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42 results
2025
Affordable, accurate, detailed climate projections for climate-resilient agriculture in India
Sai Ravela, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Director of the MIT Earth Signals and Systems Group
Anamitra Saha, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Earth Signals and Systems Group
Food security in Africa through microbiome engineering
Christopher Voigt, Department of Biological Engineering
David L. Des Marais, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tami Lieberman, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institute for Medical Science and Engineering
Darcy McRose
Tavneet Suri, MIT Sloan School of Management
Sixian You, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2024
National crop type maps of India using deep learning and street view imagery
Sherrie Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Data, Systems, and Society
The role of livestock in climate change: Holistic greenhouse gas assessments and implications for human diets
César Terrer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2023
Advancing technology development to improve microbiome processes for controlling harmful bacteria blooms in aquaculture algae feed production
Michael Triantafyllou, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Otto X. Cordero, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Robert Vincent, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Sea Grant
Using secondary metabolites to manage legacy phosphorus
Darcy McRose
Optimizing cereal crop plant architecture during an era of high atmospheric CO2
David L. Des Marais, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Catalyzing sustainable food and climate systems transitions in the Lake Victoria Basin
Greg Sixt, Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab
Michael Hauser, Research Affiliate, Abdul Latif Jameel Water & Food Systems Lab
2022
Safe off-grid brooder for Cameroonian poultry farmers
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
Daniel Sweeney, MIT D-Lab
Cloud-based data applications for streamlining natural resource management
Michael Triantafyllou, Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Jameel Index for food trade and vulnerability
Greg Sixt, Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab
Kenneth Strzepek, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Center for Global Change Science
2021
Precise fish vaccine injection using silk-based biomaterials
Benedetto Marelli, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Improving smallholder farmers’ welfare with AI-driven technologies
Y. Karen Zheng, Sloan School of Management
Hybrid evaporative and radiative cooling as a passive low-cost high-performance solution for food shelf-life extension
Jeffrey C. Grossman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Evelyn Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Gang Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Converting dairy industry waste into food and feed ingredients
Gregory Stephanopoulos, Department of Chemical Engineering
Anthony J. Sinskey, Department of Biology
Mobile evaporative cooling rooms for vegetable preservation
Daniel Frey, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Leon Glicksman, Department of Architecture
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
2020
Using siderophore-conjugated microcins to combat foodborne pathogens
Elizabeth M. Nolan, Department of Chemistry
Multi-criteria diet formulation for sustainable swine production
Jasmina Burek, MIT Materials Systems Laboratory
Data-driven development of probiotics for shrimp aquaculture in Ecuador
Otto X. Cordero, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2019
Evaporative cooling technologies for fruit and vegetable preservation in Kenya
Daniel Frey, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Leon Glicksman, Department of Architecture
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
Designing supply chain platforms for smallholders in Indonesia
Joann de Zegher, Sloan School of Management
Piloting evaporative cooling technologies to improve vegetable shelf-life and farmer income in Western India
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
Anish Paul Antony, MIT D-Lab
Supporting the resilience of the citrus industry
Olivier de Weck, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
