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An Introduction to Food System Entrepreneurship
Module 1 Food Systems Impact
Module 2 Setting your entrepreneurial mindset
Module 3 Design Thinking
These six focus areas are aligned with and contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They represent the most promising areas where EIT Food, together with our startup community, can drive long-term positive change to make the food system more sustainable, healthy and trusted.
Protein is a key issue for the future of our food. If we’re going to feed our fast-growing global population, then we need to find sustainable ways of producing new, high quality, safe and healthy proteins.
The latest advances in areas like nutrigenetics, gut microbiota and metabolomics mean we can now adapt what we eat to take account of both overall population traits and our own lifestyles, allergies, and intolerances. This can significantly improve our health.
New technologies including blockchain, the internet of things, and food sensing technologies, are making it easier to digitalise traceability. This can improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of food, so increase consumer trust.
Crop and livestock productivity will both have to increase in order to meet our future food needs. They’ll need to do so sustainably because food production has a significant impact on the global environment, producing approximately 26% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide (Science, 2018).
Aquaculture could meet up to two-thirds of global seafood consumption by 2030, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO, 2014). However, globally, aquaculture practices are often inefficient and can have a significant impact on the environment.
We need to move away from our current linear model of ‘make, use, and dispose’, to a circular food system where we use resources more efficiently and re-use side and waste streams.
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