Recent Articles
What Condé Nast’s Ziplist Acquisition Means for the Startup’s 6.5K “Partners”
What publisher Condé Nast has acquisition of Ziplist means for the future of their existing 6,500 food partner websites and blogs.
Infographic of the Week: More Bang for Your Food Aid Buck
What is the human impact of inefficiencies in how your tax dollars are spent? In 2010 the U.S. spent $2 billion total on international food aid, but $491 million of those taxpayer dollars were tied up in red-tape in the U.S. farm bill, says new research from Oxfam America and American Jewish World Service (AJWS). The
Innovator Video: Siansplan.com Aims to Simplify Meal Planning & Reduce Food Waste
Siansplan.com is a new a new meal planning tool designed to help families make cooking and shopping easy, fun and more efficient
Infographic of the Week: Open Source Framework for Cooking
Studiofeast explores new approaches to cooking based on dish structure, rather than traditional recipe format. They believe this will result in a much more fulfilling experience in the kitchen.
Innovator Video: Design For America Healthy Food (Access) Project
How can human centered design encourage healthier food choices in “food deserts”
Building Food Apps: The Importance of a Data Framework
While there are several ways technology can be leveraged to package information about food products and transform it into helpful information for consumers, a main component of any solution must begin with a strong, malleable framework for structuring and storing the data.
Infographic of the Week: ‘Pink Slime’ & Processed Red Meat Are Bad for You
Red Meat Is Killing You visualizes what “pink slime’ is and how it’s made
ScanAvert: The Future of Shopping with Dietary Restrictions
ScanAvert, a mobile application that helps consumers with dietary restrictions to choose safe groceries is much more than a mobile grocery advisor, allowing users to find and track their purchases based on their manageable disease or condition.
Innovator Video: Michael Pollan on Open Source Agriculture
In this video from his talk at The Long Now Foundation in 2009, Michael Pollan discusses the feasibility of genetically engineered crops designed to support sustainable agricultural systems
FAO’s Shiny New Agricultural Data & Information Sharing Tool
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has recently released a new resource that will make its agricultural development strategy a whole lot easier. The Agricultural Development Assistance Mapping (ADAM) tool is a platform that gathers information from diverse databases about agricultural development needs, objectives, in-country activities, and funding modalities, and aggregates
R&D Concept: Horto domi- the Open, Arduino Controlled Garden
Horto domi is a new Kickstarter project to develop open source environmental controllers for raised-bed gardens enclosed within a geodesic dome
Infographic of the Week: Why GE Foods Should be Labeled
Just Label It, a campaign advocating for the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods, created the following infographic to illustrate why GE foods should be labeled
Yummly’s Billion Dollar Digital Kitchen Platform
Armed with a dream investment team, and $6 million in Series A Funding, semantic recipe website Yummly is getting ready to build the world’s first ‘digital kitchen platform.’
From SXSW to the White House, Food Data a Trending Topic
It is clear that there is a real need, and a real opportunity, to use data to tell the stories of the food movement and to support advancements in agriculture, advocacy, science and health. Data is also a necessary tool for lawmakers to produce smarter policy that speaks to the needs of the people
Innovator Video: Cerealize Looks to Disrupt the Cereal Industry
Cerealize, a new subscription website that allows consumers to design custom blended, organic breakfast cereal and have a box of it shipped to their home, took first prize for this year’s Startup Bus competition. Cerealize peaked my interest for a couple of reasons, most significantly for their fun and easy approach to tackling industry consolidation.
