Feb 13, 2020 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Robots & Drones
It’s a cloudy day in early October and I’m circling my rented Jeep Wrangler around a maze of industrial buildings in Hamilton, Ohio. Hamilton is a small city 30 miles north of Cincinnati with a population of just over 62,000 people. Like much of Ohio,...
Feb 5, 2020 | Agriculture, Justice
Garrett Broad, assistant professor of communication and media studies and director of the Public Media Masters of Art Program, is researching food system injustices and plant-based alternatives to meat in the United States and abroad. Broad said “food system” means...
Jan 30, 2020 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Sustainability
Around the world, the appetite for seafood continues to grow. Per-capita consumption of fish products has gone from 22 pounds annually in the 1960s to more than 46 pounds today. With marine environments under increasing pressure and wild fisheries unable to satisfy...
Jan 8, 2020 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Robots & Drones
A drone flies over a potato field in Sinaloa, Mexico and informs a farmer 30 kilometres away that the humidity of the air around his crops is low. Meanwhile, a computer in San Diego, California, processes the data and calculates how much water the potatoes need. In...
Jan 2, 2020 | Agriculture
The United Nations estimates that nearly 10 billion people will be living in cities by 2050. According to a recent publication by the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition, urban eaters consume most of the food produced globally and maintain more...
Dec 19, 2019 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Internet of Things
Between 2013 and 2016, net income for farmers and ranchers dropped 45%, the largest three-year drop since the start of the Great Depression, according to the USDA. Farmers face “incredible financial, legal and emotional stress,” according to Farmaid. Their...
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