Prize-winning projects promote healthier eating, smarter crop investments
Meal kits for “food deserts” and crowdsourced crop-pricing platform win Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize.
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Meal kits for “food deserts” and crowdsourced crop-pricing platform win Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize.
Nine student teams pitched solutions to global water issues at annual event.
Water industry publication recognizes J-WAFS director John Lienhard and other influential water sector leaders with strong connections to MIT, in 2018 Top 25 list.
Twenty-two research teams receive $1,443,000 to develop new technological innovations.
Surprisingly, pressurization isn’t to blame for fouling of membranes, study finds.
Project reveals benefits of communicating with industry when conducting research.
MIT researchers supported by J-WAFS present results of their work on food and water security.
Three new projects and two renewals receive J-WAFS Solutions grant funding for 2017-2018.
MIT short program, Innovation and Technology in Agriculture and the Environment, unifies industry and academia.
Kenneth Strzepek applies models to help decision makers advance food security and sustainable development in a climate-compromised continent.
Principal investigators will receive grants of up to $200,000 per year for two years, overhead free, for innovative research on food and water challenges.
Electrochemical method can remove even tiny amounts of contamination.
Teams tackling crop spoilage, pesticide pollution, and farming efficiency win annual competition.
Empowering underserved populations will be a guiding focus.
Specialized droplets interact with bacteria and can be analyzed using a smartphone.