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The Open Agriculture Initiative coined the term "Food Computer" to describe their main product. Originally developed under the MIT CityFARM project, [4] the Food Computer was a controlled-environment agriculture platform that used soilless agriculture technologies including hydroponic and aeroponic systems to grow crops indoors.
In August 2003, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the UK Department for International Development and the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization joined in a collaborative research project to look at bringing together livelihoods thinking with concepts from information and communication for development, in order to improve ...
Food engineering is a scientific, academic, and professional field that interprets and applies principles of engineering, science, and mathematics to food manufacturing and operations, including the processing, production, handling, storage, conservation, control, packaging and distribution of food products.
“The food industry is an excellent source of large and complex data sources with highly complex and multidisciplinary challenges, making it a prime application for artificial intelligence ...
content of menu options (so as to mimic proposed legislation). Our asymmetrically paternalistic intervention is conceptually similar to the proposal of Sunstein and Thaler (2003) that healthy food options be positioned first in cafeterias, thereby inducing consumers to take more healthy food without limiting the availability of other choices.
[6] [7] Research has shown that the new labels may influence consumer choices, but primarily if it provides unexpected information and that health-conscious consumers are resistant to changing behaviors based on menu labeling [7] Fast food restaurants are expected by the ERS to do better under the new menu labeling than full-service restaurants ...
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is an international, non-profit scientific society of professionals engaged in food science, food technology, and related areas in academia, government and industry. It has more than 17,000 members from more than 95 countries.
Food technology is a branch of food science that addresses the production, preservation, quality control and research and development of food products. It may also be understood as the science of ensuring that a society is food secure and has access to safe food that meets quality standards.