About the Speakers:
Isabella Pfaff and Stephan Becker Sonnenschein welcome their guests to the online event from the Global Food Summit at the Berlin Science Week 2020.
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Houston, now we have the salad - food from space for growing on earth
The Global Food Summit at the Berlin Science Week 2020
The Global Food Summit did present six future scenarios of the bio-economy in the food sciences at Berlin Science Week, on November 4, 2020. Stephan Becker-Sonnenschein, Head and Founder of the Global Food Summit think tank, explains:
Food from outer space, protein production from bacteria, CO2 and energy, wastewater treatment using algae or wheat cultivation with vertical farming in the middle of metropolises - this is no science fiction, but already reality in 2020. And these are four of a total of six scientific future scenarios that the Global Food Summit will present in its online event at the Berlin Science Week on November 4, 2020.
In live interviews, presentations and a panel discussion, high-ranking scientists, innovative start-ups and companies will briefly present their research, their products and their view of the future from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and ask questions in the discussion: Which of these are really feasible, which are already being implemented, where are the problems?
The first speaker will be the German astronaut Reinhold Ewald, who spent three weeks in 1992 on the MIR space station, and who is now Professor of Space Systems at the University of Stuttgart and a member of the INNOspace network, which promotes technology transfer between space travel and agriculture. He presents the closed loops that are necessary to grow food in space and what can be learned from it on Earth.
n addition, the climate researcher Professor Senthold Asseng from the University of Florida will report on the attempts to use vertical farming to grow wheat, which in the future can grow in the middle of cities. "Vertical farming has the potential to produce food on a large scale, regardless of climate, and thus contribute to global food security in the future," says Professor Senthold Asseng.
"The bio-economy has the power to bring about just as great a transformation of our society and economy as industrialization did some 200 years ago," says Stephan Becker-Sonnenschein. "We must face up to this transformation and help shape it, because it is our future".
This bio-economic future will be discussed on Wednesday, November 4, 2020, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., among others: Professor Justus Wesseler, Wageningen University; Professor Kai Purnhagen, Bayreuth University; Brian James Shaw of Metabolic from the Netherlands, Ard van der Kreeke, GROWX from the Netherlands; Johannes Mahn, EVONIK Industries; Felix Willert, innovate! and Dr. Michael Binder of EVONIK Industries.
Houston, jetzt haben wir den Salat - Essen aus dem All für den Anbau auf der Erde
Der Global Food Summit auf der Berlin Science Week 2020
Der Global Food Summit präsentierte auf der Berlin Science Week, am 4. November 2020, sechs Zukunfts-Szenarien der Bioökonomie in den Lebensmittelwissenschaften. Dazu erklärt der Head and Founder des Think Tanks Global Food Summit, Stephan Becker-Sonnenschein:
Essen aus dem Weltall, Eiweiß-Produktion aus Bakterien, CO2 und Energie, Schmutzwasser-Reinigung mithilfe von Algen oder Weizenanbau mit Vertical Farming inmitten von Metropolen - das ist keine Science Fiction, sondern bereits Realität im Jahr 2020. Und das sind vier von insgesamt sechs wissenschaftliche Zukunfts-Szenarien, die der Global Food Summit am 4. November 2020 auf der Berlin Science Week in seinem Online-Event präsentieren wird.
In Live-Interviews, Präsentationen und einer Panel-Diskussion werden von 10.00h bis 13.00 Uhrhochrangige Wissenschaftler, innovative Start-ups und Unternehmen ihre Forschung, ihre Produkte und ihren Blick auf die Zukunft jeweils kurz vorstellen, und sich in der Diskussion den Fragen stellen: Was davon ist wirklich umsetzbar, was wird schon umgesetzt, wo liegen die Probleme?
Global Food Summit - Lending a voice to the future of food
In growing metropolitan regions, the population expects to be able to age healthily and demands that the sustainability targets for 2030 will be taken into account along the food chain. We can achieve these goals with new methods and technologies, but these will change dramatically what and how we eat.
Every year, the Global Food Summit brings together experts from science, industry, associations, politics and the media to discuss how new technologies will affect the way of life. A collaboration of University of California, Berkeley, Wageningen University, Bavarian State Government, Technical University of Munich, National Academy of Science and Engineering and Global Food Summit.