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Food
Making rice green
Traditional rice farming techniques are not sustainable. But how do you change a process that’s deeply ingrained in culture, for a crop that nourishes half the world?
Hidden ingredients in food choice
What factors influence which foods you pick up at the supermarket or pack into your lunchbox? Carola Grebitus studies consumer food choices and how they relate to health and sustainability.
Better living – and eating – through plants
ASU research shows how to make plants produce more food, even in drought or salty soil. But there are challenges to getting this work off—or into—the ground.
CENAS sets the stage for setting a healthy table
Cooking and theater-making as part of the ASU CENAS program empowers participants to connect to their cultural heritage and make healthy behavior changes.
Bee-free pollination
More than 100 agricultural crops in the U.S. rely on bees for pollination. But bees are dying off at more then twice the sustainable rate. A team of ASU students has developed an innovative alternative.
For a human problem, a humanities solution
A group of scholars at Arizona State University is addressing long-term sustainability problems by using a potent combination of humanistic scholarship and scientific research.
The flip side of food
Humans produce an unprecedented amount of waste. Finding ways to reduce it takes some creative thinking.
Room to grow: Agriculture in urban spaces
How do we feed our cities in a sustainable way? ASU researchers find creative ways to eke out edibles in an urban environment.
ASU Discovers: Promoting prevention
ASU researchers are combining theater, cooking demonstrations and hands-on learning to transform the way people think about food.
Gut reaction: Morality in food choice
How do you decide what to eat? ASU researchers from diverse backgrounds discuss how food is connected to ethics.
