Fertilisers can make plants sicker (originally published on ConservationBytes.com) Last year we reported experimental evidence that the dilution effect was the phenomenon by which greater biodiversity imparts disease resistancein plant…

Farmers see first payments from farm data system On the Owatonna, Minn., farm where his grandfather once picked corn by hand, Bob Heers just cashed in on a new crop:…

Waikaitu, a New Zealand company, has developed a refined and concentrated seaweed biostimulant from the brown algae ‘wakame’ (Undaria Pinnatifida). Wakame is a non-native/invasive species of seaweed found in the…

Research published in the journal Nature has identified causal link between carbon dioxide emissions, and reduced levels of zinc, iron and protein in important global food crops. The report highlights…

Millennial Food Innovators: Kulisha Turns Flies into Sustainable Animal Feed Our Millennial Innovators Uprooting Our Food System series, which profiles the bright, creative and driven university students from around the…

The Geneva-based Ocean Reef Group, a scuba diving company, is taking food production under water. With the assistance of agricultural experts, it is operating the research project Nemo’s Garden. Launched…

The central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is developing plans to integrate child nutritional goals with local agriculture to overcome malnutrition. The plans are proposed by Archana Chitnis, minister of…

madhumithaa on Twitter @FuturesCentre – Another #signalofchange, this time on strategic crop reallocation based on climate change patterns to feed 825 million more https://t.co/Yegh5BYjPK Scientists: Strategic Crop Growth Based on…

Researchers from the International Centre for Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, have used non-GM molecular breeding techniques to develop a set of durum wheat…

Carol Brighton on Twitter SignalofChange https://t.co/hAuq4LC6Zr Yale Environment 360 on Twitter A growing number of Iowa farmers are breaking with the industrial model of growing corn and soybeans, incorporating small…

China signs $300m to buy lab-grown meat from Israel China has signed a $300m deal to purchase meat grown in a laboratory in Israel in a deal that could open…

A San Francisco Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container smithsonian.com It all started with shipping containers. Brandi DeCarli and Scott Thompson were working…

Carol Brighton on Twitter SustainableSeafood / #CellAg – @FinlessFoods #BluefinTuna Grown in a Lab – #SignalofChange – Oceans Deeply https://t.co/Av4vPrLwhg   Carol Brighton on Twitter FutureofFood #SignalofChange: Biotech startup @FinlessFoods…

Carol Brighton on Twitter PollinatorProtection #SignalofChange: UK will back total ban on bee-harming pesticides https://t.co/MbwsCHZqzT

Doesn’t sound very appetising – and i don’t really want to think about the scenarios in which this would be a mainstream idea – but perhaps this is still better…

Chinese scientists have created 12 pigs that have an average of 24% less body fat than the norm for pigs. They did this by using the gene-editing technique called CRISPR-Cas9, which…

Bo Roe on Twitter A Century-Old Dairy Ditches Cows For High-Tech Plant Milk #signalsofchange https://t.co/v2S93rsh8j

Carol Brighton on Twitter FutureOfFood: #organic – #SignalofChange https://t.co/9frTkgUqO3 via @DMRegister

Gwyneth Fries on Twitter Salads as accessible as candy bars! @FarmersFridge hacks of our modern food system @FuturesCentre #fctracker https://t.co/4nO2aeQJs9

Insect bread, anyone? Anyone for crickets? Finnish bakery sells bread made from insect A Finnish bakery has launched what it claims to be the world’s first insect-based bread to be…

Last November, the European Commission launched a report on the development of plant proteins – specifically soy, chickpeas, lentils and rapeseed – across the EU in order to tackle its…