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Innovations in the Food System: Exploring the Future of Food: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Innovations in the Food System: Exploring the Future of Food: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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food marketing and food value chains; 5) food data and analytics; and 6)
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INNOVATIONS IN FOOD PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING Session 2, moderated by Helen Jensen, Iowa State University, was the first of several focused on game-changing innovations and their implications for food systems, specifically in food production and processing. Becca Jablonski, Colorado State University, spoke about the food systems linkage to rural economic development.
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She next described innovations in modeling and sustainability analytics by presenting a transboundary environmental footprinting, which showed how food, water, and energy systems are interconnected both within the boundaries of a city and in transboundary supply chains. Ramaswami noted that the framework also allowed modeling the impact of policy changes to improve issues such as nutrition, urban agriculture, or greenhouse gas emissions and identifying and prioritizing trade-offs.
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Regarding nutritional quality, Hansen noted that the Beyond Burger and the Impossible Burger have more sodium and similar levels of calories, fat, and saturated fat as a beef burger. According to Hansen, the Amy's burger is slightly "healthier." With respect to climate impacts, Hansen continued, the Beyond Burger and Impossible Burger involve about 90 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than conventional, industrially produced meat.
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Looking toward the future, Miller envisions system redesign to improve regional food access while reducing waste and energy consumption. This may be possible by a return to regional supply chains, increased interest in public food terminals that meet public and private goals, open-source technology with compatible platforms, and technological innovations to improve information flow such as machine learning, distributed ledgers, and multitenant applications.
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He also noted that in the past 10 to 20 years, public agriculture research funding has leveled off or decreased, while private-sector funding has increased. Jill McCluskey, Washington State University, spoke about innovations in supporting contracting in supply chains and how universities and plant breeders can fit into the supply chain.
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He noted that as it is simply unsustainable from social and environmental perspectives for the world to waste 30 to 50 percent of the global food supply annually, there is increasing momentum behind Target 12.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals, which calls for cutting global waste in half by 2030 and reducing food loss along supply chains. Finn noted that to achieve the reduction outlined in Target 12.3, it is important to shift attention to preventing the occurrence of food waste (i.e., source reduction)
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A new product, Leanpath Spark, allows organizations to engage consumers in the food waste reduction process as well, displaying impactful waste data and messaging to drive behavior change at the consumer level. Norbert Wilson, Tufts University, spoke about mitigating food loss, primarily produce, and how food labels influence food waste.
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He described several historical church leaders who led initiatives to use the church's land and assets to cultivate and provide food for the congregation, furthering food sovereignty in the community. Brown also articulated how his group, the Black Church Food Security Network, organizes the resources of the African American church community for an asset-based approach to food insecurity.
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2018. Assessing current local capacity for agrifood production to meet household demand: Analyzing select food commodities across 377 U.S.
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Department of Agriculture; Jean Halloran, Consumer Reports; Helen Jensen, Iowa State University; Christina Khoo, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.; Roni Neff, Johns Hopkins University; and Jennifer Otten, University of Washington REVIEWERS: To ensure that it meets institutional standards for quality and objectivity, this Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief was reviewed by Ihouma Eneli, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Robert Post, Chobani, LLC. Lauren Shern, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine served as the review coordinator.
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