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A taco of plant-based meat. Courtesy of Impossible Foods

Best of Landscape News 2019: Food

From developments in plant-based meat technology to Indigenous recipes, here's our 10-item menu of the best stories on sustainable food.

 
Livestock in Ethiopia. Ollivier Girard, CIFOR

How to transform diets? Lower the price of protein and listen to the kids

Leading food scientist Bruce Campbell gives his views on what eating meat in the age of climate change, both scientifically and culturally.

 
A rooftop garden in New York City near a water treatment plant. Gabrielle Lipton, GLF

Wrist sensors and utilizing sewers: Louise Fresco on the future of food

One of the world’s foremost food system experts, Louise Fresco, on how technology and urban agriculture can transform the world's food supply.

 
The UNFCCC Climate Change conference, known as COP 25, will be held in Madrid. Michael Hirst, Flickr

Meatless meat, the next oil glut and a big win for Extinction Rebellion

In this bi-weekly digest: COP 25 moves to Madrid, Italy teaches climate change to kids, and why the Paris agreement pledges aren’t enough.

 
The gilled mushroom genus Pleurotus is known also as oyster, abalone or tree mushrooms. Suzie's Farm, Flickr

Meet the oyster mushroom producer changing urban Ghanaian diets

Afriyie Obeng-Fosu on why the oyster mushroom is great for cities and how entrepreneurs can turn industrial waste into profit.

 
Figs grow on an ancient species of ficus trees and are among the most vitamin- and mineral-rich fruits. Faith Kashefska Lefever, Flickr

Landscape News’ top 5 food stories for World Food Day 2019

From a Michelin-star chef Q&A to a defense for agroforestry, we've pulled the best stories from our archives for World Food Day.

 
Women and their families present their traditional recipes at a community cook-off in Chiapas state, Mexico. Kevin Ferrara, DAI

In Mexico, Indigenous recipes are improving backyard farming

A new cookbook of Indigenous recipes in Mexico's poorest state reignites pride in tradition, native seeds and sense of place.

 
Gliricidia sepium

How evergreen agriculture could feed the world

Global Evergreening Alliance CEO Christopher Armitage on how agroforestry can both feed a growing population and restore the planet’s degraded landscapes.

 
Delegates at the Global Landscapes Forum New York 2019 at the U.N. headquarters. Justin K. Davey, GLF

To combat climate change this decade, restore the Earth

Efforts to restore the Earth's degraded ecosystems, from forests to oceans, rises as a solution to climate change at the Global Landscapes Forum NYC 2019.

 
Climate trailblazers

6 climate trailblazers leading the fight against global warming

At GLF New York, meet these six inspiring climate activists and practitioners who will be bringing their calls for climate action to the stage.

 
Willett's recommended diet embodied in a meal of vegetables (cauliflower), seeds and plant oils. Courtesy of Caravan

Thought for food: Walter Willett on diet for personal and planetary health

From showing diet's causality of disease to contextualizing food in climate change, nutritionist Walter Willett continues to shape global food choices.

 

Flames upon flames, carbon-free planes and a very fashionable G7

From what’s on your shelves to what’s in the atmosphere, here's the latest on climate and sustainability in the Landscape News bi-weekly digest.

 
Avocado

Lessons for feeding a warming world

Water-intensive crops like avocados could become a thing of the past as climate change reduces the land’s ability to feed humanity.

 
Climate modeling

African art goes to space, electricity gets rusty, and e-scooters look dicey

In this news roundup: Germany bets on hydrogen, IPCC warns of impending food crisis, and blockchains ensure ethical cobalt in electric cars.

 
Cereals, nuts and seeds

Growing proteins for a meatless future

Today’s proteins come primarily from meat – but raising livestock to feed 9.8 billion people won’t be sustainable. One scientist believes he has the answer.

 

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