The past few decades have seen an influx of new data and digitisation trends that have emerged in the dairy, agricultural, and other farming sectors. These new technologies and the data they provide...
Join us on Wednesday January 20 from 1:30 PM till 2:45 PM (CET) for the first digital chat in the Digital Food series. You'll have a great first glimpse of the challenges of the brave new world that...
What is natural capital? What does a natural capital approach to production and consumption mean for producers, consumers, governments, the environment, and everything in between? In this chat with...
IFAMA 2020 Goes Digital ends by December 31. Foodlog hosted it. The harvest has been wonderful. Four major projects grew out of it. The Leiden/Delft/Erasmus/Wageningen team and Foodlog will nurture...
Let’s talk about space! Why, space? Well, food production, like horticulture, can learn a lot from space exploration and the concept of living in space. And vice versa. That’s why we will present...
“Africa is the continent where tourism thrives.” Dr. Amarachi Amaugo led a discussion facilitated by Osiri University on tourism and business marketing in Africa. Along with colleague Dr. Adrienne Muldrow, she interviewed guests Paul Womango and...
The Netherlands has a reputation for being the tiny nation that feeds the world. However, the current agricultural production and food system must undergo significant changes and reorganise. Krijn Poppe asks the question - is an alternative farming...
As the COVID-19 pandemic becomes a (hopefully temporary) “new normal”, other crises come back into view. In the Netherlands, it was nitrogen that had been causing headaches for politicians and policy-makers in 2019. The country’s policy on...
What is an ‘entrepreneurial tribe’? At first glance, the phrase could cause confusion. It sounds like an oxymoron in the context of the 21st century. In fact, however, the entrepreneurial tribe is a concept that may be the answer to giving...
The African Farmers Stories, a platform to profile farmers across the continent and to examine and acknowledge their critical role in feeding the continent, took to Twitter in a tweet chat hosted by Edobong Akpabio of Agrocentre. He spoke with Samson...
"How can the sustainability, productivity, and market access of smallholder sugar cane farmers be improved?" That was the main question in the IFAMA2020 Essay Challenge. In the live session the 26th of November from 11.30 until 12.00 (CET) Anathi...
"The jewel in the crown of Dutch horticulture is not the produce- it’s the technology that produces the produce. And wouldn’t one expect that that is where the real value is? Why? Because that’s where the intellectual property is - that’s...
