#CROP27: The Critical Food Connection
With food finally on the agenda of COP27, #CROP27: The Critical Food Connection showcases the diversity of food innovation - and the people behind the solutions - to highlight their crucial role in climate dialogues and action.
Food systems need to be an integral part of international climate dialogues if we want to limit global warming and save our planet for future generations. Not only do sustainable food systems provide an opportunity for reducing our collective greenhouse gas emissions, but they also provide the opportunity to have a positive impact on our environment. COP27 will mark a key point in this journey, with the climate community coming together in Egypt to discuss mitigation and solutions, and the food systems community joining them for the first time.
COP27 will see the first Food Systems Pavilion take place where actions, strategies, and solutions across the entire food value chain will be addressed. Despite this great progress, it is crucial that food systems are considered across all climate dialogues - at COP27 and beyond - as a holistic solution to the growing environmental challenges we are facing. Sustainability challenges are often tackled in isolation, but we now have a unique opportunity to come together, from different locations, sectors and backgrounds, to tackle these challenges as a whole.
Sitting at the core of this, and one of the key routes to transforming our food system, is innovation. Innovation offers diverse solutions to deliver a more sustainable and healthier food system. Many of these solutions already exist, but they need scaling up, speeding up and increased awareness.
#CROP27: The Critical Food Connection showcases the diversity of food innovation - and the people behind the solutions - to highlight their crucial role in climate dialogues and action. Food production has become so much more than cultivating the land, and food innovation must be at the centre of climate conversations.
Meet the innovators transforming the food system below!
Magdalena Kozłowska: NapiFeryn BioTech
Maarten Vandecruys: Urban Crop Solutions
Isaac Berzin: Vaxa
Thomas Houwers: Farm21
Carrol Plummer: Vivent
Atilla Öztürk: Grawindy Renewable Energy Technologies
Andrea Crucian: Agricolus
Juan Pablo de Giacomi: Innomy
Aviaja Riemann-Andersen: Circular Food Technology
Andrew Diprose: RootWave
Taly Nechushtan: InnovoPro
Benedicte O'Sullivan: Fyteko
Maarten Bosch: Mosa Meat
Lynette Kucsma: Natural Machines
Sushma Shankar: Deep Planet
Ilan Samish: Sugar-Out, Prot-In
Nathalie Rolland: Nutropy
Alfred Grand: GRAND FARM
Miha Pipan: Better Origin
Alison Stille: Walding Foods
Alyssa Blachez: DryGro
Xavier Marcenac: Nasekomo
Claudio Reinhard: PHENOLIVA
Esben Rimi Christiansen: Pure Algae
Fernando Bañón Izu: SanLucar
Share your own food innovation stories on social media using #CROP27
From new ideas to big projects, we want to hear all about the food innovation solutions that are transforming the food system!
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