🌟 As the iconic #GlastonburyFestival kicks off today in the UK, we're reminiscing about that time when UN Environment Programme named the TFF Summit one of the "Top 5 Environmentally-Aware Events in the World to Have on Your Radar"— along with major multi million dollar events like Glastonbury and #Lollapalooza! 🎉😲 (link to the blog in comments) It's no surprise, really. Our events were truly extraordinary, setting new standards in sustainability, inclusivity, creativity, innovation, inspiration, and community. We redefined what events could be! 🌍✨ Did you get to experience a TFF Summit? Which one was your favorite? Share your vote in the comments below with the corresponding emoji, and let us know a memory that sticks with you! ⬇️ 🪩 Berlin's 'Uproot the Status Quo' 🚀 Lisbon's 'What's Your Moonshot?' 🤔 Zurich's 'Uprooting Assumptions' 🔮 Amsterdam's 'What's Nexxxt' 🌈 Rio's 'Multispectral Thinking' 🌏 Global’s ‘TFF Challenge Finale’ 🍎 Rome’s ‘Generation Food’ 🗽 Brooklyn's 'Generation Fest' Missed out on one of our amazing events? Don't worry—relive the magic of TFF with our aftermovies! Generation Fest is posted here, and the rest are in the comments. 🎥✨
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Thought For Food is the world’s next gen innovation engine for food and agriculture. We create, empower and support a new generation of leaders to solve our planet’s most pressing challenge: How to sustainably feed 10 billion people? In 2011, Thought For Food launched the world’s first innovation platform for food and agriculture. We spearheaded a comprehensive program to engage thousands of young people from all corners of the world to take on the challenge of feeding the world, and empower them to become entrepreneurs. Today, we worked with 15,000+ young leaders, catalyzed the creation of thousands of new ideas and launched the world’s most game-changing social-impact startups. Most importantly, we built a unique culture driven forward by a highly-engaged global community that focuses on collaboration, diversity, creativity and fun to create transformational change. The TFF Community brings together scientists, poets, chefs, artists, social entrepreneurs, biohackers, and more. We are thrilled to see that the world has caught on to what we started - food and ag is now a hot innovation area, and there are plenty of competitions, accelerators, events and investments happening in this space. The topic of the next generation is also gaining traction, and we are thrilled to see leaders from our TFF Community scaling their ideas, gaining leadership roles in the industry and commanding stages the world over to share their perspectives. There is much more to be done. When we evaluate what the world needs and what we bring, we see our role in creating, empowering and supporting the next generation of innovators, meeting them at every stage of their journeys - from ideation through to investment. We are building our global footprint to equip young people everywhere at anytime with the mindset, values, approaches and connections they need to be successful changemakers - and support them to navigate the critical early stages of their professional lives.
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- Zivilgesellschaftliche und soziale Organisationen
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- 2011
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- foodsecurity, socialstartups, entrepreneurship, food & ag, education und startuptraining
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Hi Friends & Supporters! As you know, we’re transitioning Thought For Food into a decentralized, community-powered movement. 🤩 One of our key steps is closing our current newsletter to reallocate resources toward more impactful community initiatives. But no worries! You can continue to engage with us RIGHT HERE on LinkedIn to stay informed about all the TFF Community is up to! Be sure to activate notifications. (We're also super active on Instagram). ➡️ Most importantly, be sure to register for the new mailing list at https://lnkd.in/gpV9PajD 🔥 See you soon, TFF Transition Committee #change #mailinglist #updates #register #community
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Happy Mother's Day to all the different types of mammas out there. 💐 A simple message from our TFF archives that is relevant today and every day - reminding us to take care of those we love and who love us - and especially our ultimate, precious, awe-inspiring, ever-abundant Mother Earth. "We don't need to destroy it. It's just like your mother, you have one mother, take care of her" 💚🌏
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Happy #EarthDay from Thought For Food! 🌎🌱 Join our Instagram LIVE special for Earth Day, featuring our TFF Transition Committee today (more details below). #EarthDay2024 theme is Planet vs. Plastics and we’re proud to bring back an unforgettable memory from our sustainable plastic-free in-person event #TFFgenerationfest. We experimented a bold new ideas and approaches to prove that #sustainability isn’t restrictive, but rather something enhancing for all. With this ambitious event, our measures of success were to optimize human connection, #creativity, and positive impact. 📖 Read more about our #sustainable strategy for GenerationFest here: https://lnkd.in/gwRBdC6b 🎥 Check out ALL of the GenerationFest speakers session (complete with summaries) ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gWpKJBiD 🔴 Connect with our team and hear the latest updates on TFF’s transition to become a decentralized, community-powered movement today on #TFFearthday LIVE on Instagram, April 22nd at 12pm CET and 7pm CET 👉 https://lnkd.in/ggUqduV8
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🌍 Happy Earth Day, friends! The theme of #EarthDay2024 is "Planet versus Plastics." It seems the perfect time to consider the opportunity of #multispectralthinking for solution-building. 'Versus' is such a binary, black-and-white term—us versus them; good versus bad; one way is right, one way is wrong. Thinking like this makes it harder to bring to life comprehensive solutions that we can ALL work together towards. Plastic pollutes our oceans and overflows our landfills. Yet it's convenient, cheap, and versatile, making it indispensable for daily life—from preserving our food to the device you're reading this on. Enter multispectral thinkers. 🤩 They're creating better biomaterials and systems that give us the benefits of plastic (safety, convenience, hygiene, protection) without the unintended consequences. Here are a few awesome startups to check out: 🌊B'ZEOS: home-compostable packaging from regeneratively grown seaweed 🥡Infinity Box: circular food delivery system with reusable containers 🪶PluumoPlus: thermal packaging made from surplus feathers 🌱Atacama Biomaterials: renewable plastics from diverse, regional biomass 🧋Ooble Innovations: edible straws 🌽 LAM'ON OOD: bio-based thermal laminating films 🍄 Ecovative - the mycelium technology company: mycelium packaging 🌾 MY OrigoEco: cutlery and packaging pallets made from rice waste 👩🏻💻 Source Green: marketplace that connects brands with sustainable packaging solutions. The best part? All of these teams are tailoring their solutions to local communities while pushing forward global industries. They're building a #circulareconomy that supports farmers, benefits consumers, and regenerates ecosystems. 💪 ➡️ For more insights into how #multispectralthinking can drive your innovation potential and food system transformation, check out my newly updated book, "The Change-Maker’s Guide to Feeding the Planet" ‼️ Be sure to join the Thought For Food Transition Committee leaders for an Instagram Live session today at 12pm CET and 7pm CET where they will update on next steps for the TFF community. #EarthDay2024 #SustainableSolutions #ChangeMakersGuide
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Did you know today is #WorldHappinessDay? I only recently discovered it. The UN has released the most comprehensive report on the state of happiness across countries and generations: https://lnkd.in/dgcFYP4i ... 👀Check it out and let me know if you agree with the findings. What makes YOU happy? For me, happiness boils down to nurturing relationships, embracing creativity, and creating an impact. Let me share a snapshot of pure joy where these intertwined: this was a recent gathering of some of the brightest minds in agrifood innovation. Coming from places like Lebanon, Morocco, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Europe, and the USA, we connected across cultures and generations in an unforgettable backdrop, enjoying food, music, dancing, and conversations; sharing our wildest ideas and dreams for the future; and committing to support each other through the rollercoaster of change-making and entrepreneurship. We collaborated with our friends at @Monstercat to broadcast our live set on Earth Day, sharing our passion for food and #climate solutions with #electronicmusic lovers worldwide. Happiness embodied... and scaled! :) What's your happiness story? Let me know in the comments below. ⬇️ cc: Thought For Food Full earth day set: https://lnkd.in/eAtnwdDZ
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In a recent conversation with Dr. Teresa Babuscio from Corteva Agriscience, she asked me: "How can #regenerativeagriculture tackle gender and age imbalances? What benefits come from empowering #women in agriculture?" My answer: true regeneration should go beyond biological and crop diversity, and also consider the diversification of the very people involved. This means addressing age and gender imbalances when it comes to focus, financing, and support. Studies consistently show that when women's needs and interests are centered in agricultural systems, yields increase by up to 30%. I then highlighted the work of amazing next-gen women entrepreneurs who bring incredible levels of vision, leadership, resilience, and business acumen to the agrifood sector, including: 🪱Nada Ghanem from DOODA Solutions in Lebanon: she is building vermicompost systems at scale to enhance depleted soils and improve yields. 🧪Marissa Cuevas Flores from microTERRA in Mexico: she bringing healthier, circular food ingredients to market, such as her just-released product Flora that increases the taste and texture of foods using lower levels of sugar and that cleans water from agricultural production (check out: https://lnkd.in/eG7e_YJ2) 🐟 Azellia Alma Shafira from Banoo Indonesia: she is supporting smallholder aquaculture farmers to improve water quality with cost-effective microbubble generators - I have a whole case study about Banoo in my book, by the way! 🧊 Sara Benlafqih from BMTA&C in France / Morocco: she is providing smallholder farmers with accessible, solar-powered, non polluting cold storage systems that reduce food loss and waste and improve profitability. The list goes on and on... For business, investors, and policy leaders, investing in young women isn't just the right thing to do, it's the SMART thing to do. So, feel free to ping me anytime if you are looking for solutions led by female entrepreneurs all over the world, I have the connections and they are ready for your investment and support!! 🤝
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What benefits come from empowering women entrepreneurs in agriculture? As part of my women in agriculture series, I spoke to Christine Gould, Founder and CEO of Thought For Food. We're exploring how regenerative farming can transcend ecological practices to tackle age and gender imbalances in agriculture! Click below to uncover Christine's insights! Stay tuned for more... #regenerativeagriculture #regenag #womeninag #sustainableag #futureoffarming
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Happy #worldpulsesday 🫘 🫛💚
This #worldpulsesday - just to get your pulses up - I'd like to share some exciting updates about pulse-(and legume) focused INNOVATIONS! 👩🏻🔬🧬 🤘 ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ 🫘 COWPEAS (aka black eyed peas) are known to be one of the first domesticated crops! 🤯 They are grown and consumed all over the world due to their affordability and high protein content, but are often stigmatized as 'poor man's meat.' As a result, cowpea isn't usually a big priority in most research and development programs. Luckily, this is changing... In 2019, #Nigeria made history by approving #geneticallymodified cowpea plants that are resistant to pod borers. 🐛 This was developed by the local agricultural research group at Ahmadu Bello University to reduce pesticide use by combating the insect pest that is responsible for up to 80% of crop losses. This year it seems #Ghana will also roll out GM cowpea seeds! And BetterSeeds Ltd is using gene-editing to make cowpea suitable for mechanized harvesting - unleashing the potential of cowpeas for mass scale cultivation in the USA! 🚀 ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ 🫘 FABA BEANS (aka broad beans) are rich in protein, fiber, and essential nutrients, making them a great alternative to meat. Like cowpeas, Faba beans improve soil health by fixing #nitrogen, making them invaluable for #regenerativeagriculture. In 2023, KeyGene, Royal Agrifirm Group, Ebro Ingredients, ME-AT, and Upfield joined forces to start #FabaFood. This is an initiative focused on developing modern, food-grade Faba bean varieties using innovative #speedbreeding technology. Additionally, the partners will focus on faba-focused agronomic research and testing, development of protein extraction methods, and development of consumer products. This is the kind of industry partnership I DREAM of: value-chain partners united to unlock the potential of future crops from end-to-end: breeding to agronomy to processing to consumption and beyond! ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ 🫛 Chickpeas (aka garbanzo beans) are celebrated for their versatility in dishes and for improving heart health and weight management. They are a staple in my house! NuCicer is using #precisionbreeding to develop chickpeas with 75% more protein than conventional varieties. This innovation can catapult #chickpea from a niche to mainstream player, helping diversify the plant protein arena from the usual suspects of #soy and #yellowpea. 🚨 Main takeaway --- pulses can be consumed on their own or their plants can be processed into valuable food ingredients or used as feed. They offer enormous potential for transforming our food system to be more resilient, healthy, and delicious. ❗️That's why agriculture companies, food companies, and entrepreneurs alike should increase their focus on innovating for the #possibilitiesofpulses. Let's do this! 💪 Thought For Food
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Musical silence today on #tiktok... 🤐Why does this matter for #food and #agriculture? The breakdown in negotiations between TikTok and Universal Music Group highlights a critical juncture in how #intellectualproperty is created and shared in the age of #AI. It demonstrates the pronounced need for new thinking around innovative approaches to #licensing: https://lnkd.in/ezS3HywR This is particularly urgent in the agrifood sectors, where collaborative innovation is crucial to combating the climate crisis. My just-released book delves into several examples of practical licensing models that are successfully driving technology access and utilization through open-source and creative commons frameworks: 🌱 TraitAbility open licensing platform for patented #planttraits by Syngenta 🧫 BYOB (Build your own Bioreactor) blueprints on Github by New Harvest 🤖 Open hardware / product development platform by Wikifactory 👩🎤 Accessible music catalogues for creators by Monstercat 👩🏽🌾 Covid & Climate Collaboration Collective to enable sharing between agtech startups by Thought For Food These offer inspiration and learning for how we might navigate the complexities of collaborative innovation for impact - fostering more sharing between startups, industries, disciplines, and geographies in ways that ensure fair compensation and protection of IP. The TikTok-Universal Music conflict may feel far away from feeding the world - yet it serves as another wake-up call on the need to rethink the #IP and licensing approaches in our times of rapid change. *Yesterday's business models will no longer cut it.* #innovation #collaboration #sharing #licensing #techtransfer
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HAPPENING TOMORROW! Register here: https://lnkd.in/dkJfxib4 Join Olivia English and me for a lively chat about my just-released book! If you too are hellbent on making the world a better place, come along to learn, ask questions, and discuss ideas, practical tools, and case studies that can turbocharge your abilities to create positive impact. ✅Start to see multispectral solutions where others see only dead ends. ✅Find the greatest opportunities in the hardest problems. ✅Inspire others with your brave visions that transcend the polarized, stagnant status quo. Earth-shaking change is possible. Change-makers, UNITE! 💪(cc Thought For Food)
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