Podcasts by Future Food
What will you be eating in 2050? How will it get to your table? How we grow, purchase, and eat our food is changing. New technologies and food products are playing a key role in shaping that change. In this podcast, we speak to the people driving that future, from entrepreneurs and venture capital investors, to farmers and food businesses. Welcome to Future Food!
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What Does Obama Think About Food Technology? from 2022-02-21T12:54:58.045669
In this episode, Louisa speaks to Sam Kass, former chef and nutritional policy advisor for the Obamas, about food tech innovation. Kass is now venture partner at Acre Venture Partners, the agrifood...
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How are Food Corporates Interacting with Startup Innovation and Are We Headed for Margarine 2.0? from 2022-02-21T12:54:57.995875
In this podcast, Louisa talks to Nick Fereday, a consumer foods analyst at Rabobank, about how the large food and agriculture companies are reacting to new innovation and working with startups. The...
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How Whole Foods' Walter Robb Thinks about Food Tech and the Future of Grocery from 2022-02-21T12:54:57.990353
Hear former co-CEO of Whole Foods Walter Robb, a proponent of whole and natural foods, talk about the advent of new technologies from robotic retail to his contrarian views of plant-based meat. He ...
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Consumer Signals Influence the Biggest Agtech Startup: Indigo Ag from 2022-02-21T12:54:57.988517
In this episode of Future Food, I speak to Jennifer Betka, the chief marketing officer of Indigo Agriculture.
Jennifer is an expert marketer with a career spanning many different industrie...
Who's responsible for obesity? And why Futurist Jack Bobo is pro-traditions from 2022-02-21T12:54:57.985900
In this episode I speak to Jack Bobo, founder of Futurity, a consultancy firm for startups and established food brands to consider the future of food and what it means to them.
"I'm very ...
Why foodtech and agtech VC? I ask AgFunder's investment team from 2022-02-21T12:54:57.983607
Why work in the foodtech and agtech investment space? Which category of this emerging venture capital industry are most exciting? These are some of the questions I asked two of my teammates Yanniv ...
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Oatly co-founder on scaling alt milk and the need for local food production from 2022-02-21T12:54:57.979457
Oatly co-founder on scaling alt milk and the need for local food production
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The future of agrifood investing in the wake of Covid-19 from 2022-02-21T12:54:57.978422
Covid-19 is the first big crisis for agrifood investing, an investment area that largely emerged in the wake of the global financial crisis. How will investors respond and what does it mean for the...
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From software to regenerative agriculture, SoilWorks believes the key to better health is in the ground from 2022-02-21T12:54:57.975939
In this episode of Future Food, which I co-hosted with my wonderful colleague Lauren Stine, our reporter and resident rancher, we talk to Lew Moorman and Nick Honegger of Soilworks, a newly-created...
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Reaching net-zero emissions by 2040 with PepsiCo from 2022-02-21T12:54:57.970773
Roberta Barbieri is VP of Global Water and Environmental Solutions at PepsiCo. We dig into the corporate's January announcement that it will have net-zero emissions by 2040 and reduce its absolute ...
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Soylent's CEO on shift towards middle America and the future of plant-based from 2021-10-22T09:00
In this episode, I speak to Demir Vangelov, who’s the CEO of Soylent, the company many of you might know for making meal replacements drinks for busy entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. But the ...
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How 'cool' fertilizers can sequester carbon and more, with Amy Yoder from 2021-10-15T15:34:28
Before your eyes start to roll, fertilizers are cool! We wouldn't be able to eat what we do without them.
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Diving deep with Sandhya Sriram on the future of cell-cultured seafood from 2021-06-25T15:05:58
AFN chief editor Louisa Burwood-Taylor talks to Sandhya Sriram, co-founder and CEO of Singaporean cell-cultured seafood startup Shiok Meats.
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Future Food News Review #5: Food system cyber-attacks, Avoiding alt protein’s unintended consequences, Cashierless checkout's growth from 2021-06-24T09:39:40
Welcome to the fifth edition of the very popular Future Food News Review, with foodtech, agtech and food systems' leading journalists. This week's headlines covered the spate of cyber hacking exper...
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Future Food News Review #4: Regenerative agriculture's reckoning, Questions for cell-cultured meat, Right-wing coffee, more from 2021-05-19T13:00:21
Welcome to the fourth edition of the highly popular Future Food News Review, with foodtech, agtech and food systems' leading journalists. This week's headlines covered Restaurant worker exploitatio...
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Up, up and away! Irving Fain on building Bowery's biggest vertical farm yet from 2021-05-18T10:41:48
There's certainly been a fair amount of hype about vertical farming over the years. And while there's still a long way to go before this ag sector becomes a true alternative to outdoor farming, it ...
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From chemicals to soil microbes: Bayer's former CEO joins AgBiome from 2021-05-14T11:56:29
The pressure is on to find new ways for farmers to protect their crops from pests, disease and weeds. Not only is the environmental impact of conventional farming practices increasingly in the spot...
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How do you make the world's most ambitious cheese? from 2021-05-11T11:26:39
This week, Swedish startup Stockeld Dreamery launched its first plant-based cheese product, the Stockeld Chunk. I spoke to cofounder and CEO Sorosh Tavakoli about the launch and did a taste test du...
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Future Food News Review #3: Amazon's new private label food brand, Unabated meat consumption, SPACs for foodtech from 2021-04-19T13:40:54
Welcome to the third edition of the Future Food News Review, with foodtech, agtech and food systems' leading journalists. This week's headlines were: Amazon's new private label food brand Aplenty, ...
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Future Food News Review #2: Impossible's $10bn IPO, Vegan Cheese, CRISPR Tomatoes from 2021-04-12T13:37:23
Welcome to the second edition of the Future Food News Review! This week's top headlines included: plant-based meat maker Impossible Foods' rumored $10bn IPO, a Japanese company's launch of a gene-e...
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The Future Food News Review with Food Tech's Leading Journalists from 2021-03-29T19:20:55
The weekly Future Food News Review features leading journalists in foodtech and agtech sharing and discussing their top headlines of the week, hosted on Clubhouse.
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JUST how this startup became the first to serve cell-cultured meat in a restaurant from 2021-03-23T17:05:10
Continuing on from the theme of what I missed while I was off on maternity leave at the end of 2020, the industry had a major announcement and that was when Eat Just, the company first known for it...
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Is this the fastest-growing vertical farming business in the world? from 2021-03-11T15:00
Indoor agriculture is a competitive space. While there is so much whitespace for vertical farms and hi-tech greenhouses to grow and sell produce into local food systems across the globe, those that...
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Foodtech & sustainability in Asia amid food security challenges from 2020-07-17T21:01:30
Covid-19 started in Asia, and the region was the first to feel the social and economic impacts of the disease as it spread worldwide. It’s also where businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, and gover...
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Digging into the future and sustainability of protein in our diets from 2020-06-24T08:16
The importance of protein in our diets is hardly breaking news.
When you combine the developing world’s desire for more meat, with the over-consumption of meat and protein in the developed...
How the digitalization of agriculture will increase food's sustainability from 2020-06-18T08:14
How does an environmentalist become an aerial imagery data analytics and A.I. entrepreneur? Find out in this episode with Al Eisaian, a serial entrepreneur from the mobile apps and software space.<...
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How to clean your house with food waste from 2020-05-19T18:54:17
Amanda Weeks is converting food waste into a natural house cleaner. With her startup Ambrosia, that recently re-branded from Industrial/Organic, Amanda has been recycling food waste for many years ...
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Digging into dairy sustainability with Danone & Connecterra from 2020-04-29T18:23:22
I sat down with yogurt giant Danone and dairy tech startup Connecterra on Earth Day to discuss how they're sustainability initiatives are progressing and how Covid-19 is impacting their business. C...
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Milk from peas? Method co-founder Adam Lowry on making protein and learning from mistakes from 2020-02-13T16:49:17
Climate scientist, inventor and founder of two sustainable businesses, Adam Lowry is currently CEO of Ripple Foods, a dairy alternative products company.
His first company Method is a sus...
Pork Tech, ASF, Transparency: how are your sausages grown? from 2020-01-28T20:43:33
In a world of African Swine Fever, increasing scrutiny of the meat industry and consumer demand for transparency, the pork industry needs to modernize. But according to Chris Bomgaars, founder of E...
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Alt proteins: Catching up with GFI's Bruce Friedrich from 2019-12-12T03:09:47
In this episode, I speak to Bruce Friedrich, the co-founder of the Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit that promotes plant-based alternatives to meat, dairy, and eggs, as well as those using cel...
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Klaus Kunz tells us how Bayer is cleaning up its act from 2019-09-23T20:30:49
In this episode of Future Food, I speak to Klaus Kunz, head of Sustainability and Business Stewardship at German agro-pharma giant Bayer. We talk on many topics including smallholder farmers, biodi...
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From the moment we're born, we're going to know exactly what foods we should eat, for what purpose from 2019-07-29T13:08:21
Did you know one of our most common drugs was derived from plants, and that just 15 of the 50,000 edible plants on the earth provide 90% of our calories?!
In this episode, I speak to Sofia...
A Moonshot Idea for Avocados? Nadia El Hadery from UK's YFood Shares Her FoodTech Journey from 2019-05-14T10:15:44
The UK is the most active ecosystem for foodtech and agtech startups in Europe and Nadia El Hadery has played a role in it from London since 2015. Nadia is founder and CEO of YFood, an event and me...
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What is the Future of Food? CEO of Agtech's 1st Unicorn David Friedberg Offers His Vision from 2019-02-28T15:45:46
For entrepreneurs and investors in the agtech startup space, David Friedberg is a major celebrity. When he sold his startup The Climate Corporation for $1 billion in 2013 - achieving that elusive "...
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Consumer Preferences and the Role of Women in Food & Ag Innovation from 2018-07-30T11:30
Women still make the majority of food decisions in the home -- around 65% according to some estimates but are underrepresented in leading roles at food companies globally. In this week’s podcast, L...
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How an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Startup Got Acquired by John Deere from 2018-07-16T11:30
Blue River Technology is a Silicon Valley startup bringing robotics to the farm. In August 2017, Blue River was acquired by John Deere, the world’s largest tractor company, for $305 million. This w...
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Plenty Vertical Farming: From Stealth to Raising $200m from 2018-06-18T15:22:13
After a few years in stealth mode, vertical farming group Plenty hit the public domain with a bang, raising a record-breaking $200m from Japanese banking group SoftBank over the summer. Louisa t...
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Plenty Vertical Farming: From Stealth to Raising $200m from 2018-06-18T15:22:13
After a few years in stealth mode, vertical farming group Plenty hit the public domain with a bang, raising a record-breaking $200m from Japanese banking group SoftBank over the summer. Louisa t...
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Plenty Vertical Farming: From Stealth to Raising $200m from 2018-06-18T15:22:13
After a few years in stealth mode, vertical farming group Plenty hit the public domain with a bang, raising a record-breaking $200m from Japanese banking group SoftBank over the summer. Louisa talk...
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