FoodNexus is organizing the first FoodNexus Visioning Summit to provide clear recommendations on how to act, departing from the question: “What are the most urgent problems facing the food industry in the next 10 years, and how can we best meet these challenges?”. The Summit takes place in Paris on May 29 and 30, 2018.
Context
The food industry is facing huge challenges to feed billions of people while, climate change and land erosion are already making it more difficult to produce food. Also, where wide scale hunger affecting ca 800 million people prevents economic development, health related problems due to imbalanced diets (overeating, lack of micronutrients) lead to staggering health care costs.
Meeting such challenges efficiently requires to develop a clear vision – and to make sure decision makers act upon it together. This is why FoodNexus is organizing the first FoodNexus Visioning Summit to provide clear recommendations on how to act, departing from the question:
“What are the most urgent problems facing the food industry in the next 10 years, and how can we best meet these challenges?”
Themes of the Visioning Summit 2018
The event will be arranged to target five aspects of our common challenges to solve, and for which new initiatives across the European food system must be taken.
- Food security and sustainability
- Food quality and safety
- Food for health and wellbeing
- The Digital agenda – Integration of novel technologies with social innovations
- New business and innovation ecosystems
FoodNexus will bring together experts from academia with leading industry partners and government (EU, National) officials, and the recommendations will be widely distributed after the event.
More information and registration
Here you will find the Programme. It will be updated regularly.
About the FoodNexus Consortium
FoodNexus is a European business-led Consortium of multinational companies and SMEs, together with the world’s best knowledge institutes in the area of food, in the strongest food regions of Europe. We are committed to strengthening the competitive and innovative power in the European food system, while contributing to solving today’s and tomorrow’s major societal challenges related to food security, sustainability, safety, and health.
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