09. January 2019
Arla Foods sets new standards in quality management and transparency, e.g. by implementing blockchain technology. We discussed this with VP Germany Markus Mühleisen, one of the speakers at Farm&Food 4.0.
08. January 2019
Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) is a registered association in Potsdam that researches the way biological and technical systems interact in agriculture and nutrition. As the head of the Engineering for Crop Production department, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Cornelia Weltzien together with her team works to develop new technologies and processes for the sustainable, resource-efficient creation of plant-based products.
21. December 2018
It sounds like science fiction: Growing your steak in a petri dish, outside of animals. However, this is exactly what Aleph Farms, a startup based in Israel, have been working on. They are not the first ones to grow clean meat outside of animals, but they are implementing new technology that could eventually lead to drastically lower production costs. Didier Toubia, CEO of Aleph Farms, will be speaking at Farm & Food 4.0 conference in Berlin, 21 January 2019. We asked him about the technology and the next step towards market-readiness.
12. December 2018
Companies in agribusiness and food industry nowadays need meta competencies like sensing abilities, according to Prof. Stefanie Bröring with University of Bonn. Find out more at Farm&Food 4.0 in Berlin and in our pre-show interview.
28. November 2018
Dr. Josef Bosch is the Managing Director of FarmFacts GmbH, a subsidiary of BayWa. FarmFacts is a pioneer in digital farming and is a partner of the Farm&Food 4.0 Conference. We spoke with Dr. Josef Bosch about the opportunities and hurdles of digitalisation in agriculture.
26. November 2018
How about a tasty burger - not made from beef, but bred in petri dishes? Strictly speaking, in a bio-reactor, but made from tasty stem cells from cattle, pigs or poultry? What sounds strange now could solve some of the problems of factory farming in the future. The topic will - of course - also be discussed at the Farm & Food 4.0 conference in Berlin.
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.
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?
