EIT Food

Join us at our largest event yet, Next Bite: Building the Future of Food Together. This unique gathering will bring together the world’s leading food innovators, thought leaders, and pioneers. 🌟 Let’s have a conversation around how our food choices and production methods can enhance our lives while caring for the planet. 🌎

Have you ever wondered how the food we eat can shape our journey through the years? 🍏✨ What about our openness to adopting food and dietary innovations? 🍽️ Understanding these aspects is crucial for developing effective strategies that foster consumer trust and tackles barriers hindering healthier, sustainable diets. 🌱 We will explore this and much more at our largest event yet, #NextBite24: Building the Future of Food Together, where we will dive deep into the intersection of food and health. This unique gathering will feature game-changers in food systems transformation and bring together the world’s leading food innovators, thought leaders, and pioneers. 🌟 Let’s have a conversation around how our food choices and production methods can enhance our lives while caring for the planet. 🌎 https://lnkd.in/d9txwVmk What role do you think technology and innovations, such as AI and personalised nutrition, will play in this journey? 🤔 #ImprovingFoodTogether #FutureOfFood #SustainableDiets

Water is vital for livelihoods, #FoodSecurity, and #ClimateResilience. But challenges like rising food demand and unsustainable agriculture threaten it. On #WorldWaterWeek, let’s remember that what we eat, and how that food is produced, all affect water. We need to stop taking this precious finite resource for granted. 💧🥕 We are proud to have so many innovative members of our community helping to preserve water, such as: 🌌 Finapp – Using cosmic rays to measure water. ☀️ AGUA DE SOL – Turning air into water thanks to the sun. 🚽 TOOPI ORGANICS – Turning human urine into a resource for agriculture. 🛰️ constellr – Using satellite global water monitoring for a growing planet. 🌿 Plantae – Using sensors and precision agriculture to optimise irrigation and crop productivity. 💦 ONDO | Smart Farming Solutions – Offering automated systems for precise irrigation, fertigation, and climate control. How can we support & scale innovations in sustainable water management? 💧🌱 #ImprovingFoodTogether

Female presence in managing Venture Capital Funds in Europe is low, particularly in senior positions, with only 15% of female GPs and over 80% of investment committees being all male. 🚫👩💼 These numbers need to change. Diverse teams make better investment decisions. 💪💡 So, how can we tackle this? 1️⃣ Empowering women to start a career in venture investment. 2️⃣ Connecting investors with a diverse pool of talented women who will bring fresh perspectives to their teams. At EIT, we're committed to changing this narrative. That's why we launched the Women2Invest initiative as part of the Supernovas programme, aiming to make the entrepreneurship ecosystem more gender-balanced. 🌟 Learn more 👉 https://lnkd.in/dcz4WSuG #ImprovingFoodTogether #FutureOfFood #WomenEqualityDay

For millennia, we lived in harmony with nature. But modern agriculture is destroying the very habitat we depend on. 🌍 Intensive farming releases 30% of all greenhouse gases and erodes 24 billion tones of topsoil every year. 🚜 That is an area the size of Greece! But what if the solution lay right beneath our feet? 🌱 #RegenerativeAgriculture restores the natural rhythm of our ecosystem, reviving landscapes for generations to come. 🌿 By working with nature, we can produce more nutritious food, more resilient crops, and less wasted water. 🥕 Regenerative farming is a profitable, sustainable system that makes sense for farmers and food-lovers alike. 🍏 We need to enable farmers and producers to lead the transition to regenerative agriculture, and we are working with the #agrifood community to help them develop their skills and test new technologies. 🛰️ 👉 https://lnkd.in/dw4eGRsX What other regenerative characters would you add to the list? #ImprovingFoodTogether #FutureOfFood #SustainableFood

Startups play a fundamental role in building a future-fit food system that produces healthy and sustainable food for all. 🌱 However, the entrepreneurial path in the agrifood sector is not always an easy one. From crafting business propositions and validating markets to accelerating business growth, validating technology, and scaling up commercially — startup founders face numerous challenges. 💡🚀 On World Entrepreneurs' Day, we celebrate all entrepreneurs in our #EITFoodCommunity and beyond who have faced countless obstacles yet stayed on track with determination, turning their visions into reality and creating a more resilient and sustainable food system. 🌍👏 How can we help more innovators launch, accelerate, or scale up their solutions? 🤔 https://lnkd.in/dU6j2Xue

By 2030, one in six people worldwide will be aged 60 years or over, increasing from 1 billion in 2020 to 1.4 billion. By 2050, this number is expected to double to 2.1 billion, with the number of people aged 80 and older tripling to 426 million. 🌍 Living older and healthier is a privilege to which all human beings should have access; nevertheless, it’s out of reach to the vast majority. How can we identify gaps, barriers, and opportunities for maintaining the health and well-being of the ageing population? 🔍 We launched our Healthy Ageing Think & Do Tank to focus on prevention through food, aligned with our first mission: Healthier Lives through Food. 🌱 The Healthy Ageing Think & Do Tank brings together strategic and delivery partners from across Europe to foster effective collaboration, knowledge sharing, and impactful initiatives that accelerate #FoodSystem transformation to promote #HealthyAgeing. It’s a catalyst for meaningful dialogue and action towards improving key areas such as malnutrition, gut microbiome, personalised nutrition, immunity enhancement, women’s health, and mental health. 🌟 “We want to contribute to creating opportunities to live long and healthy and extending wellbeing for all ages, regardless of date of birth," says Begoña Pérez Villarreal, Director EIT Food South Region. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d5ahHvw9 #ImprovingFoodTogether #FutureOfFood #HealthyDiets #SustainableFood

It's always a shock to recall that approximately 40% of food is going to waste (WWF). 🍎🗑️ The amount of food lost and wasted could feed 1.26 billion hungry people every year (FAO), providing people with access to affordable, healthy diets and helping address many diet-related health issues worldwide. 🌍🍽️ Food waste and loss are complex challenges that impact the entire #agrifood supply chain, with significant environmental, economic, and social effects. Reducing food waste would lead to significant economic savings, benefiting producers, retailers, and consumers alike. The World Resources Institute (WRI) estimates that the global economic value of food wasted annually is about US$1 trillion. 🥗 Decreasing food waste and loss would also help preserve natural resources and reduce environmental degradation associated with food production, such as deforestation, water pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. What solutions are needed to help tackle #FoodWaste and #FoodLoss? 🔄🌿 👉 https://lnkd.in/dn8sEPq7 #ImprovingFoodTogether #FutureOfFood #SustainableFood

Technology is transforming how the agrifood industry works. This is creating a demand for new skills.🌾💻 However, the #agrifood system is falling behind the curve in adopting digital technologies.📉 The #FoodSystems are complex and require advanced digital skills to navigate tech solutions.🌐 Food systems must upskill and reskill workers to bridge the skills gap and ensure the industry harnesses technology to build #RegenerativeFoodSystems for the future. In the field of agrifood technology, which skills are currently in high demand? How can we bridge the skills gap? 🌱📚 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dVpHScNY

What are the consequences of obtaining 90% of the world’s food calories from a handful of plants? 🌱🌾🌿 Intensive agriculture of these crops leads to reduced biodiversity: since the 1900s, some 75% of plant genetic diversity has been lost to genetically uniform, high-yielding varieties. Maize, wheat and rice production is also becoming increasingly vulnerable to #ClimateChange and extreme weather events threatening global #FoodSecurity. 🌍🔥 At the same time, there's a whole world of forgotten crops that can offer innovative solutions. They can offer a richer array of micronutrients, fiber, and proteins, while helping to restore #SoilHealth, and reducing inputs such as water and fertilisers. 💧 Read the full article on FoodUnfolded 👉 https://lnkd.in/eBt-m9xX How can we help build more robust, diverse, and nutritionally rich #FoodSystems? #ImprovingFoodTogether #FutureOfFood #SustainableFood Article by Benedetta Gori