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2023 η χρονιά μεταβάσεων, αποφάσεις και σκέψεις για το σπουδαίο 2024
2023 η χρονιά μεταβάσεων, αποφάσεις και σκέψεις για το σπουδαίο 2024

2023 η χρονιά μεταβάσεων, αποφάσεις και σκέψεις για το σπουδαίο 2024 Αγαπητοί φίλοι και συνεργάτες, Καθώς πλησιάζουμε στο τέλος του έτους, είναι σημαντικό να ρίξουμε μια ματιά πίσω, να αναλύσουμε τις προκλήσεις και τις επιτυχίες που μας συνόδευσαν στον τομέα της Αγροδιατροφής. Οι τεχνολογικές εξελίξεις, οι αλλαγές στο κλίμα, η αειφορία και η δεοντολογία αποτελούν στοιχεία που διαμορφώνουν το περιβάλλον…

The F.O.O.D Project MANIFESTO
The F.O.O.D Project MANIFESTO

The F.O.O.D Project MANIFESTO Το “F.O.O.D PROJECT (The Future Of Obvious Disruption)“ Το “The F.O.O.D PROJECT (Future Of Obvious Disruption)” είναι ένα κάλεσμα αφύπνισης προς κάθε άνθρωπο προσωπικά, προς κάθε σκεπτόμενο άνθρωπο που έχει κατανοήσει την εξάρτηση του Ανθρώπινου είδους από τη Γεωργία ως πάροχο Τροφής αλλά και Πολιτισμού. Και αυτό είναι τόσο επίκαιρο σήμερα, παρόλο που νεότερες ιδέες όπως…

Spanish traders, Greek fruit and the battle for the shelves
Spanish traders, Greek fruit and the battle for the shelves

Spanish traders, Greek fruit and the battle for the shelves Based on the article of POWER GAMES news (https://www.powergame.gr/ikonomia/459936/oi-ispanoi-eboroi-ta-ellinika-frouta-kai-i-machi-gia-ta-rafia/) I read a very useful article  recently which refers to the Spanish fruit and vegetable traders who have been targeting the Greek market in an effort to replace a portion of their lost production due to unprecedented drought for the second…

Food for thought the book “F.O.O.D” of Panos Chamakiotis gave shine to AGROTICA EXHIBITION 2022
Food for thought the book “F.O.O.D” of Panos Chamakiotis gave shine to AGROTICA EXHIBITION 2022

The event for the official presentation of Panos (Panayiotis) Chamakiotis‘ book titled “F.O.O.D. – The Future Of Obvious Disruption” published by Tropos Books, a search for the big open questions of agri-food to which leaders and modern societies are called to give answers, turned into a dream night! The event, on Saturday 22 October at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival…

Η ρίζα και το Drone
Η ρίζα και το Drone

Στην Ευρώπη συμβαίνει να είμαστε θύματα της ευημερίας μας, ο κύριος φόβος μας είναι η επιβίωση και προσπαθούμε να συμβιβαστούμε με πολλούς τρόπους για να την επιτύχουμε…

Do you walk the talk?
Do you walk the talk?

Στην Ευρώπη συμβαίνει να είμαστε θύματα της ευημερίας μας, ο κύριος φόβος μας είναι η επιβίωση και προσπαθούμε να συμβιβαστούμε με πολλούς τρόπους για να την επιτύχουμε…

Εταιρείες ή Χώρες; Ενσυναίσθηση και αλληλεγγύη στην Αλυσίδα του Τροφίμου σε περίοδο Κρίσης
Εταιρείες ή Χώρες; Ενσυναίσθηση και αλληλεγγύη στην Αλυσίδα του Τροφίμου σε περίοδο Κρίσης

Στην Ευρώπη συμβαίνει να είμαστε θύματα της ευημερίας μας, ο κύριος φόβος μας είναι η επιβίωση και προσπαθούμε να συμβιβαστούμε με πολλούς τρόπους για να την επιτύχουμε…

After the pandemic, until the next one…
After the pandemic, until the next one…

All sectors are in the midst of an unprecedented transformation now.
Why it is so difficult for the governments to spot new and radical changes quickly, to neglect their blindness to the opportunities have been raised by this crisis and develop their citizens potential?

Agriculture, Culture and Climate Change
Agriculture, Culture and Climate Change

Agriculture, Culture and Climate Change Can sustainable agriculture scale? With more young people entering the field and more farmland rental options for those unable to buy, the opportunity to collaborate for collective change stronger than ever and many first-time farmers are embracing the regenerative promise of restoring a broken agricultural system and helping consumers understand the meaning and implications of…

NO FEAR or DELAY to REGENERATE Agro-sector
NO FEAR or DELAY to REGENERATE Agro-sector

NO FEAR or DELAY to REGENERATE Agro-sector Some terms defy definition and distinguishing agriculture between conventional (which by default is bad) and ecological (which by default is good) makes it hard to find common ground between different ways of doing things. We should realize that nature is more collaborative than competitive and, in my understanding, there’s only one sustainable agriculture that can…

Star Trek or Mad Max future for Agriculture?
Star Trek or Mad Max future for Agriculture?

Star Trek or Mad Max future for Agriculture? Will a child born today be able to live in his/her country 50 years later, or will the climate crisis have hit countries to such an extent that it will have caused massive changes in society and global upheavals that we see in science fiction films? Her /His future will be a…

2021- in- review & beginning -of- 2022
2021- in- review & beginning -of- 2022

2021- in- review & beginning -of- 2022 We come and go to life alone… This has been a year with its high highs and low lows, it’s been a strange disorienting but also creative experience for me, a real discovery! It is well known that building a personal attitude not only to surviving but thriving over very challenging times has…

Leadership through the years of modern agriculture
Leadership through the years of modern agriculture

Leadership through the years of modern agriculture Going after a pandemic year with travel restricted, mass gatherings banned, social distancing required, and supply chains interrupted, there is no longer business as usual in agricultural sector. The opposite, we’ve accelerated about five years ahead in our timeline and past experience must be no longer overrated if we want to successfully confront…

Does Covid-19 give a lesson to Agriculture of tomorrow’s thinking?
Does Covid-19 give a lesson to Agriculture of tomorrow’s thinking?

Does Covid-19 give a lesson to Agriculture of tomorrow’s thinking? Food, Energy and Water: This is what the United Nations refers to as the “nexus” of Sustainable Development. Efforts to meet the world’s growing nutritional needs can occur -and this is the standard in many cases — in harmony with nature, the rural world and public health. Uncontrolled growth must…

#4 HOW AGRICULTURE WILL HANDLE ENDEMIC CHALLENGES?
#4 HOW AGRICULTURE WILL HANDLE ENDEMIC CHALLENGES?

#4 HOW AGRICULTURE WILL HANDLE ENDEMIC CHALLENGES? Our attitude must stand tall to help secure the long-term sustainability of any sector we operate because due to Covid-19 collateral implications there are potential downsides to the development of global food chains, this is not going to be a wriggles free passage. On the other hand the countless emergencies generated by the…

#3 DO FINANCIAL INVESTORS TAKE CONTROL OF THE GLOBAL AGRI-FOOD INDUSTRY?
#3 DO FINANCIAL INVESTORS TAKE CONTROL OF THE GLOBAL AGRI-FOOD INDUSTRY?

It is no secret that investment funds have the necessary resources and foresee the surplus values. These groups do not operate autonomously,

#2 FARMERS at TIPPING POINT phase
#2 FARMERS at TIPPING POINT phase

In the past decade, two main developments have brought Agro-Food management issues to the fore.

#1 AGRIFOOD & HOW TO APPLY 4×10 rule
#1 AGRIFOOD & HOW TO APPLY 4×10 rule

Changing structures, application behaviors, and the greater reliance of farmers on difficulties indeed pose a number of challenges