Food & Agriculture

I, for one, liked the SunChips bag. I wasn’t annoyed by the sound; found it quite endearing, actually.  Maybe it’s because, as a marketer, I thought the idea was spot on Read More

A study by researchers at the University of Texas finds that the embedded energy in wasted food is equal to 2 percent of the nation's annual energy budget; cutting food waste would save 350 million barrels of oil per year. Read More

Green means go for shoppers seeking fish caught in the wild in sustainable and responsible ways, in a new project unveiled by the natural foods grocer in partnership with the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute. Read More

Burger King has become the latest company to stop buying palm oil from Sinar Mas, an embattled Indonesian company its critics accuse of deforestation. Read More

 Nestlé is investing nearly $350 million over the next decade to expand its reach into sustainable coffee farming, make its factories more efficient and reduce its packaging. Beyond the Cup: The Nescafe Plan is the company's global project that adds onto the nearly $200 million already spent on coffee project in previous years. Read More

Businesses can invest in local social and environmental projects to halt or reserve desertification, engage with suppliers to reduce degradation, and create products that improve agricultural sustainability and enable restoration of damaged land. Read More

Sainsbury's has invested in new technology that will allow the retailer to make real-time supply chain decisions to reduce food waste caused by unexpected weather. Read More

Calling the connection between manure and computing a "symbiotic relationship," a new research paper from HP Labs outlines how a mid-sized dairy farm can power a one-megawatt data center. Read More

Nestle moved aggressively to clean up its palm oil supply chain Monday, following months of heated social media campaigns drawing attention to its supply chain ties to illegal deforestation practices. Read More

In the latest sign of how forestry and paper issues are coming to the fore for companies in almost all industries, the fast food chain is currently under fire from environmental groups for using virgin forests to supply the paper for its packaging. Read More