Inside Higher Education reports that the University of California at Davis reports early success with its efforts to incorporate digital badges into its curriculum: The idea was hatched as the university worked toward the 2011 launch of the sustainable ag major. It’s an ambitious interdisciplinary program, featuring collaboration among eight departments in the university’s College […]
A recent report from the Tug Hill region of New York documents how technology is improving the productivity in the dairy industry. The entire milking process is coming under the control of robots. We kid you not: Cows wearing numbered red collars with transmitters pushed their way through one-way gates at both sides of the […]
Advocates for improved public health and nutrition have argued that obesity and other food-related public health problems are exacerbated by the existence of “food deserts,” stretches of cities and regions where there are few if any outlets selling fresh, unprocessed food. The L.A. Times reports that a new study finds that the link between the […]
According to Springwise, a Danish supermarket is the latest to try this: Supermarkets are convenient, but often source their products from multinational companies and farms in distant locations, racking up carbon emissions and squeezing out local competition along the way. Danish co-operative grocery superstore SuperBrugsen now aims to offer a popular alternative by getting customers […]
As we noted last week, a report has called into question the notion that food deserts exist in the US, suggesting that access to high quality food is much better in urban neighborhoods than previously thought. Over at the Next American City, Ariella Cohen has an interview with food researcher Allison Karpyn in which she […]
The New York Times reports on two new studies that call into question the importance of so-called “food deserts” in the US: It has become an article of faith among some policy makers and advocates, including Michelle Obama, that poor urban neighborhoods are food deserts, bereft of fresh fruits and vegetables. But two new studies […]
