Innovator Video: Food Chain

While consumer demand for information about where our food is coming from and how it’s grown is increasing, thus far there has been relatively little interest in the people that actually harvest it. A new film project explores labor practices within the United States agriculture sector and how the role the policies of large buyers, particularly supermarkets, play in perpetuating these practices.

Innovator Videos: 6 Ideas for the Future of Food

Food gets it’s fair share of bad press these days, and for good reason. Food+Tech Connect wants to help you explore new ideas for how information and technology can be used to change the status quo and accelerate food innovation

Innovator Video: Design For America Healthy Food (Access) Project

How can human centered design encourage healthier food choices in “food deserts”

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

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

The Story of Sushi: From Sea-to-Plate

“The Story of Sushi” is an enlightening tale of sushi’s journey from sea-to-plate. Created as a marketing video for Bamboo Sushi, a sustainable sushi restaurant in Portland, Oregon, the video offers a disturbing look at the sustainability implications- environmental and social – of our growing hunger for cheap sushi

Innovator Video: The Future of Grocery – An Interactive Cheese, Meat & Fish Counter

In this senior thesis project, German interaction design students Benedikt Burgmaier and Fabian Kreuzer re-imagine the meat, cheese and fish counter to provide customers with detailed product, origin and recipe information about food items

James Beard’s Mitchell Davis on What a Better Food System Tastes Like [Video]

In this video from TEDxManhattan, James Beard Foundation Executive Vice President Mitchell Davis talks about taste as a powerful tool for social change.

Stop-Motion Animation of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules [Video]

Marija Jacimovic and Benoit Detalle have produced a beautiful stop-motion film that uses vegetables to visualize Pollan’s “Food Rules” talk, given at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts (RSA) in 2010.

BrightFarms’ Business Model: How Tech & Efficiency Could Help Farmers & Consumers [Video]

Food and agriculture know are low margin industries. Paul Lightfoot, Chief Executive Officer of BrightFarms, a company that designs, finances, builds and operates greenhouse farms at grocery retailers, is attempting to capitalize on what he sees as inefficiently produced fresh vegetables. And he recently secured a $4.3 million Series A equity financing round to do so

Ramen Data: Mouth to Anus

Processed food like ramen noodles and gummy bears are bad for you. Now, for the first time ever, you can see how for yourself.

Artist and provacateur Stefani Bardin’s newest project M2A™:The Fantastic Voyage offers a graphic look at how the gastrointestinal tract (GI) processes a meal of Top Ramen versus a meal of hand made noodles

Innovator Series: Mihir Desai of Cross (X) Species Adventure Club on Hacking the Food System [Video]

In this Innovator Series Video, Mihir Desai of Cross (X) Species Adventure Club talks of using science in our everyday lives to hack the food system

Innovator Series: Go Halfsies Tackles Obesity, Hunger and Food Waste [Video]

You have likely heard the paradox: 40 percent of food produced in the U.S. is thrown away (enough food trash to fill the Rose Bowl every day), yet it’s now estimated that one in seven people in the world does not have enough to eat (1 billion people).  Add to that the fact that 66

Molecular Gastronomists Without Borders? [Video]

Chefs Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche of Moto in Chicago, have been experimenting with new ways to prepare and eat food for years. Now, the duo are exploring how the innovations pioneered in their restaurant lab can be used to solve global challenges like the world food crisis and cancer. Watch their TED talk below

Sizable Challenges Exist in Using Video to Spread Farmer Knowledge

A comprehensive study released in October by Agro-Insight confirmed that while farmers in developing nations want access to agricultural information through instructional videos, sizable challenges to distribution still exist.