How Food Waste is Engineered into Useful Products in a Circu...
Foods destined for the landfill can have a second life as engineered products. Companies are taking waste such as...
870 million people worldwide are chronically undernourished. Irrigating crops is a simple solution that can double the amount of food a farm produces. But as much as 80 percent of farmland worldwide is not irrigated. Tested machines and new innovations meet that need and others on the farm. From pumps powered by diesel or the sun, drip tubes, mobile apps for weather and market information, low-cost utility vehicles, shellers, driers and much more, innovative design is putting more food on the world’s tables.
Foods destined for the landfill can have a second life as engineered products. Companies are taking waste such as...
Can conscientious design change lives in the world’s underserved communities? In an effort to demonstrate that design can make a difference, hundreds of engineers and product designers have submitted...
We are pleased to announce the eight finalists in the Innovate for Impact: Siemens Design Challenge. Our international panel of expert judges carefully distilled these eight from hundreds of...
About one-third of the food grown for people to eat never makes it into our mouths. Food loss occurs throughout the supply chain from farm to plate, with important...
Enter the Innovate for Impact: Siemens Design Contest to solve post-harvest loss challenges like low-cost food refrigeration. Puerto Rican farmers are spending grants from the food aid non-profit World...
Join the Siemens Design Challenge for a chance to win one of two $10,000 first-place awards. Bob Rabatsky has tapped into his lifelong experience scaling agricultural technology in emerging...
Join the Siemens Design Challenge for a chance to win one of two $10,000 first-place awards. Benson Maina has a birthright and skillset that designers of essential needs products...
Animated videos on phones and other devices may be an effective method of teaching new agricultural techniques to farmers...
The vertical farming market was estimated at $3 billion in 2018 and is predicted to hit $20 billion by...
Global post-harvest food loss has a long list of elegant solutions. And at least 100 of them cost less...
The soil is in trouble. About one-third of the world’s land is moderately to highly degraded, suffering from erosion,...
Mango season closes this month on Kenya’s coast, seeing some mango harvesters continue to employ the traditional method of...
Articles about the future of food and farming have proliferated online for years, including on this site, and they...
Eggs, fish and drinking water captured the expert judges’ imaginations at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Innovation Showcase...
Agricultural technologies swept the competition in Kenya at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Innovation Showcase, sponsored by The...
The world’s food production is in jeopardy because the fertile layer of soil that people depend on to plant crops is...
Solar-powered water pumps have officially entered the mainstream. Stanley Black & Decker, the multinational conglomerate widely known for its...
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