Videos

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  Astronaut Diaries: What’s on the Menu?

  The food the astronauts eat on the International Space Station has to be portable, nutritious, and able to last. This so called “space food” has gained a reputation of sacrificing...

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  Is Genetically Modified Food Safe?

  The first ever commercially grown, genetically modified food was the Flavr Savr Tomato, produced over 15 years ago. Production of the tomato stopped after only about 3 years...

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  Food 2.0: Feeding a Hungry World

  By 2050, one of every four people on Earth will go hungry unless food production more than doubles. Science-based agriculture has proposed unconventional new tools—earthworms,...

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  The Future of Food

  Land is a finite resource. Land is the source of all our food. Today, 1.02 billion people already go to bed hungry. Two billion more suffer from malnutrition. By 2050, we will...

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  The Great Success and Tragedy of Agriculture

  The average person in Africa spends 70% of his income on food. Such was the case for most of the world up until the last few decades. Today, as a result of advances in agriculture...

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  Food Is Everything

  Think about how you divide up your income each month. Probably, a good chunk of it goes toward rent or a mortgage. You also might spend money on shopping, travel, entertainment,...

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  Modern MacGyver: The Lunch Pail Stove

  Imagine removing the grate and vents from your fireplace, and moving it to the middle of your kitchen floor. Now use it three times a day to cook your meals. It will produce lots...

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  Modern MacGyver: The Indestructible Rice

  Most of the world’s rice is grown in southeast Asia by small farmers, who cannot afford for their crops to fail. The bacterial disease Xanthomonas can destroy half of a harvest in...

Blog Posts

• Food 2.0: Feeding a Hungry World

  At first glance, it's a title that could seem boring. "Feeding a hungry world." Maybe even trite. One can only assume it's yet another infomercial asking for us to help starving children. And we've been hearing about that for years. What's new? What's fresh? What's surprising?...