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Europe’s food system has come under unprecedented pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic that requires an urgent and coordinated response. As Europe’s leading food innovation initiative, EIT Food has launched two initiatives to support the…
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EIT Food has announced the 61 high-impact agrifood startups that have been selected to join the EIT Food Acceleration Network (EIT FAN) 2022. EIT Food is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the…
Generation Food Hackathon
Sat, November 9, 2019
Leuven, Belgium
How can we make sustainable and healthy food accessible for everyone?
- On the one hand, healthy and sustainable food is available, but usually more expensive. How can we provide sustainable, honest and healthy food and make sure it’s accessible and affordable for everyone? What are the different elements and business models that contribute to this?
- On the other hand, sustainable agricultural practices ask a lot from people producing food. Difficulties of finding the right market, getting the right price… are not new to farmers. How do we change this? Through new and unusual partnerships, innovative sustainable farming tools, more transparency,…?
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Sat, November 9, 2019 at 9:30 am
Leuven, Belgium
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