Food and Agriculture
23 curated listings — companies, articles, research, and people working on Food and Agriculture.
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- CD Original Article · Barret Olafson · 03/13/2024Livestock production, while essential for global food security, contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, with enteric methane being a particularly potent pollutant. Addressing this challenge requires innovative solutions that not only reduce emissions but also earn the trust of consumers and encourage adoption by producers. This paper explores the impacts of enteric emissions,…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 09/04/2023The Drop Conference Special. Food and agriculture play vital roles in sustaining the global population, but they come with significant environmental implications. Collectively, these sectors account for about 24% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Livestock alone contributes to nearly 14.5% of global emissions, with beef and dairy cattle being the primary culprits. Meanwhile, rice…
- CD Original Article · Helen Hollyman · 09/26/2024oday we're diving with Driftie Helen into a crucial but often overlooked aspect of our food system: how to train the next generation of farmers in an era of climate change. In this deep dive, we'll explore: The current state of farming in the US, including the aging farmer population; The challenges young farmers face, from land access to climate unpredictability; The role of…
- person · 05/27/2025I’ve always been drawn to problems—whether tinkering with code or experimenting in the garden for the last 30+ years. That curiosity set me on an early path in STEM, culminating in a degree in Meteorology with minors in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science. Now, I’m advancing my expertise with a Master’s in AI/ML, refining my skills to tackle the challenges of today—and tomorrow.…
Farms
- CD Original Article · Dan Fullem · 05/22/2026How pooled buyer contributions and sovereign debt swaps could close the billion dollar cocoa income gap for 1.2 million farming households. You know how the chocolate industry tries to fix farmer poverty? One company pays a premium to its own supply chain. Another company pays a different premium to its own supply chain. Twenty programs running in parallel, each reaching a few thousand…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/27/2026Affordable solar irrigation, sold on pay as you grow terms, is letting smallholder farmers in Africa water crops year round, boost yields, and build climate resilience without diesel or bank loans. Africa doesn’t have a water problem. It has a finance problem that looks like a water problem. Here’s a math problem: A solar pump costs $1,200. A smallholder farmer earns $600 per year. Rain comes…
Farms › Farm Soils › Soil improvements
- CD Original Article · Eirik Olsen · 05/29/2026Part 2 of Eirik Olsen’s series on Biochar - biochar ecosystem: from producers to purchasers.
Farms › Sustainable agriculture
- CD Original Article · Barret Olafson · 03/13/2024Livestock production, while essential for global food security, contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, with enteric methane being a particularly potent pollutant. Addressing this challenge requires innovative solutions that not only reduce emissions but also earn the trust of consumers and encourage adoption by producers. This paper explores the impacts of enteric emissions,…
- person · 05/27/2025I’ve always been drawn to problems—whether tinkering with code or experimenting in the garden for the last 30+ years. That curiosity set me on an early path in STEM, culminating in a degree in Meteorology with minors in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science. Now, I’m advancing my expertise with a Master’s in AI/ML, refining my skills to tackle the challenges of today—and tomorrow.…
- CD Original Article · Dan Fullem · 05/22/2026How pooled buyer contributions and sovereign debt swaps could close the billion dollar cocoa income gap for 1.2 million farming households. You know how the chocolate industry tries to fix farmer poverty? One company pays a premium to its own supply chain. Another company pays a different premium to its own supply chain. Twenty programs running in parallel, each reaching a few thousand…
Farms › Vertical farming
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 10/24/2023exploring the untapped potential and new directions in the world of mushroom cultivation and consumption.
Farms › Animal & Livestock Farms
- CD Original Article · Barret Olafson · 03/13/2024Livestock production, while essential for global food security, contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, with enteric methane being a particularly potent pollutant. Addressing this challenge requires innovative solutions that not only reduce emissions but also earn the trust of consumers and encourage adoption by producers. This paper explores the impacts of enteric emissions,…
- person · 05/27/2025I’ve always been drawn to problems—whether tinkering with code or experimenting in the garden for the last 30+ years. That curiosity set me on an early path in STEM, culminating in a degree in Meteorology with minors in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science. Now, I’m advancing my expertise with a Master’s in AI/ML, refining my skills to tackle the challenges of today—and tomorrow.…
- CD Original Article · Nandita Srivastava · 05/22/2026You know how food companies handle methane? One sets a Scope 3 target. Another joins a voluntary pledge. A third is running a program to reduce emissions on dairy farms in France. Fifty of the largest food and agriculture companies in North America, each building its own approach, each figuring out measurement from scratch, most of them unable to tell you how much methane their supply chain…
Alternative protein & dairy
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 10/18/2023Part 1 of our complete Guide to Alternative-Proteins. Today we will look at the problems with our current food system and learn where the emissions actually come from. Then we will dive into the solutions landscape & see how far the solutions are. Food systems are responsible for about 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions; from land use change, on-farm production, processing, transport,…
- Person · 05/26/2025Founder & Economist on a mission to demystify climate solutions. Serving bite-sized insights and in-depth explorations.
Alternative protein & dairy › Cultivated Meats
- CD Original Article · Christoph Pröschel · 09/07/2023Few topics spark as much controversy in the climate debate as the assertion that we need to cut our meat consumption if we want to reach our climate targets. On some primal level going for the burger on your plate is a much more outrageous act than going for your car. So it’s no surprise that technical-minded people have been looking for a panacea in the form of lab-grown meat. And the pitch…
- CD Original Article · Nandita Srivastava · 05/22/2026You know how food companies handle methane? One sets a Scope 3 target. Another joins a voluntary pledge. A third is running a program to reduce emissions on dairy farms in France. Fifty of the largest food and agriculture companies in North America, each building its own approach, each figuring out measurement from scratch, most of them unable to tell you how much methane their supply chain…
Mushrooms
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 10/24/2023exploring the untapped potential and new directions in the world of mushroom cultivation and consumption.
- CompanyOur mission is to turn every person into a Mushroom Person. Not only are mushrooms simply one of the most sustainable foods you could ever eat, there is a huge variety of flavor, texture and nutrition just waiting to be discovered. Smallhold initially entered the market as a supplier of fresh mushrooms to restaurants and grocery stores in New York City. Recognizing an opportunity for on-site…
Crop production › New climate crop › Rice
- CD Original Article · Nandita Srivastava · 05/22/2026You know how food companies handle methane? One sets a Scope 3 target. Another joins a voluntary pledge. A third is running a program to reduce emissions on dairy farms in France. Fifty of the largest food and agriculture companies in North America, each building its own approach, each figuring out measurement from scratch, most of them unable to tell you how much methane their supply chain…
Food Waste
- CD Original Article · Aaron Sams · 03/07/2024Diving into food waste and its solutions.
- CD Original Article · Maureen Traynor · 10/15/2024food waste. It's a critical issue that's often overlooked but has massive implications for our climate and resources. Did you know that about 1/3 of all food produced globally goes to waste? That's not just a waste of food, but also of water, energy, and land used to produce it. Plus, it's a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Diving into the challenges in this…