‘We want to eliminate the psychological barriers to healthy eating’

Can food be your medicine? The participants in the Agrifoodnetworks-series have no doubt the answer is affirmative: 86% of the audience responded positively. But how do you put this into practice? Dutch food tech startup Verdify has the answer. Based...

2022 Wrap: Our Appreciation to our Heroes

There is no better way to end 2022 than to celebrate the farmers, who made food availability possible throughout the year. In the faces of many challenges, they are still tilling the soil and raising various livestock for food.

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Join us every last Tuesday of the month for our chats in the Digital Food series. Moderator Tiffany Tsui invites her guests to present an quintessentia use case. Save these dates. Next up: Solidaridad: Fair Farm Data and CSRD.

Food Security: Improving Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Sharing Among Farmers

We consciously celebrate the doggedness of the farmers from the various communities in the developing countries that produce food we consume all through the year. Having to go to the market to make food choices has been made possible by the assiduous...

Agric Plans Without Focus on Smallholder Farmers Show Lower Impact

19.4 million Nigerians are food insecure, and this number is expected to double as flooding issues have worsened the hunger crisis in the country. Supporting smallholder farmers to play a greater role in food production and natural resource...

No Farmer should Lack in Prosperity

Ongoing global crisis has not inhibited the production of food due to the resilience in farmers which has exposed other areas that needs to be discussed. In the last few months, the costs of inputs have skyrocketed, including cost of labour which...

Food Security: When there is Hope, there are Ways!

Farming is a legacy occupation that has existed for many centuries in the world, in which mankind has benefited tremendously directly and indirectly from it. Incredibly, it has created wealth and a source of livelihood for many people. However, the...

ALDI knows what creates consumer trust

Sustainability labels are proliferating. Will there ever be a universal label that is easily understood and fools nobody? During a recent Agrifoodnetworks webinar on ALDI's choice for PlanetProof, 71% of the participants said they thought so; 29%...

Food Security: How Patient Can Capital Be?

Everyday, we are confronted with the reality that the World population is increasing at the rate at which food production cannot match it. Worse still, farmers who are the only solution that can solve this challenge do not have adequate resources to...

No Farmer, No Nation

Food is our common heritage, and provides leverage for the productivity of any nation. It is a strong statement that shows that food security is one of the major components of nation building.

Half of wildfires result in dust events or storms

Wildfires affect large areas of the Earth’s surface and many of their effects occur at an alarming speed. The fires that consumed half of Australia’s Kangaroo Island in 2019 left a trail of animal corpses in their wake. In 2021, wildfires burned...

Food Security: Women Inclusion Matters

Women are key stakeholders in the agricultural sector, providing support services in production and actively participating in processing and trading; contributing to the economic growth and development of the nation.