‘Insects’ Future Food
It is expected that by 2050, 50-70% of the world population will be living in urban areas. The World Wildlife Fund says that in 1986 the number of humans alive reached Earth’s natural carrying...
View ArticleRural Entrepreneurs
In 2013 De Rabobank published the book The Future of Farming – The rise of the rural entrepreneur about the global food security topic. We had a discussion with Edwin van Raalte, co-author of the book...
View ArticleCybernated Farms
Douglas Mallette, a former system engineer at a Space Shuttle program at NASA, decided to start a complete new farm of the future. The company is called Cybernated Farm Systems. While meeting him, we...
View Article‘Making More Beetles’
Anders Sandberg is a James Martin Research Fellow at the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute. I met him years ago on a conference where we both were speakers. Anders holds a PH.D. in computional...
View ArticleFlight Paths to Sustainability
We are standing in the start blocks. Not on the athletic track, ready to run yet another lap, but on the well-grounded, running bare-footed through the fresh grass of a new era. The seeds of new ideas...
View ArticleA Journey Through Three Continents
I see, I feel, I listen and I capture the experiences of my journey, as I travel through three continents. My upbringing in India and foreign travels narrate the chapter one, Glocal Nomad. Focusing...
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Each weekend this Oktober: The Rolling Kitchens
Every weekend in October, tens of mobile kitchens will descend upon the Amsterdam Forrest (het Amsterdamse Bos) to create an enormous open air restaurant! The different food trucks include Joeri...
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MOYEE Coffee
The Dutch start-up Moyee introduces the first FairChain coffee. FairChain like Fairtrade 2.0. What is Fairchain? And why? Right now this very minute 85% of total coffee value disappears into the...
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Restaurant Trust; pay as much as you feel
Near the famous AlbertCuyp-market in Amsterdam, is a new type of restaurant where you are the one who decides the price. This creative concept is worked out well by a group of individuals and Hilary’s...
View ArticleEthics in Agriculture
I will start off this article by stating that this is not a scientific research paper loaded with numbers and data to make you go cross eyed. There already exists a large body of work from NGO’s,...
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