FUTURE FOOD | Future Food Institute is officially Food Innovation partner of FAO

Yesterday, 10th of July 2019, marked the official beginning of the signed partnership between the Future Food Institute and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

“This partnership aims to accelerate exponential positive change. We will achieve this by considering innovation in agribusiness as a key solution for the most urgent challenges we are facing”, says Jose Graziano da Silva (Director General of FAO). He continues, “Food is at the center of this equation. Farmers, food industry leaders, food experts, innovators and cooks represent the engine of change. Technology and digital platforms are the enablers.”

“We live in the era of the Imagination Economy, facing rapid cultural, social and environmental changes and crisis. The food industry is the first victim of this change but also one of the biggest responsible for this crisis.” says Sara Roversi (founder of the Future Food Institute) while talking about the partnership. She continues “With the FAO, the Future Food Institute is promoting a cultural framework that aims to foster a lifelong learning mindset. We will do this by continuing to develop tools that generate and maintain a positive attitude towards learning both for personal and professional development. Our focus is on a competency-based new vision that is able to accelerate action towards both global health and environmental issues. Ultimately, we aim to facilitate the transition toward the sustainable development framework. We believe that both the public and private sectors need to cooperate for the regeneration of lifestyles, mindsets and consciousness which should feed into a process that involves cultural innovation.”

The first FAO and Future Food Institute joint activity consists of capacity building and scaling up education. This begins by training Climate and Food Shapers all over the World with Future Food For Climate Change Summer Schools. The summer schools will bring together change-makers from around the world to co-design tangible strategies and innovations. These will be focused on accelerating positive action towards the climate and SDGs and facilitate the transition toward the sustainable development framework. The appointments are for:

– New York, (July 10th – 17th, 2019) with a  focus on Smart Cities

– Tokyo (August 1st – 7th, 2019) with a focus on Smart Farms,

– Iceland  (September 1st – 7th, 2019) with a focus on Smart Oceans

More info on the Summer Schools and all the joint activities of FAO and Future Food Institute are available on the official page: https://futurefood.network/summerschool/