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Introducing Katie Henderson, STAMP participants participating in the upcoming IFAMA 2024 World Conference agribusiness

Written by thomas on April 21, 2024. Posted in Uncategorized.

Ten of our STAMP participants will be participating in the upcoming IFAMA 2024 World Conference agribusiness-specific Global Student Case Competition — the only one of its kind globally — providing students and their universities a world stage to showcase future #primarysector leaders.This year our participants will be heading off to the beautiful Almería, in Southern Spain, (17-20 June).As we head towards the event we will be show-casing some of our outstanding STAMP participants.Introducing Katie Henderson and her remarkable journey within our cohort.As I am in my second year of the STAMP...

Introducing Matthew Oei, STAMP participants participating in the upcoming IFAMA 2024 World Conference agribusiness

Written by thomas on April 14, 2024. Posted in Uncategorized.

en of our STAMP participants will be participating in the upcoming IFAMA 2024 World Conference agribusiness-specific Global Student Case Competition — the only one of its kind globally — providing students and their universities a world stage to showcase future #primarysector leaders.This year our participants will be heading off to the beautiful Almería, in Southern Spain, (17-20 June).As we head towards the event we will be show-casing some of our outstanding STAMP participants.Introducing Matthew Oei and his remarkable journey within our cohort.Kia ora, I’m Matthew, and I currently work as...

Future of food – gene genius

Written by thomas on April 10, 2024. Posted in Uncategorized.

The article is written in collaboration with Vincent Heeringa, based on interviews with John Caradus, Joanne Hort, Richard Newcomb, Revel Drummond, and Peter Cook. It considers the threat and opportunity of gene technology to New Zealand’s food and fibre industry, presenting our arguments clearly for all to read. It is timely to launch this when there is so much chatter on where changes in regulations are likely to land over coming months. Our point here is to make regulations proportionate to risk. Working on behalf of a partnership is really powerful when we can share knowledge and insights...

Riches in Niches: How well is the New Zealand food sector innovating to meet global demand?

Written by thomas on April 9, 2024. Posted in Uncategorized.

Where New Zealand used to have a few big companies exporting a handful of products, now thousands of entrepreneurs are exporting hundreds of brands, often with the help of contract packers and online channels Is our food sector slow to adapt? New Zealand companies still don’t scale fast, and few are investing in consumer research Marketing is expensive and our companies generally don’t have the budgets to connect directly with the end consumer in export markets. That makes our business-tobusiness (B2B) relationships crucial ...

Alternative proteins are here – the next 30 years could be crucial for NZ’s meat and dairy sectors

Written by thomas on March 29, 2024. Posted in Uncategorized.

Essentially, the modelling found that the growth of the #alternativeprotein sector has an impact on sheep and dairy in New Zealand: dairy being particularly sensitive to developments in precision fermentation that produces direct substitutes for whey protein and casein. Watch out for the full report – but read the synthesis in the article in the Conversation today. Read More Latest Articles

Miruku grabs more capital as its plant-based dairy tech reaches proof of concept

Written by thomas on February 28, 2024. Posted in Uncategorized.

FoodHQ launch a new hub alongside the release of the Manawatu Regional Food Strategy

Written by thomas on December 13, 2023. Posted in Uncategorized.

FoodHQ CEO, Dr. Victoria Hatton is excited that the physical presence will help to provide visibility to the organisation and help to demystify what FoodHQ does at a pivotal time in their development. FoodHQ represents the largest collaboration of food science and innovation in New Zealand. Its vision is to build a truly sustainable food system in New Zealand that is equitable, innovative and export focused. This will be achieved by bringing people together to realise our collective food innovation potential and create more value, faster. “In the past six to nine months we have done a lot of...

Getting inventive about how we make food

Written by thomas on October 18, 2023. Posted in Uncategorized.

Who is to say we won’t live to see a version of Violet Beauregarde’s three-course-dinner chewing gum as ideated by Willy Wonka become a reality, says Dr Victoria Hatton. I have been very fortunate, six months into a new job, to travel to the United States and Australia to learn, to calibrate my thinking, test ideas and form new ones. I have also built new friendships and new collaborations. After such a fabulous trip, its important to distil my thoughts, and share those that are relevant so that others can learn from my experience. There are three key takeaways. The global...

Canterbury scientists working to create ‘balls of fruity deliciousness’

Written by thomas on September 7, 2023. Posted in Uncategorized.

Researchers on the trials hope to recreate the taste and nutritional benefits of regular fruit. The team at its Lincoln site, south of Christchurch, have been working with cells from several different fruits, including blueberries, apples, cherries, feijoas, peaches, nectarines and grapes, for the past 18 months. Read More Latest Articles

New proteins NZ could be best at growing

Written by thomas on July 31, 2023. Posted in Uncategorized.

FoodHQ’s report, Unleashing Aotearoa NZ’s Next Protein Revolution, focuses on NZ’s chances of success in producing 10 of these novel proteins. The four that rank highest are hemp, leafy greens, seaweed and fungi. FoodHQ chief executive Dr Victoria Hatton said the report builds on two other pieces of work that identified the options and highlighted the need to understand where our strengths could align with the sector. “The intention of the report was to really help us understand how we can best go about contributing to the emerging protein supply market based on what our ‘uniqueness’...