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⁠Top 50 Farmers⁠ is scaling regenerative agriculture by spotlighting and empowering the farmers leading the way. Their vision is to make regenerative agriculture the universal standard once again.

In this episode, Top 50 Farmers Co-Founders, ⁠Analisa Winther⁠ and ⁠Cindie Christensen⁠ pull back the curtain on the organization’s fundraising journey. They discuss the importance of finding investors that align with your vision and values and how they managed to raise almost €1 million in grant funding as a first time project.

What we cover:

·       The origin story of Top 50 Farmers

·       Why it’s time for farmers to be recognized like chefs

·       The barriers and opportunities of regenerative agriculture

·       The values and vision that Top 50 Farmers is built on

·       Top 50 Farmers fundraising process and the journey to raise and almost €1 million from the right funders

·       Tips, strategies, and advice for anyone else looking to fundraise

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About Analisa Winther ⁠Analisa Winther⁠ is an ecosystem developer, consultant, and executive coach for leaders working on food system transformation.

For more information on working together visit:

Website:⁠ ⁠⁠www.analisawinther.com⁠

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Instagram:⁠ ⁠⁠@analisa.winther⁠

Leading change through food requires a different mindset. It's not the same as building a tech or software company.

Over the years, I've coached an incredible portfolio of visionary leaders building a better future through food. Behind closed doors, I've noticed these leaders embracing a different approach to building organizations.

In this episode, you will learn the 5 leadership and mindset trends agrifood executives are using to drive change.

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About Your Host

Analisa Winther is an executive coach for leaders working on food system transformation and frequent speaker and MC for events on the future of food.

For more information on working together and to book a chemistry call visit:

Website:⁠ ⁠⁠www.analisawinther.com⁠

Newsletter: ⁠www.analisawinther.substack.com⁠

Instagram:⁠ ⁠⁠@analisa.winther⁠

Show Host:⁠ ⁠⁠Analisa Winther

On a steamy summer day in NYC, I was interviewed by Businesstalk Henriette about how I created my career and built a life I love. We discuss why building a career you love is so important and how it ripples out to have a positive impact in the world. I also share how I work with visionary leaders to build their dreams.

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Too Good To Go enables consumers to buy food that would otherwise be thrown out at the end of the day. The idea started in Denmark and has quickly spread across Europe with everyone from mom and pop bakeries to big grocery retailers getting on board. Today they've saved some 25.5 million meals and opened up a new customer segment for many food businesses. 

In this episode, we speak with Mikkel Fog Holm-Nielsen who runs special projects for Too Good To Go's management team. Join us as we discuss their ambitious strategy to fight food waste across multiple fronts. By 2020, they aim to work with 75,000 businesses, inspire 50 million people to reduce their household food waste, impact regulation in 5 countries, and have a food waste curriculum in 500 schools.

• 2:00 How Too Good To Go got started
• 5:40 Creating a business around food waste
• 14:10 Vision for the future food system and what's missing to get there 
• 17:20 How they are fighting food waste via business, politics, education, and household behavior 
• 27:30 Company culture and why much of the team from Endomondo, which sold to Under Armour for $85 million, joined Too Good To Go

Arla is the 5th largest dairy company in the world. Owned by 12,500 farmers across seven countries, they have an ambition to become the most transparent value chain in dairy.

In today's episode, we discuss this ambition with Tomi Sirén who is the head of Digital and Technological Innovations at Arla. Based in Finalnd, he’s spearheading a variety of projects focused on moving their sustainability agenda forward with emerging technologies including the Arla Milkchain. Listen in as we talk about:

• 5:30 Arla's digital transformation
• 9:00 Arla Milkchain - how they are using blockchain to trace their products and animal welfare (see video)
• 21:00 Collaborations Arla is looking for and what obstacles they are facing to scale
• 26:00 Other sustainability projects at Arla
• 28:40 Vision for the future and what we're missing to get there

Almi Invest is Sweden’s most active startup investor. With 3 billion SEK under management, they make about 50 new investments each year and have invested in 660 companies overall, some of which have been acquired by Google, Microsoft, and Apple or IPOed at a billion kroner level on the stock market. 

Join us as we speak with investment manager Karin Ebbinghaus about Almi's GreenTech fund, which only invests in companies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The fund has about 650 million SEK under management or 60 million euro. Listen in as we talk about:

• 3:50 Almi's investment thesis 
• 15:10 What a GreenTech model looks 
• 17:35 How to measure a GreenTech model's impact
• 21:20 How Almi's GreenTech fund fits into Swedens' national strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
• 30:10 Almi's vision for FoodTech ecosystem in 10-15 years

By 2050, an estimated 80% of all food will be destined for our global cities. To understand how we can make the food systems of our cities sustainable, resilient, and diverse our guest today is Emma Chow - the Project Lead for the Food Initiative at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation was launched in 2010 to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. In 2019, they launched a food initiative focused on convening food brands, producers, retailers, governments, innovators, and waste managers to redesign the food system serving cities to:

1. Source food regeneratively and locally when appropriate
2. Design and market healthier food products
3. Make the most of food by upcycling waste streams.

London, São Paulo and NYC have signed on as flagship cities to show what is possible. Join us in a wide-ranging conversation as we discuss the role of cities as power nodes in the food system as well as a circular vision for the future and the practical next steps for getting there. Whether you are a citizen, entrepreneur, policymaker, or researcher, there are clear actions for you! 

Amass has been recognized multiple times not only as one of the best restaurants in the world, but also as one of the most sustainable. For them, a zero waste kitchen has been an incredible creative constraint inspiring major changes to how this fine dining institution cooks, recycles, sources, and operates in their local environment. Today the restaurant’s food and ingredients are 90% organic. Food waste has been reduced by 75% since they started in 2013 and their annual water consumption is down by 5,200 liters. The restaurant’s facilities also include a garden with 80 varieties of plants and an aquaponic farming system.

A Native New Zealander, Kim Wejendorp was the Sous Chef at Amass Restaurant in Copenhagen before becoming their head of R&D. In this conversation, we talk about how they undertook the sustainable transition, the creative process that produces a zero waste kitchen, and what kind of partners and innovations they are looking to partner with.

Episode Transcript 

Related Links & Episodes

More interviews with Nordic restaurants

More episodes on fighting food waste

Matt Homewood on dumpster diving to stop supermarket food waste

Electrolux on designing appliances for a plant-forward kitchen

Restaurants as a center for applied science and R&D

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Not long ago, Frida Jonson and her co-founder Lovisa Madås realized that the FoodTech and AgTech worlds were unfolding in parallel. No journalism outlet was covering all sides of the story from farm to fork. So, they started AgFo, a digital media outlet covering the intersection of agriculture and food in Sweden. 

AgFo's journalists travel all over the country reporting on different trends, perspectives, and innovations in the food system. Today, Frida gives us a front row seat to the conversations being had, the emerging trends, and collaborations to look out for. We also discuss why journalism is important for ecosystem development and connecting diverse communities.

Aquaculture is the farming of fish. As the fastest growing sector in animal food production, the industry has started to attract the interest of Silicon Valley. This might also be because aquaculture is some 20 years behind traditional agriculture in terms of development leaving it ripe for innovation.

We speak with Carsten Krome who is the Managing Partner of Hatch, the first global aquaculture accelerator program operating across Norway, Hawaii and Singapore and an investor into aquaculture with the fund Alimentos Ventures. He provides an excellent introduction to the aquaculture world and what we can look forward to in this space. 

Carsten has his own entrepreneurial experience through his start-up as a prawn farmer in Malaysia and he holds a Ph.D. in feed science from the University of Stirling as well as a Masters in Marine Biology from the University of Kiel in Germany. 

If you liked this episode, check out this podcast with Ocean Harvest from Denmark on regenerative ocean farming as a solution to climate change. For more conversations, join our community on Instagram or check out other episodes on www.nordicfoodtech.io.