Rebuilding fisheries is a must for the future
As everyone knows, fish stocks have been depleted to levels that are not acceptable. This is the result of short-term thinking combined with highly efficient but stupid fishing methods. Not only fish...
View ArticleInnovation and tradition shape the future
In order to understand what changes are ahead of us, we need to realize that opposite forces are engaged in shaping the world of the future. As we all know, accepting change is always a slow and...
View ArticleHealth and environment as growing drivers of food production
Health concerns will gain more importance in the future in the decision process of consumers when they buy their food. More and more, we can hear and read about concerns and even rejection of the...
View ArticleSustainability: A land of confusion?
The more I read and hear about sustainability, the more confused I get about what the people making statements about it really mean, if they mean anything at all. Very clearly, everyone now goes...
View ArticleHow sustainable is “sustainable”?
The more as read about new certified sustainable foods sources, the more I start to wonder about how really sustainable they are. As I have mentioned before, I believe that sustainability is the only...
View ArticleAquaculture: the solution to feed 9 billion people?
Last week, BioScience published an article based on the research of a group of researchers from the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), the Spanish High Council for Scientific...
View ArticleThe fun of writing this book
Over the last few months, I have been working quite a bit on writing this book about the future of agriculture. I must say that compiling in one book a wide range of topics that, without any doubt,...
View ArticleFuture Harvests – The book is coming soon!
The editing of my book “Future Harvests – The next agricultural revolution” is about completed. All that is left to do is developing the cover and start the publishing. I have already received...
View ArticleFuture Harvests – A preview of the book
My book, Future Harvests, is expected to be published before the end of August. Here is a preview to give you a flavor of the content. For a full view, please click on the thumbnails....
View ArticleThe sockeye salmon returns with some lessons
This could have been the third example, after canola and vines, of what I called earlier “Science being taken hostage”, but this story actually goes beyond just the tactical use of selected science....
View ArticleWhat a game changer my book is!
Future Harvests has been published less than two weeks ago, and it is going to change my company rather profoundly. What started as a blog on the side of The Happy Future Group Consulting Ltd. is now...
View ArticleSwimming in circles – Part II: BC salmon farmers are proud!
In Swimming in circles, I was mentioning that salmon farmers should communicate more about their people, their work and the pride of doing what they do. My article had caught their attention, as I have...
View ArticleThe rise of the non-profits and how they shape food production
In the years before the current economic crisis, the non-profit sector was already creating more jobs than the for-profit sector. Last year, the total of all operating budgets of non-profit...
View ArticleSeaAgra Seafood and The Food Futurist team up for consulting of seafood projects
Vancouver, 9 March 2011 SeaAgra and The Food Futurist will cooperate to offer consulting services to their customers involved in the seafood industry. By combining their pool of expertise in the field...
View ArticleWhat a waste!
Nobody can have missed it. The hot topic of the past month was the so-called global food crisis. If you believe the media, the conventional ones as well as the social media, we are facing food...
View ArticleRobots, sensors, drones and big data are coming to the sea, too – Fishermen...
There is not a day that goes by without articles about new technologies in agriculture. I enjoy seeing the excitement because I believe it is will revolutionize how farmers produce food. When I started...
View ArticleBeyond just technology… the human factor
Early July the SeaFest 2015 event was held in Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork, Ireland. The Our Ocean Wealth conference was aimed at showing the potential of the sea as part of a successful economic development...
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