The Not So Infinite Sea
August 17, 2009
William Shakespeare once penned: “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite.” We are fast
Category: Food and Drink
In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.
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A Rose by Any Other Name Might Smell as Sweet, but Would It Sell? Consider the Slimehead
August 11, 2009
In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the two fated lovers are trapped in a family feud not of their making. Juliet laments that Romeo is a Montague and not, like her, a
Big Brother meets Animal Farm
July 27, 2009
Perhaps nothing is more important to humankind that ensuring that its food and water supplies are safe and secure. The occasional flare-ups of “mad cow disease” that have caused panic and have
Food Crisis and Recession
July 22, 2009
In 2007 and the beginning of 2008 (before the global recession began grabbing all of the headlines), the global crisis most discussed involved a shortage of food and the resulting high food
Buying the Farm
June 10, 2009
In my post Food and Water Shortages in the Middle East, I cited an article that reported “several oil-rich nations, including Saudi Arabia, have started searching for farmland in fertile but politically
Exploiting Limited Resources
June 4, 2009
In a previous post [Water Challenges in Israel], I discussed how Israel is using technology to get the most from its limited water resources. Water, of course, is not the only resource
Fine African Coffee
May 11, 2009
When one hears the term “sub-Saharan Africa,” the first things that normally jump into one’s mind are poverty, corruption, and conflict. Probably the last thing that one thinks about is upscale food
Cooking and Climate
April 27, 2009
Twenty years ago Donald Johnson, an animal-nutrition specialist at Colorado State University, published a study about how much methane gas is emitted by cows and how that release of gas could adversely
Harvesting Sustainable Development
October 15, 2008
My colleague Tom Barnett directed my attention to an interesting article through his Weblog entitled Another example of P2P “UDA.” The article discusses how wheat from America’s heartland helps foster development in
Globalizing Poor Farmers
September 26, 2008
Two years ago I wrote a post focused on the announcement that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation had teamed with the Rockefeller Foundation to tackle food security in Africa. Their plan
