Food

An aerial view shows flooded rice fields after Typhoon Haiyan hit Iloilo Province in central Philippines.

Assessing crop damage after extreme weather

New method to track the impact of typhoons and other natural disasters could enable more precise, timely delivery of food aid.

August 10, 2016

MIT announces Solve program activities

Addressing the world’s most pressing issues, second year of program will focus on in-person gatherings, solution proposals.

July 7, 2016

To use the Nima sensor, a new device that can detect gluten, diners put a pea-sized sample of food or liquid into a disposable capsule, and insert the capsule into the device, which mixes the food into a solution that detects gluten. In two to three minutes, a digital display appears on the sensor, indicating if the food sample does or doesn’t contain gluten.

Is your meal really gluten free?

Portable sensor detects trace amounts of gluten in food at restaurants.

July 6, 2016

Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel ’78 earns MIT Alumni Association’s highest honor

MIT Corporation life member and global entrepreneur honored for his history of service and philanthropy at MIT.

June 9, 2016

J-WAFS' 2015 grantees present their ongoing research at the poster session of the J-WAFS Food and Water Conference, held April 27-28 at MIT.

J-WAFS awards $1.3 million in second round of seed grant funding

Principal investigators will receive grants of up to $100,000 per year for up to two years for innovative research on food and water challenges.

May 18, 2016

The J-WAFS Food and Water Conference included a startup showcase featuring nearly two dozen MIT-related and other local companies. The food and water sectors have experienced significant growth in startup activity, as indicated by the excellent turnout and interest.

J-WAFS conference reflects growing interest in food and water research

The MIT community turned out in force, along with attendees from the corporate, government, and nonprofit sectors.

May 9, 2016

“Migrants continue to consume the foods that were popular in their origin states, after they moved,” David Atkin says.

Counting calories

Migrants pay more for their home region’s cuisine, even when on the edge of malnutrition.

May 4, 2016

Team wins prize for bringing rentable refrigeration to India’s food supply chain

Modular boxes that keep food shipments fresh win Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize.

April 29, 2016

Split screen of pair of hands that hold grains on left and water on right. Bottom half shows the Earth.

J-WAFS to host inaugural conference

Program will feature advances in technologies at the nexus of food, water, and the environment.

April 13, 2016

The team was initially inspired by videos of chocolatiers making bonbons and other chocolate shells. Pedro Reis and his team wondered whether there was a way to precisely predict the final thickness of chocolate and other shells that start out as a liquid film.

How crispy is your bonbon?

New theory, inspired by chocolate coatings, predicts thickness of thin shells.

April 4, 2016

“If you’re the kind of person who bought something that really didn’t resonate with the market, say, coffee-flavored Coca-Cola, then that also means you’re more likely to buy a type of toothpaste or laundry detergent that fails to resonate with the market,” MIT professor Catherine Tucker says.

Are you a “harbinger of failure”?

Study: Some consumers have an unerring knack for buying unpopular products.

December 23, 2015

Representatives from the Americas, Europe, and Africa gathered at MIT for the first International Workshop on Alternative Potash, Nov. 10-12.

Potash: A silent crisis brews

Farmers in Africa and other tropical areas in the Southern Hemisphere are stripping potassium from soils without replacing it.

November 24, 2015

MIT postdoc Davide Ciceri holds a microfluidic device he designed to study leaching of potassium from the silicate mineral potassium feldspar.

Leaching study boosts potash alternative

Microfluidic experiments show feldspar releases potassium at a higher rate than expected, suggesting new possibilities for using ground rocks in agriculture.

November 10, 2015

The intelligent indoor Grove Ecosystem produces fresh vegetables, herbs, and small fruits year-round.

MIT startup brings urban agriculture indoors

Co-founders of the Somerville-based startup Grove enable people to grow their own produce with an intelligent indoor gardening appliance.

November 10, 2015

Agronomy researcher Maria Inês Lopes de Oliveira waters plants at an Embrapa greenhouse in Brazil, where experiments show a new potassium fertilizer, derived from potassium feldspar, promotes faster growth. Antoine Allanore, the Thomas B. King Assistant Professor of Metallurgy at MIT, developed the potash alternative from Brazilian feldspar. Lopes de Oliveira is a professor at the Federal Institu...

Seeking potash alternatives

International conference at MIT to focus on cooperative research efforts, alternatives to potassium salts for farming.

November 2, 2015

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