Modular and Portable Food Production: Produce Local – Offer Global
Arla Foods has recently announced 2 new joint ventures in Nigeria and Senegal with the objective of adding value through selling their dairy powders in Africa. They have announced a strategy which includes the installation of a mobile packaging facility in the corresponding local market. Arla Foods will sell what they call “nutritional milk powder […]
Food Powder Blends Anywhere: An Open Door to New Markets
Fueled mainly by population growth and increasing urbanization, many opportunities are emerging in processed food especially, in developing markets, where new local players are arising. On the other hand, traditional food and beverage producers are in the need of entering new regions and segments to maintain or increase their business, that comes with increased cost […]
How Will We Produce Food to Reduce Hunger?
In a world where the population is expected to reach nine billion by 2050, where two billion people suffer malnutrition, 30% of produced food goes to waste during production and delivery process, and food insecurity and climate change represent huge sustainability treats,optimizing inefficient food supply chains and transport chains represents a huge opportunity. Here’s a […]
Food value chain: Redefining Traditional B2B Business in a Service Economy
I recently read an interesting article focusing on the transition to an industrial economy to a service economy, signed by Dave Gray. As suggested in the article, the car is, perhaps, one the clearest examples of how the advancement of digital technology, demographic and economic changes has turned out the way in which companies, and […]
Food Production: Balancing People, Planet, and Growth
The food system has a major role in achieving the sustainable development goals. Both in relation to the environmental impact it causes and the need for ensuring a healthy and sustainable way of producing enough food and quality food to feed an increasing population while reducing malnutrition and hunger. To date, food has been one […]
Big data and the need for more affordable and high quality food
Due to a worldwide fragmented food supply chain, food manufacturers have to deal with countless risks that impact the final price of food products. Therefore, attaining more relevant and precise information to optimize food production is a key technological challenge for increasing access to food in a situation of growing population with a large number […]
Making Food Available to Anybody
Very proud of my team at Blendhub! After Murcia Food Bank’s visit to our company, we all initiated a very successful food collection, bringing together over 300 kilograms of food products- four big boxes! Inequality and poverty has increased significantly in Spain after the economic crisis- a situation that requires the constant effort and commitment of […]
The Water Challenge. Ensuring a Sustainable Food Production
Water scarcity is one of the great threats to the sustainability of the food systems. United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that the food production consumes 70% of the world’s fresh water resources, mainly in growing crops and raising animals. But water is also a major ingredient in processed food. Recently launched report Feeding […]
Agri-food Value Chain: Better Alignment, Less Risk
In the book The Risk-Driven. Four Questions That Will Define Your Company Business Model, Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine argue that when designing business models, key choices can either increase or reduce one of the characteristic types of risks: The incentive-alignment risk. It refers to the clash between the incentives imposed to a company’s business […]
From a ‘Me’ to a ‘We’ Economy
Some weeks ago, I enjoyed a fantastic “WE Day” in London with my family and thousands of true everyday heroes. The goal of these events are “to empower a generation to shift the world from ‘me’ to ‘we’, from a focus on the individual to the power of community”, through global platforms. This change of […]