General information about sustainability and food:
National Geographic: Feeding 9 billion
Stockholm Environment Institute: Feeding 9 billion people possible, but only with more sustainable agriculture
The Economist: The 9 billion-people question
Datasets
Food purchases (available as open data as CSV)
Detailed food purchases for six months for a household of two, including product, category, organic certification, price, weight and country of origin.
Loads of international data resources from the UN
Food and Agricultue Organization (FAO) of UN statistics division
The world’s largest database on food, hunger and agricultural information
UN FAO GeoNetwork
Interactive Maps, GIS datasets, Satellite Imagery and Related Applications
The World Bank
APIs for indicators, projects, and WB financial data.
The World Bank – Climate change
Open data
Food Security
Lots of food data
World Health Organisation
Access to health and development goal data.
European Environment Agency
Data sets and maps
ELCD
EU lifecycle analysis data for materials, energy, transport and waste.
Programmable web
the Web’s defacto journal of the API economy.
Relevant existing applications and initiative
FoodTrade
A membership organisation matchmaking businesses to work together for a responsible and efficient food system.
Open source bee hives
Bringing open source to beekeeping.
Food Hackathon results
National Geographic
Plantwise
Plantwise knowledge bank