Transforming the Agricultural Value Chain
Senior Industry Leaders Will Share Their Insights
The agri-food sector is having to marshal all its ingenuity, technology, and collective might to rise to the dual challenges of an intensifying climate crisis and burgeoning world population. Making the way we grow and consume food more sustainable is central to food systems transformation, and hinges on the whole value chain pulling together.
Hosted by the Financial Times, in partnership with Bayer, this panel discussion explored the innovative approaches transforming the future of farming, and evaluate the cutting-edge technologies driving down costs, increasing sustainable productivity, the implications of the EU Green Deal, and how this adds value throughout the food value chain.
Key Takeaways
Smart Agriculture
Technological innovation, essential to enabling and accelerating positive change, is taking place at an unprecedented rate and across the agri-food value chain. The sector is, however, still struggling to embrace technology and data-enabled innovation and to see the future business opportunities. Many still see these as tools to help them play the same game better, rather than seeing them as changing the game.
Working With The Whole Value Chain
Food is part of a big, complex system. As the current crisis demonstrates, when the system breaks down, the production and distribution of food can be quickly disrupted and disaster looms. That said, there is eagerness from stakeholders across the whole value chain to work together, to formalise partnerships, and to work day-in-day-out in order to increase the pace of change. Government has an essential role in creating an environment within which collaboration across the value chain can thrive. The EU Green Deal is a good example of this.
The Future of Farming
We can't fix food systems without our farmers, who are by far the single most important stakeholder in the agri-food ecosystem. Business, science, and policy need a more agile platform for dialogue to ensure coordination and rapid impact. This must include the finance sector because it is still too far removed from the impact side to know how to invest effectively.
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