Social enterprises empower communities
MIT students launch social enterprises that work with communities to foster financial and environmental sustainability.
Pushing the limits of pump design for small farmers in India
Tata Center team invents the first solar-powered water pump tailored to the irrigation needs of millions of small-acreage farmers in the Ganges River basin.
Potash: Historical pathways to development
Diversity of sources and sustainable production methods are needed to meet world potassium fertilizer demand.
Study: Climate change and air pollution will combine to curb food supplies
Ozone and higher temperatures can combine to reduce crop yields, but effects will vary by region.
Feeding the world without consuming the planet
MIT researchers and industry experts address global resource challenges and ways to confront them.
El Niño cycle has a big effect on a major greenhouse gas
Nitrous oxide emissions decrease during El Niño, increase during La Niña.
Assessing the future of water for agriculture
MIT researcher Kenneth Strzepek discusses future threats to water resources in the UN Conference on Trade and Development
The subculture of cheese
MIT anthropologist looks inside the growing world of do-it-yourself American cheese-makers.
Our complex food future and how to respond
Today’s global challenges will significantly affect how we grow our food. But these challenges are so complex and intertwined that response measures require collaboration and a broad, integrated lens.
MIT students to visit Washington to explore science policy careers
New Federal Science Agency Visits program sends delegates to meet with scientists and policymakers at federal agencies to see science policy in practice.
In Profile: Heather Paxson
Anthropologist examines the ‘everyday ethics’ of everything from cheese making to motherhood.