Management: Technology and Innovation

Posted Date: February 2, 2023

The urgent need for a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has increased the pressure across the globe on businesses in every sector and governments at every level to make changes to how they operate toward reducing or eliminating environmental impacts. Agriculture is among those sectors most affected by this momentum of change, not only because of its significant impacts on people, economies, and on the natural environment, but because it is an immediately available “technology” that can significantly influence global carbon levels for the better.

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Management: Public Trust and Consumer Advocacy

Posted Date: November 21, 2022

The cultured protein movement has gained significant momentum due to accelerating consumer demand for the food industry to become not only carbon neutral, but carbon negative, more humane, more affordable, more nutritious, more abundant, more secure, and more localized. To meet the increasingly numerous and complex demands of a growing population, food production is on the cusp of a new revolution with cultured protein stepping forward to assert itself as part of the solution to what many perceive as threats to food safety, security, animal welfare and the environment. Risks of cultured protein are still unfolding as development of this technology continues to evolve. However, in terms of risks to livestock farmers, cultured proteins represent a direct challenge to animal agriculture, no matter how technologically developed farming is or may become.

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