Standaarden, normen en keurmerken bepalen wie in de toekomst voor welke markt kan produceren, schreef ik eerder. Boeren, tuinders en telers raken gevangen in de netwerken van partijen die hen ‘ok’...
In February’s session of Digital Food, Sjaak Wolfert, Strategic Senior Scientist at Wageningen University, gives an idea of the fragmentation that often occurs in the stages of digital innovation...
De haven van Amsterdam is de grootste haven wereldwijd voor cacao. Doordat die stroom zo groot is, grijpt de haven deze aan om aan een eigen duurzaamheidsstandaard te werken. Mark Hoolwerf, area...
The State of the African Diaspora was designated as the 6th region of Africa, consisting of 350 million inhabitants, but with no borders. It is made up of generations of Africans that were made to...
Standards, labels, or ISO standards boring? Far from it. The digitalization of agriculture and the food industry is moving so fast that food makers and processors from large to small can no longer...
Standaards, keurmerken of ISO-normen saai? Verre van. De digitalisering van de landbouw en de voedingsindustrie gaat zo snel dat voedselmakers en -verwerkers van groot tot klein niet meer ontkomen...
Digitisation helps consumers, retailers, and food processors to promote and make more informed choices. A whole new storytelling service confirming products' quality is rapidly turning into a...
On Tuesday, April 13, the seventh chat in the Digital Food series took place. Cargill's Anke Hamminga explains how her company has developed its own metrics to achieve its goal: nourishing the world...
Large companies pay African farmers for their trees, since they sequester CO2. This way, the companies can compensate for their CO2 emissions and African farmers receive extra income. The idea is...
In the fifth chat of the Digital Food series, Tiffany Tsui asked her panel of African experts about challenges to organize trust, capital and infrastructure for African smallholder entrepreneurs....
"Agriculture is a science as much as it is an art." In December 2020, a group of farming and technology professionals came together in an online webinar to discuss the future of this art in Africa...
Tiffany Tsui discusses with hands on expert Dutch strawberry grower and advisor Jan Robben, TRUE Code-developer Marjan de Bock-Smit, Victoria Madedor (African Farmers Stories), and Dr Ikechi Agbugba...
In the near future, data will travel with products. Retailers and brands need fast, cheap, and reliable data. There are several platforms (blockchains, data lakes, ERP systems) that already contain...
Hans de Gier (SyncForce) explains the Consumer Goods Forum's Data Ports project. The project's goal is to make the myriad of product standards interoperable by a common basic taxonomy and connecting...
Hoe Boerproof is PlanetProof? Dat was de hoofdvraag tijdens het webinar dat Boerenbusiness en Foodlog donderdag 11 februari organiseerden. En die vraag moest nodig gesteld worden. Immers, de kritiek...
AgriFoodNetworks kicked off the Digital Food Series, focusing on the theme of connecting data, technology, and strategy, and to connect people, ideas, and regions. In the first digital chat of the...
IFAMA 2020 Goes Digital has come to an end, but the fruitful conversations we facilitated are just beginning! We engaged in over 60 digital chats over the course of the conference with people from...
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...
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...
'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 on the...
Emeritus WUR-professor Olaf van Kooten neemt na 10 jaar afscheid als lector Duurzame verbindingen aan de Hogeschool InHolland in Delft. In 2012 maakte hij vanaf Foodlog zijn inaugurele rede...
Op 17 november lanceerde de activistische Farmers Defence Force het Farmer Friendly-logo. Daarmee eisen ze 3% over de totale omzet van de Nederlandse supermarkten (verenigd in belangenkoepel CBL),...
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...
Bulle Koster is dierenarts en uitvinder. Hij bedacht onder meer de stal die dieren een kans geeft tegen brand. Afgelopen voorjaar bedacht hij samen met zijn technische partner Fred Dijkstra een zo...
"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...
