Food sustainability: the role of innovation

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ITNE – Budapest 15.11.2017

This project has received funding from theEuropean Union’s Horizon 2020 researchand innovation programme under grantagreement No 731349-INCluSilver

Food sustainability: the role of innovation

• Who am I and why my story is connected with food sustainability and innovation?

• What’s happening to the Earth? And who is responsable?

• Why is so important to be aware on food sustainability to fix ourproblems?

• Food and sustainability: what is the role of innovation?


Who am I and why my story is connected with food sustainability and innovation?


Who am I and why my story is connected with food sustainability and innovation?

From Universal Exposition on «Feeding the Planet. Energy for life» to President Barack Obama, to Nobel Prize and Vice President Al Gore.



“Yes we can” make a difference when we stand together

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“Yes we can” make a difference when we stand together



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Obama’s quote

If we face the challenges of the future, there is nothing we can’t do. We

must reduce hunger and malnutrition, we must reverse the direction in

which climate change is taking us, we must work for a more sustainable

World. Climate change will continue to have an impact on our Planet,

producing energy will be increasingly difficult and even producing food

will become more and more difficult. All this will have repercussions.


Obama’s quote

Climate change is the challenge that will define the contours of our century

more dramatically than any other. Indeed, no nation will be immune to the

effects of global warming. Climate and food: two issues related. From one

hand, climate has a negative impact on food chain, producing instability and

poverty. On the other hand, the way food is produced today has a

devastating impact on climate.

So, the most expensive thing we can do is to do nothing!



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Climate reality project, pittsburgh, october 2017


Al gore’s quote


Cultural innovation first

Lessons learned during these meetings:

- You can invent alone, but you need people to innovate.

- “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants“ (nanos

gigantum humeris insidentes).

- Innovation is a cultural process first.


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What’s happening to the earth?

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oceans

At a global level, more than 90% of global warming trapped in the

atmosphere goes in the oceans. This energy changes the water life cycle

creating more and more violent and destructive storms, tiphons, hurricanes

and at the same time, in other regions, it creates drought.

In 2016 in USA, these disasters lead to a $175 billions loss.



79 climate wars. (Adelphi per G7). 200 billions migrants. 1,7 billions people affected by climate in 10 years e 700,000 people died. 100 billion dollars per year loss.


Why is so important to be aware on food sustainability?

25% of GHG is caused by intensive agriculture (methane produced by rice

paddies or nitrous oxide resulting from the use of fertilizers). Livestock

produces 40% of global warming more than all the transport sector at a

global level.

From the other side, food system is the largest sector affected by climate

change. In the last 30 years climate change has reduced global food

production by 1 to 5%.


Cause

1,3 billions tons of food are wasted every year. The economic value is 750

billion dollars. This waste generates 3,3 billions tons of GHG in terms of

energy used to produce it and disposal it.

Agriculture is responsable for 5,1/6,1 Gt CO2 per year, which means 10-12%

of the global GHG.

47% of methane emissions are due to agriculture (73% from livestock; and

26% from fertilizers). By 2030, without any adjustment, nitrogen oxide levels

will increase by 35 to 60% and methane by 60%.


EFFECTS

Drought

Disease

Heat

Pesticide

Fires

Nutrition Toxins

Water availability

Food

By 2050 climatecrises will cause losses from 9 to 21% of agriculturalproduction


Climate change is at the end of your fork: The role of innovation

Controlled Environment AgriculturePrecision AgricultureSustainability & Waste ReductionLearning & Sharing Novel & SuperfoodsFood Security for Developing CountriesFood Safety, Health & NutritionBig Data, AI & TraceabilityE-commerce, Food delivery & Supermarket of the FutureSmart kitchen, 3D Printing & Robotics


Climate change is at the end of your fork: the role of innovation

Competitiveness Innovation is a strategic leverage for an

efficient use of resources in agriculture and for competitive advantage of

firms.

Sustainability Innovation and new technologies support new

products develpment, productive processes and new demand models .

Rural communities Innovation helps to engage and empower

rural communities, improving local conditions and relations among rural

and urban areas.


Food sustainability index

Food Sustainability Index (FSI) is a 25 Countries index classified on the basis

of food systems sustainability in 3 areas: food losses and wastes, sustainable

agriculture and nutritional challenges.

100 is the maximum level of sustainability (i.e. food system capability to not

stress natural resources).


Food sustainability index

Country FSI

France 67,53

Japan 66,66

Canada 64,86

Germany 64, 67

UK 63, 87

Italy 63, 67

South Corea 62, 82


Food sustainability index and innovationAreas Figures Innovations

Food losses and waste Methane from food in landfill is 21 times more damaging than CO2. Food loss in DCs and Food Waste in Developed C. While 795 millions peoplesuffer for hungry, 1,3 tons of food iswasted. Avoiding 1/3 of food waste wecould feed all people suffering. The worst Countries: EAU; Indonesia; Arabia.

Smart label; smart retail; disintermediation; donations; education; precision agriculture.

Sustainability agriculture Water stress for agriculture. The worstCountries are: Egypt (114,9%); Arabia (867,9%); EAU (2.208%) on respect of withdrawling of other renewableresources.

Riduction of pesticeds and fertilizers; water efficency: GPS tractors; satellites; big data; sensors; drons; verticalfarming; AI.

Nutritional Challenges 45% of under 5 children deaths are linked to nutrition. The worst Countriesare: Sudafrica; Nigeria; India.

Mulnutrition: food fortification; education. Obesity: alternative low fatand sugar food; smart labels.


Thank You!

Claudia Laricchia

Twitter: ClaudiaLarix

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