A Love for Lentils: How World Pulses Day Can Change the Way You Eat
Pulses have a long, rich history. The first evidence of pulses comes from 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, a region in the Middle East which was home to some of the earliest human civilizations. Today, hundreds of...
10 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020
Menus of the Future Should be Difficult to Decipher
The global food system relies on just a fraction of foods. Just four crops - wheat, rice, maize and potato - provide 60 per cent of our calories. Relying on a limited amount of crops for our food is not only less nutritious but...
28 Jan 2020
28 Jan 2020
How this Arctic Vault Could Provide the Food of the Future
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault stores duplicate copies of most of the crop diversity in the world. As part of the Our Planet Project, a four-year collaboration between Netflix, Silverback Films and WWF, former Crop Trust Executive...
27 Jan 2020
27 Jan 2020
Preserving Appalachian Biodiversity with Cider Apples
Emily Payne | Food Tank
A quality cider is the result of a fine-tuned recipe, with each apple variety contributing a certain component to the final product, Michael Gutensohn tells Food Tank. Gutensohn is Assistant Professor of...
20 Jan 2020
20 Jan 2020
A Little Wild in Our Rice
Scientists are collaborating with farmers in Vietnam in a new project which is striving to develop improved varieties of rice which can withstand the challenges of climate change by tapping into the genetic diversity available in...
15 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020
How Peru's Potato Museum Could Stave Off World Food Crisis
Dan Collyns | The Guardian
With a climate changing faster than most crops can adapt and food security under threat around the world, scientists have found hope in a living museum dedicated to a staple eaten by millions daily: the...
5 Dec 2019
5 Dec 2019
Meet the Chef Serving up Pork Schmaltz in Appalachia
Emily Payne | Food Tank
“California has nothing on us,” Chef Ian Boden, Owner of The Shack in Staunton, Virginia, tells Food Tank. “Except 70-degree weather 10 months out of the year.”
Boden is cooking in The Shack’s intimate,...
26 Nov 2019
26 Nov 2019
22 People & Organizations Working to Preserve Appalachia's Biodiversity
This fall, Food Tank and the Crop Trust traveled throughout Appalachia to highlight and celebrate its unique food cultures and agricultural diversity. As part of a multi-year, multi-country #CropsInColor campaign, we focused on...
14 Nov 2019
14 Nov 2019
From Coffee to Cosmetics
Companies are Looking for Ways to Protect the Plants Their Products are Made From
The number of plant species in the world is declining, and climate change is poised to reck further havoc on commodity crops. As shrinking natural...
11 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019