Category: Short Food Webs

Ruud Zanders, the revolutionary poultry farmer about the role of animals in feeding the world

An interview with Ruud Zanders of Kipster, diving deep into the question: What is the role of animals in the food system of the future (if any)?

Victor Friedberg, 30m available for food moonshots

Victor Friedberg is co-founder of FoodShot Global (www.foodshot.org) a platform catalysing food system innovation. FoodShot is an ecosystem of world-class, mission aligned venture funds, banks, corporate strategic investors, and foundations that provide equity, debt, non-dilutive capital, and industry resources.

Dirk Aleven – Can investing in soil less, greenhouses in Ukraine be regenerative?

Dirk Aleven, founder of FoodVentures, a company leveraging the knowledge of the high tech green house industry in the Netherlands and bringing it do countries where like Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Malaysia etc. the middle class is demanding fresh, sustainable vegetables in their local supermarkets.

Eric Jackson – Doing over 150M in sales of organic grain and soy, started 18mon ago

Eric Jackson is CEO of Pipeline Foods. A conversation about large scale conversion of land to organic farming and what holds farmers back while the demand is growing so rapidly.

Peter Donovan – The wonders of soil and asking better questions when investing in it

Peter Donovan of Soil Carbon Coalition has developed a sampling methodology for taking soil carbon samples. A lesson on soil and all its wonders.

Volkert Engelsman: “Organic isn’t too expensive, chemical is too cheap”

The biggest threat to sustainability is anonymity. Recorded at the office of Eosta a conversation with Volkert Engelsman, CEO of Eosta, international distributor of fresh organic and fair fruits and vegetables.

Shameek Chakravarty, left Amazon to start a real life FarmVille in rural India

Shameek Chakravarty is the cofounder of Farmizen based in Bangalore India, on Farmizen everyone can rent mini-plots of farmland close to the city.

Osvaldo de Falco, connecting Italian organic fruit farmers directly to consumers

How do we pay a fair price to our farmers? If not they can’t take care of our land. An interview with Osvaldo de Falco, co-founder of Biorfarm, a platform which connects Italian organic fruit farmers directly to the end customers, while paying the farmers a fair price.

Ethan Soloviev: As demand for regenerative agriculture skyrockets, is there enough supply?

Ethan Soloviev is an international expert on regenerative agriculture, a farmer, writer, and the Vice President of Research at HowGood, Inc.