Reimagining the future of food with Tony Hunter

What will the future of food look like? Andy Lowe speaks with Tony Hunter, a Global Food Futurist and consultant at Future Cubed about how the agrifood industry may be shaped in the coming years as countries around the globe look to strengthen food security and food sovereignty while pursuing sustainable outcomes.

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39 min listen

by Andy Lowe

The University of Adelaide

Adelaide, South Australia

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Posted on 11 Nov 2022

Tony Hunter, Global Food Futurist and consultant at Future Cubed.

This week, we bring you another evokeAG x Food Futurists podcast collaboration with Professor Andy Lowe, exploring solutions today that will help drive sustainable food systems tomorrow.

In this episode, Andy speaks with Tony Hunter, a Global Food Futurist and consultant at Future Cubed, about what the future of food might look like and how the industry may be shaped in the coming years, as countries around the globe look to strengthen food security and food sovereignty, while pursuing sustainable outcomes.

Here he ponders the big ticket items, like how will conventional protein agriculture fair in the long run, with the emergence and growth of new protein industries such as cellular agriculture? And we learn about the high-impact emerging technologies catching Tony’s eye.

It’s always a fascinating and informative chat with Tony, so please enjoy his conversation with Andy.
You can get in touch with Andy Lowe, via his website or LinkedIn and listen to his Food Futurists or Eco Futurists podcasts.

Interested in attending evoke^AG. 2023? Join us in Adelaide, South Australia on 21-22 February 2023 at the Adelaide Convention Centre. evoke^AG. 2023 will bring together the best and brightest together to talk about how innovation and technology collide, intersect, connect, translate, complement, and challenge our most important assets – our people, our farms, our soil, our water and our Earth. Tickets for evoke^AG. 2023 Down to Earth are on sale at evokeag.com/events

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