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The Rise And Significance Of Urban Agriculture
The term ‘agriculture’ might evoke thoughts of a rural landscape. You might think of rolling fields and farmland.…
Food Systems Aren’t Meeting Global Needs. Consumers And Farmers Can Change It Together
Global food systems are not meeting all the needs of people and planet. Currently, more than two billion people…
Urban Farming: Four Reasons It Should Flourish Post-Pandemic
Since lockdown, public interest in growing fruit and vegetables at home has soared. Seed packets are flying off…
How Urban Farming Tech Is Shaping The Future Of Food
As agriculture goes urban, it brings along technologies which may alter the future of food. Urban farming is…
How Can Urban Farming Feed The World?
The infusion of data, automation, and agriculture may be the solution to global food security. By the year…
Why You Need To Eat Meat To Stay Healthy
Meat has been a part of our diet since the beginning of time, according to historical research. Nowadays,…
Developing Countries Could Get Sick Before They Get Rich. Policy Can Help
Improved human well-being is one of the modern era’s greatest triumphs. The age of plenty has also led…
What Is The Future Of Food?
The demand for food will require an increase of the global food production of at least 70 percent…
The 10 Best Street Food Cities Of 2019
While some travel to learn or to immerse themselves in different cultures, some travel with a single mission…
How Much Does A Thanksgiving Dinner Cost In 2019?
Are you the Thanksgiving dinner host this year? Wondering how much will your Thanksgiving grocery amount to? Here…
Eight Ways To Halt A Global Food Crisis
There are serious challenges to global food supply everywhere we look. Intensive use of fertilisers in the US…
Mouth-Watering Cuisine In South Africa You Must Try Firsthand
While South Africa is more renowned for its wild safari destinations, The Rainbow Nation also boasts unique and…
Food Additives That Students Should Not Be Afraid To Consume
People used to preserve food since ancient times. Our ancestors had to use everything available to keep the…
The Best Way To Brand A City? With Architecture And Food
Berlin is big beers and the Fernsehturm TV tower. Paris is the Eiffel Tower, croissants, and baguettes. New…
World Hunger Has Risen For Three Straight Years, And Climate Change Is A Cause
World hunger has risen for a third consecutive year, according to the United Nations’ annual food security report.…
America’s Best Food Truck Cities
Over the past few years, food trucks have become ubiquitous in the country’s biggest cities, from Boston to San…
Why Gastronomic Bias May Be The Last Bastion Of Imperialism – & Why Asia’s Oppressed Noodle Dishes Need Some Upbranding
Diners in Asia will spend an arm and a leg on Old World cuisine, yet balk at paying…
The Surest Way To Change Society Is Not By Volunteering… It Is By Creating Jobs
The first time I encountered Roberta, I was elbow-deep in a pot of kidney beans. It was winter…
The Diet That Helps Fight Climate Change
You don’t have to go vegan to fight climate change. Research shows that small changes to our diets…
How To Assess Political Stability? Follow The Bread Path
When Egyptians were protesting in 2011, they held up piece of bread and demanded “bread, freedom and social justice”.…
Why Eating Healthy Is So Expensive In America
Eating junk food isn’t just about taste — it’s expensive to eat healthy in America. Here’s what we…
The 5 New Food Halls To Watch For In 2018
Think you need to go to New York or Tokyo to try the food hall trend? Think again!…
What Americans Can Learn From Other Food Cultures
Food feeds the soul. To the extent that we all eat food, and we all have souls, food…
Want To Eat Well? Forget About Willpower
We know surprisingly little about what we want to eat, and why. Researcher Brian Wansink has been leading…
12 Cities You Must Visit in 2017 If You Love Food
1. New Orleans From crawfish boils to po-boys to beignets, you can’t expect to visit New Orleans and…
Hong Kong Food Trip: Must Try Restaurants
Whether you’re a frequent flyer to, on a vacation or have a business meeting in Hong Kong, trying…
Why These 10 Cities Are Best For Growing Food
Homes in these cities have the most gardens, greenhouses and chicken coops. With continued awareness around GMOs, pesticides,…
A Tour Of Hong Kong After Hours And Its Secret Fourth Meal
Midnight snack or late night snack — its everyone’s dirty little secret. It is that one meal of…
Denmark Capitalizes On Culture To Stop Food Waste
Nobody fights food waste like the Danes. Over a recent five-year period, Denmark slashed its discarded food by…
Flame On! The World’s 11 Best Barbecues You Must Try
Much like music, food is universal — regardless of where we might come from, food is the thing…
Have & Eat Your Cake : 17 Of The Best The World Over
Cakes — sweet and moist slices of heaven that have been part of our lives for centuries. Often…
Foodie Travelers Guide: 30 Best Food Cities In The World
What is the best part about traveling around the world aside from taking in the scenery and the…
America’s Top 10 Secret Wine Regions
We all know Napa Valley and Sonoma, but these are places you’d never suspect to find a glass…
The 6 Must Experience Southern Cheeses In The USA
The artisan cheese industry in the southeast U.S. has blossomed. Here are the best examples of great Southern…
Why “Local Food” Needs Cities’ Help To Truly Be Local
From open-air farmers markets to community gardens to farm-to-table menus, the local food movement has been a powerful…
Sci-Fi Cities & Mega Cities Of The Future, As Imagined Or Not?
Will we live in buildings made out of waste, heavily surveilled smart cities, or maybe floating communities designed…
The 10-ish Best Farmers Market In The USA
If someone created a set of commandments for locavores (food community: get on it) honor thy farmer would…
Can Australia’s Climate Change Mission Be Saved With Farming?
Australia’s agricultural lands help to feed about 60 million people worldwide, and also support tens of thousands of farmers…
Top 10 Feast-Worthy Ideas For Fresh, Local, And Affordable Food Markets
Scruffy and chaotic or orderly and refined, the world’s street markets offer fresh, local—and often cheap—seasonal produce, alongside…
Cool Gelatos On Sticks, Who Would Have Thought
Shoppers at Metropolis at Metrotown now have another reason to visit the mall, thanks to newcomer Popbar, a New…
Pies & Fries : In London And Everywhere Else, Fast Food’s Long History
The chef walks over to our table, wiping his great big hands on his apron. “Just checking there…
How To Cook Up Liveable Cities With Key Ingredients
Liveable communities and resilient cities are buzzwords of the moment. But exactly how do you define a “liveable”…
Why Farming Should Return Back To (Pre)school
A group of architects proposed a new design to help raise environmentally responsible kids. Under the distant gaze…
Urban Farms : The New Frontier For Female Farmers
Vanessa Hanel is a twenty-nine year old female farmer living in the heart of grain-and-cattle country in Calgary,…
Fresh Food On-the-Go: Introducing Bus-Stop Farmers Markets
Farmers markets and upscale food boutiques abound in the bourgeoisie neighborhoods of North America today. At the very…
Grow Your Own : Making Australian Cities More Food-Secure
Food security has typically been framed as an issue of global concern, concentrated within developing countries. The UN…
Cities Must Help Produce More Food
If the world is going to feed its growing and increasingly urban population in the face of climate…
Around The World With 11 Of The Best Street Foods
1. Mint Tea, Morocco Glasses filled to the rim with mint, and a healthy helping of sugar, stand…
Gardens Of Sharing In Denver’s Less Fortunate
Gardeners in Denver often look to help the homeless and less fortunate. There are several ways for them…
Expansive Farm, High Up In The Sky …
The US city of Louisville, KY, is set to become home to a major new vertical farm. The…