Innovating to Achieve Regional Food Security (UNDP)| NURTURE Series by GROW
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About this event
What does the road towards regional food security in APAC look like? What drivers of change and technologies will get us there? What mindsets and skills do we need to foster to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? How should we design and think systematically about innovating for the future of agrifood?
In GROW’s NURTURE Series, four thought leaders from the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development; Padang & Co; Echos; and Arup will deliver talks to share their insights on these questions and more. The talks aim to support agrifood innovators in APAC and inspire entrepreneurs to help shape a more sustainable, resilient, and innovative food system. Each talk will be followed by a moderated Q&A.
This event page is for the first talk of the NURTURE Series—Innovating to Achieve Regional Food Security by Armen Harutyunyan (Senior Advisor at UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development).
About Armen:
Prior to joining UNDP, Armen was the head of office and partnerships and international finance officer at the UN Resident Coordinator Office in Armenia, served five years as a Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Armenia, Founded Baskin Robbins Armenia and frequently lectures on Behavioural Economics and Big Data at Executive MBA programs. He has also received awards for his contributions to the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union, investment into the development of agriculture in Armenia, excellent service in the tank forces of the Armenian Army, and as the best defence player in the Inter-Ministerial Soccer Cup.
Sign up for the other 3 talks in the NURTURE Series:
Food—The Sustainability Imperative by Adam Lyle (Co-founder & Executive Chairman at Padang & Co.)
Sept 9, 2:30pm SGT
Since the United Nations adopted the 17 SDGs in 2015, global progress has been poor overall and is uneven across regions. At current rates, it will take the world another 74 years to achieve the targets. Adam Lyle will discuss how innovation in the Agri-Food sector is not only to key achievement of SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), but is also inextricably connected to success in the other 16 SDGs. The secret sauce is a new way of thinking.
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Designing Desirable Futures by Juliana Proserpio (Co-founder & Chief Design Officer at Echos)
Sept 16, 2:30pm SGT
Learn how to design desirable futures and influence ecosystems from a systemic perspective. When thinking about design, Juliana Proserpio shares how we need to use the values of empathy, collaboration and experimentation to engage and invite the ones who are part of the ecosystem to be co-creators and influencers of change.
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Future of Food Manufacturing in Cities by Chintan Raveshia (Cites Planning & Design Lead at Arup)
What does a self-sufficient food manufacturing city look like?Chintan Raveshia, Cites Planning & Design Lead at Arup, envisions what urban food manufacturing looks like in cities and shares the frameworks Arup has built as smart city planners for major cities like Singapore. His talk will present future scenarios of food industrial estates and ask the tough questions required to build urban food manufacturing hubs.
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The NURTURE Series is organized by GROW, Singapore's first agrifood tech impact accelerator backed by AgFunder, one of the most active agrifood tech VCs in the world. Keep up to date with GROW events and join our GROW community here.
