

Reconnecting the food value chain

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On an African Learning Journey

Did you know that Africa is the youngest place on earth? Approximately 200 million people between the ages of 15 and 24 live in Africa and the region is, on top of that, urbanising twice as fast as the world average. This makes it the perfect place to study how a changing world will support...

Initiatives & projects

Ancient solutions to a modern problem

By using traditional techniques and knowledge accumulated over thousands of years, farmers in South East Turkey could increase the cotton yield using less water. With the help of The Coca-Cola Life Plus Foundation and the Nature Conservation Centre efficient irrigation techniques was taught in the region and part of the success was the clear connection...

Initiatives & projects

Mali street food stand - 2scale.org posted by Rachid

To rebrand a traditional meal

Initiatives & projects

Stallholder Noor Ali, Ahmedabad, India. Image: Lucky Lock/ Alamy

Growth markets of the future

Since Noor Ali set up Rehmat, a tiny grocery store or ‘kirana’ in the old Indian town of Ahmedabad, nearly a decade ago, he has sold more branded goods every year. Strip after strip of sachets containing shampoo, Vaseline, washing powder, hair dye, Vicks balm, face cream — just about everything you’d find in a...

Cases & Learnings

10 facts about hunger in Bolivia

Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Two thirds of its 9.5 million population live below the poverty line. Here are 10 quick facts raising awareness on effects of hunger and malnutrition in Bolivia.

Sustainably feeding a growing population

Initiatives & projects

Mapping out the hunger

Research & reports

Smallholders empowered by technology

Initiatives & projects

How to feed 10 billion

Droughts, floods, typhoons and hurricanes are in recent years putting an extra strain on farmers over large parts of the world. The on-going climate change combined with the projection that global food production will need to rise by 70% by 2050 is forcing us to find new and better ways to feed everyone. This article...

Smallholder farmers

Putting farmers in control of their futures

Research & reports

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