BY: DUSTIN BATTY The education and empowerment of women around the world is a crucial step towards a better and brighter future. It promotes equality, combats societally encouraged oppression, and vastly improves a nation’s economic and developmental potential. A recent…
UNICEF’s Kid Power fitness tracker tackles obesity and malnutrition at the same time
BY: ELIJAH BASSETT One of the darkest ironies of modern capitalism is that we in industrialized nations have more food than we know what to do with, while many people living in the Global South still struggle with malnutrition. But…
Overeating is one of the biggest contributors to food waste
BY: DUSTIN BATTY It is a well-known fact that people have a tendency to waste food. A recent study covered in a Science Daily article found that around fifty percent of all harvested crops—nearly “2.1 billion tonnes” of food—are lost…
GMOs are not as terrible as everyone thinks they are
GMOs have a noted terrible reputation, but the fact is, as long as people are kept aware and the food is consistently tested for safety they are actually perfectly healthy and great for the environment. In 2017 there’s really no…
How 3D printed food could help to end world hunger
BY: MATTHEW YOUNG Three-dimensional printing has burst onto the technological scene with a lot of promise. The past 30 years have seen rapid advances in the quality of printers, how long it takes to print a finished object, and how…
How cricket meat is crawling its way into the North American diet
BY: SINEAD MULHERN By 2050, the world’s population is estimated to reach nine billion. We are very likely to be in a global food crisis and Darren Goldin plans to do something about it by tackling a new method of…
30% of food in the USA goes to waste – Fill stomachs, not landfills
BY: PILGRIM I used to know a girl who would occasionally go dumpster diving for the mass quantities of bread and baked goods that get thrown away behind supermarkets, bakeries and restaurants. Sometimes, when she was in the dumpster, the…
Aquaponics – The cure to world hunger for the price of fish food
By: PILGRIM In 1969, John Todd, Nancy Jack Todd, and William McLarney discovered aquaculture: a self-sustaining hybrid between an organic hydroponic garden (grown from water) and personal fish farm. The complementing relationship between fish and plant habitats allows one to…