This report is one of three Innovation Scan reports the Global Knowledge Initiative produced in 2016 to support the YieldWise Initiative, a Rockefeller Foundation supported effort to demonstrate a halving …
In early 2017, The Rockefeller Foundation posed a challenge to the Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI), its Innovation Partner for YieldWise: How might we dramatically extend the shelf life of perishable …
Nigeria is Africa’s second largest tomato producer. Approximately 200,000 farmers, mostly located in 12 states, grow more than 1.8 million metric tons of tomatoes every year. This isn’t enough to …
As a term, “innovation” is everywhere. Headlines tout it, commercials advertise it, innumerable companies claim it. It is a term so ubiquitous, it risks becoming meaningless. Indeed, “the overuse and …
By 2050, humanity will have over two billion more people to feed than we do now. That’s a daunting prospect when we already struggle to feed ourselves without damaging the planet. …
The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC), the organization I founded with many dear friends and fellow activists in 1984, is now over three decades old. While …
Think about this for a minute: every year, a third of the world’s food -1.2 billion metric tons - is either lost or wasted. This has both economic and environmental consequences, …
Daily images of drought are a stark reminder of the importance of food for human health and prosperity. And while we know that agriculture is the economic backbone of most …
In early May 2017 we joined food technology innovators and entrepreneurs at the 3rd annual Seeds and Chips Global Food Innovation Summit. The conference featured a keynote address by former …
How collaborative ideation fueled a search for food waste solutions. If food waste were a nation, it would rank third in the world for harmful emissions. Along with the environmental damage, …