Arindam Basu
1 min readNov 23, 2018

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Disruption of food

  • Blockchain
  • Tech
  • Supply chain
  • Connect
  • Market regulating
  • Digital supply chain
  • Market forces regulate

Blockchain crucial

Cellular agriculture

Natural Vs synthetic

Cellular agriculture

Definition of meat

“Milk” and definition of meat

Future workforce

  • Society technology nexus —
  • Transition
  • Evidence driven
  • Work with stakeholder with whose views they are not comfortable with
  • Graduates work across disciplines
  • Step outside of disciplines
  • Very different workforce in future
  • Creativity
  • Leadership

Workforce looks like

Wealth creation?

  • Craig Armitage ((Pwc)
  • Emma Wheeler (KPMG)

Sea based protein production

  • Marine production
  • Education
  • Food waste — minimising waste?
  • Circular economy
  • Physical/moral limits
  • Food transitions
  • Sociological changes
  • Ownership of land
  • Corn-soya
  • Economic colonisation of food supply
  • Food mile
  • Associated farming, closer to where people live
  • ?End of corporate colonisation of food?
  • Entrepreneurial
  • Cutting labour
  • Cellular agriculture not be cost competitive
  • NZ competing against giant corps
  • They can afford high tech, NZ cannot match
  • Need more entrants
  • Monocultures disturbing
  • Accounting
  • Money and equitable
  • Equitably of wealth and food
  • Agrifood? Urban farm

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Arindam Basu

I am a Medical Doctor and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury. Founder of TwinMe,