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Agriculture and Food

Agriculture and Food Systems

Food systems carry more people's livelihoods than any other industry and receive the least leadership attention. The gap between what a farm produces and what a farmer earns is where most of the problem sits.

What we want to help solve

  • Value captured far downstream of the people who grow the food
  • Post-harvest loss treated as inevitable rather than as an engineering problem
  • Land tenure insecurity that makes long-term investment irrational
  • Input and credit markets that reach the largest farms first

The questions it raises

  • Where in this chain does the value actually stop?
  • What would a smallholder need in order to invest for ten years?
  • What are we taking out of this soil, and what are we putting back?
  • Who eats worse if this business succeeds?

Shifts reshaping this domain

  • Precision agriculture
  • Cold chain and logistics
  • Regenerative practice
  • Climate-resilient crops

Competencies formation develops

  • Agricultural value chains
  • Land and resource stewardship
  • Rural finance
  • Food security policy

The Agriculture and Food council

Coming soon

Councils open where we have the faculty, participants and research capacity to run them properly. When this one opens it will carry mentors from the domain, published research, roundtables and reported outcomes. None of that exists yet.

Industry mentors
Recruiting now
Research
Not yet published
Roundtables
Not yet scheduled
Reported outcomes
Not yet published