Improving Ag in the Face of Climate Change
The challenge of agricultural waste and inefficiency includes an overlay of concern about environmental sustainability and, more extremely, climate change.
As with everything else that relates to economic production these days, the challenge of agricultural waste and inefficiency includes an overlay of concern about environmental sustainability and, more extremely, climate change.
“We’ve got to wake up as a society,” says John Purcell, president and CEO of Unfold, an indoor-farming startup. “This is not a theoretical conversation; it’s real. We have billion-dollar weather events this decade that we didn’t see in p…
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Continuing the Conversation With Katie Stebbins
Katie Stebbins, executive director of the Food and Nutrition Innovation Institute at Tufts University, talked with Food Technology at IFT FIRST about the unique and important position the Institute has as a convener for industry, academia, and government to bring forth change in food and nutrition security.
Continuing the Conversation With Caree Jackson Cotwright
In her role as director of nutrition security and health equity at the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service for more than a year, Caree Jackson Cotwright sat down with Food Technology at IFT FIRST to provide an update on the progress made and to issue a call to arms for everyone—industry and academia—to help advance food and nutrition security.
Collaboration + Innovation at IFT FIRST
Energy, insight, cutting-edge science, and lots of networking characterized IFT’s Annual Event and Expo.
Future-Proofing Supply Chains Against Climate Change
Ingredient suppliers and food manufacturers are adopting a variety of strategies to mitigate the risks of weather-related events—and an increasingly unstable supply chain.
Upcycled Foods Break New Ground
The fledgling upcycled category is taking off as companies combat food waste with a growing array of repurposed ingredients.