#groasis

Less than one week to go until the 2017 TFF Global Summit! Here, 400 innovators, changemakers, corporate executives, entrepreneurs and researchers will come together to explore, discuss and create #whatsnext in food & agriculture!

There are so many things to do, try, eat, listen to, and talk about at the TFF Summit. This is your time to try something new, open your mind and take action towards the future of food & nutrition security you want to see in the world. On Friday afternoon, we’re welcoming a number of people to participate, facilitate, interview, and hack together in our Next-Gen Assemblies.

These are the TFF twist on the traditional break-out sessions you see at other conferences. The Next-Gen Assemblies have been specially designed to explore cutting-edge topics in food and agriculture using new types of approaches to maximize dialogue and solution development.

Time to take a step out of your comfort zone and try out a few different formats. This is your safe space to explore, be honest, try, fail and learn!

Over the next week we will deep dive into each format of the Next-Gen Assemblies. You;;; find out what they’re all about, including who is participating!

The Playground

An interactive demo space where you’ll come face-to-face with exciting innovations in food and agriculture. See, test and play around with sustainable, nutritious and delicious new foods, emerging growing technologies, and other exciting tools and platforms changing the game!

On site we will have

Meat Ice Cream by Next Nature

An Experience Pod by Sensikis

Food Powder by FoPo

Insect Butter & Oil by Biteback

A Bee Hive by Beecosystem

AGRIman from WHYFarm

The Waterboxx by Groasis

AR/VR interactivities by Auria

The Living Farming Tree by Hexagro Urban Farming

Pieter Hoff is an extraordinary man. He set out to find a way to grow trees in the desert and he actually found a way. By looking at nature for clues he discovered how to make trees survive the extreme conditions. Especially concerning water, there's rain in the desert (really!) only ones a year. So a plant has to survive 51 weeks without any water and most young trees can't deal with that (yet). 

Anyway the box Pieter invented is capable of helping trees to grow in the desert. This has huge implications because the deserts are expanding at a rate almost to fast to fight it. (article in the Guardian) So we need to do something to stop it. The question is: can Pieter scale this operation big enough to make an impact?

He should use the power of the internet to connect communities and villages fighting desertification to people with money and interest to pay for the boxes. 

Yes, according to Pieter Hofs of Groasis, you can definitely grow trees in the desert. If they manage to get the business model right and reach enough small scale farmers, this could turn a lot of land green again!

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