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Unseenbird’s Mars-themed café has its own vertical farm

Sik Mul Sung is a café incorporating glass-front cultivation tanks where fresh produce can be grown and harvested, before being served to customers...

Micro Trends

On-demand Farms

The farm-to-table movement is going direct-to-consumer as farmers and small-batch producers embrace livestreaming, digital tools and platforms for ...

Agriculture : Direct-to-Consumer : Food

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Just Salad adds carbon labelling to its menu

The casual dining chain has calculated carbon emissions for all menu items to encourage climate-smart eating.

Food : Environment : Supply Chains

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This alternative chocolate is made from insects

Future Chocolate imagines how edible insects could enhance the chocolate experience.

Food : Design : Sustainability

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Global café culture meets urban farming

Snackbar will bring high-tech indoor allotments to a permanent neighbourhood dining space.

Food : Drink : Hospitality

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The fruits of the future could be artificial

Neo Fruit is a speculative project that imagines how common fruits will adapt to our future lifestyle.

Food : Design : Technology

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Vertical farms to grow Marks & Spencer’s services

The IoT vertical farming units will provide customers with access to fresh, store-grown herbs.

Food : Technology : Urban Living

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Gene-edited avocados could survive climate change

As rising temperatures disrupt supply chains, a team of scientists have found a way to map the DNA sequence of avocadoes.

Food : Technology : Gene-editing

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Artisan vodka distilled from grains grown in Chernobyl

Scientists in the UK and Ukraine have collaborated to create an artisan vodka made from rye grown in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

Drink : Vodka : Spirits

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Former post office revived with rooftop park and farm

OMA is transforming a former post office into a mixed-use complex featuring one of the world’s largest rooftop parks and farms.

Placemaking : Retail : Sustainability

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Atlanta is building a seven-acre edible food forest

The forest will help feed communities that live in one of America’s food deserts.

Food : Health : Sustainability

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Eat the Problem creates recipes with invasive species

Eat the Problem is an exhibition and cookbook focused on the world’s most invasive species of animals.

Food : Sustainability : Society

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Gracias Madre rejects industrialised spirits

The restaurant will only stock and serve agave-based spirits made using traditional production methods.

Drink : Food : Spirits

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A dining destination for fermented food and drink

The Soak offers a menu based around fermenting, soaking, steeping and brining techniques.

Food : Drink : Fermentation

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These biosolar panels will tackle air pollution

Imperial College London is collaborating with start-up Arborea to develop pioneering biotechnology to improve air quality in White City.

Food : Technology : Renewable Energy

Viewpoints

Stimulating our senses could reduce food waste

In an age of flat screens and mass-produced foods, can heightened sensory experiences fix the disconnection between what we eat and how we eat it?

Food : Design : Uprooted Diets

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Calyno is a healthier gene-edited soybean oil

Food and agriculture company Calyxt has announced the commercial launch of a gene-edited soybean oil that it claims to have made healthier.

Food : Culture : Technology

Micro Trends

New Urban Farms

Agricultural practices are undergoing a seismic shift as farmers and start-ups contend with feeding an ever-growing urban population.

Food : Technology : Sustainability

Micro Trends

Post-category Spirits

A wave of new start-up distilleries are creating category-defying spirits that reject the traditional rules and regulations of liquor-making.

Drinks : Hospitality : Food

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This chocolate brand is pro-GMO

Ethos Chocolate is a new line of limited-edition chocolate sourced from cacao crops saved, improved or protected by biotechnology.

Food : Sustainability : Uprooted Diets

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Atomo is hacking the coffee bean

The start-up is developing a molecular coffee without coffee beans, reducing harm to the environment.

Drinks : Coffee : Sustainability

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The Planetary Health Diet is not just about human health

New dietary guidelines highlight the need for consumers to transform the way they eat in order to balance human health with environmental sustainab...

Food : Uprooted Diets : Diet

Micro Trends

Climate-positive Foods

Restaurants and food brands are turning their carbon-offsetting efforts into educational and marketing campaigns that flaunt their sustainability c...

Food : Uprooted Diets : Sustainability