How can we maximise the amount of products from a given piece of land, to promote a shift from a fossil-based society towards society using cascading technologies? This is at the heart of the Future Agrifood Systems Hub.

What are we interested in?

How improved farming practices can give a higher yield of the land
To shift from fossil society to sustainable farming ecosystems
Development of a living lab & production of innovative and novel foods and ingredients
Crops not only tailored for a primary product, but that are also tailored for use of the resulting by-products
‘Biotech’ processing, advanced and digitalised (precision) fermentation, biorefining and downstream processing

What are the main challenges?

Resilient rural communities, encourages sustainable healthy diets, increases whole value chain dynamics.

Legislators and the demands and restrictions of society
Monopolies - security - vulnerability - policy decisions
Paradigm shift to perennial crops - "higher yield" of the land - products + by-products - cascading technologies - precision fermentation + biorefining
Shift from fossil society

Key characteristics of the Hub

This Hub wants to be a multi actor covering all aspects of the ecosystem of farming (and before, i.e. including crop breeding) and extending into processing, biorefining, biotech, precision fermentation, food, novel foods, and consumers. Furthermore, the Hub aims to:

Use existing demonstration projects e.g. grass to human proteins + feed, and new demonstration projects, as ‘living labs’
Focus on circularity, including recycling nutrients back to the land and soil science.
Get feedback loops to the other disciplines.
Keep the large Hub theme, but within the Hub people can go together in subgroups for target specific aspects. It is all about finding areas of interest in collaborations, that MUST be interdisciplinary.

Who are we?

The Future Agrifood Systems Hub is for everybody who have an interest in improving our future farming technologies. As of now, the Hub would especially benefit from researchers coming from social sciences as well as data scientists. Other hightly welcomed areas of research are: