Food sustainability

- What, When and

How?

Patrick Charlton

Vice President

Alltech Europe

sus-tain-a-bil-i-ty

[suh-stey-nuh-bil-i-tee]

Examples

Word Origin

noun

1.

the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed.

2.

Environmental Science. the quality of not being harmful to the

environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby

supporting long-term ecological balance:

The New Geopolitics of FoodThe New Geopolitics of Food

To provide enough food to feed the

world, that is safe, nutritious and

affordable…

… whilst not limiting the opportunity

for future generations to do the same

With population levels

booming and 3 billion people

trying to enter middle-class,

meat demand is skyrocketing

More people, more burgers:

50% of US corn crop going into

Ethanol production

US now a net exporter of ethanol

DDGS?

The ability to grow food is

fast becoming a new form

of geological leverage and

countries are scrambling to

secure their own parochial

interests at the expense of

the common good

Food is the new oil:

83 million hectares of land sold over the last 10 years

to foreign private and state investors

Genetic Progress has allowed for cheap food

1972 1996 2012

7%

Who has benefited ?

Source: Office of National Statistics

One apple today

has 50% of the

nutrients compared

to 50 years ago

Decline in nutrient

content of crops

from 1950 to 1999

Journal of American College of Nutrition Vol. 23 (6): 2004: 669-682

SEED to FEED

to FORK

to FUTURE

Are Drones the Future of Ag?

Absolutely not! Part of the toolkit

• Drones are only as useful as the data that guides them

Where does the data come from to guide autonomous

UAV/Drones?

• Sensors, Big Data Analytics, and Deep Machine Learning

� Digitising the Agricultural process!

We have only

identified 1% of all

microbes in the soil!

What if we were

to harness theunidentified 99%?

It’s about the Soil

Conserve – Enhance – Reap

What do these regions have in common?

Salinas Valley

(California)

Broye Valley

(Switzerland)

Chateaurenard

Region (France)

Canary Islands

Little to no soil disease!

Salinas Valley

(California)

Broye Valley

(Switzerland)

Chateaurenard

Region (France)

Canary Islands

• Contain microorganisms that

naturally protect plants from disease

• A tight-knit army of soil microbes for

defense

Suppressive Soils

Global Trials

Plants 1 inch taller with increased root depth

Control

Yield: +600kg/Ha = +8%

Milk yield per ton of silage

Control: 1525 kg milk/ton silage

Grain-Set: 1612 kg milk/ton silage

Gain: 5.7% or 88 kg milk/ton silage

Sustainable milk

Fact or fiction?

E=P+S Efficiency= Profitability + Sustainability

What we deliver to our customers?

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To conclude

• Sustainable food production is a major consideration for governments, retailers, food producers and the consumer

• Sustainable food production is achievable, but will require a change of mindset

• Technology will play a big part from food production all the way through to food distribution and storage

• Changes need to be made now