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The first graduating ARK Challenge class launches companies to gamify grocery shopping, test food quality, connect retailers with small farmers and more.[...]
The Hack//Meat hackathon winners helps improve communication along the supply chain and matches consumer demand for sustainable meat with grocery supply.[...]
Rob O'Donnell of Applegate asks if open source solutions could lower the barriers to entry for getting smaller companies to use meat traceability tools. [...]
Top 10 Produce LLC is helping farmers better market and sell their products online by making their data interoperable and accessible via QR codes. [...]
We have been following accelerator programs popping up around the country and became particularly interested with the ARK challenge, which launched its inaugural class in August an[...]
How often do you find yourself throwing away wilted greens or leftovers that have sat too long in your refrigerator? Probably a lot, according to a new NRDC report that shows the a[...]
PBS's America Revealed released a short clip visualizing a New York City Domino pizza delivery route, which went viral thanks to some influential blogs. The spread of the video off[...]
Knowing where food comes from and how it was grown is a top priority in an increasing number of American households. But aside from costly technological solutions employed by larg[...]
Our food system is not broken- it is poorly designed.[...]
My focus has mainly been on solutions that try to pull some larger "levers of change" in the food system. Lately I've been talking with some funders and investment advisors who are[...]
Farming First, a multi-stakeholder coalition whose goals is to further sustainable agriculture development worldwide, has launched a six-part online infographic called “The Story o[...]
Online business directory eLocal USA created the following infographic to visualize the true environmental, social, and economic impacts of our purchases. (Click to enlarge) Source[...]
In an article last week, I discussed data that shows that a farmer receives a dwindling portion of the consumer food dollar in the US. The data does not explain the ratio of whole [...]
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Last week, I posted a provocation for a ‘Massive Brainstorm‘ on how we could use social media to affect the 2012 Farm Bill. Inspired by the use of social media in the m[...]
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