04. October 2018

NX-FOOD is METRO’s innovation hub for new food solutions. As part of the NX-FOOD initiative Start-up Shelf grants access to start-ups and their innovative products to selected markets of the wholesale and food specialist METRO in Germany and Austria as well as the hypermarket chain real, as part of a three-month market trial run.

11. September 2018

Nutritionists can play a vital role in solving some of the world's most pressing problems: obesity, poor nutrition on the one hand, and vitamin or mineral deficiencies on the other. Dr. Simone Frey is an ecotrophologist, has set up a start-up herself and worked with organizations such as UNICEF, Nestlé or BASF. In the run-up to Farm & Food 4.0, we talked to her about the concept of the startup accelerator "Future of Nutrition" and about promising business models in the food and agricultural sector.

09. August 2018

Christopher Braun is responsible for supporting start-ups in the AgTech/FoodTech sector. Due to the upcoming Farm & Food 4.0 event, we wanted him to tell us in which areas start-ups and established companies could best benefit from each other.

07. August 2018

As vice president of M&A / Head of Transactions, one of Dr. Alexander Wiegelmann's responsibilities at KWS SAAT SE is engaging with startups - from promoting collaborations through to proposing and commencing acquisitions. By what criteria does KWS SAAT select which startups they would like to partner with? What are the dos and don'ts when it comes to these types of collaborations?

03. January 2018

Farm & Food also opens up horizons in other industries to find out what the food and agricultural industries can learn from their development. This year, Daniel Krauss, co-founder and CIO of FlixBus, will give an insight into the impact of digitization on the mobility industry and what our industry can learn from it under the motto "The good, the bad and the disruptive".

05. December 2017

With a turnover of EUR 6.2 billion and around 6,200 employees, the AGRAVIS Group is one of the leading European agricultural trading and service companies. Of course, digitalisation also has a strong influence on agricultural trade - this will be the topic of a panel discussion at Farm & Food entitled "Changing trade".

17. November 2017

Review of the third Farm & Food Congress

The digitalisation has fully covered agriculture and the food industry. This can also be seen from the growing number of start-ups in these areas. These interesting and enthusiastic founders took part in Farm & Food in January 2017.