to know what getting back to normal will really mean in terms of future lifestyle and consumer spending. Talk of the ‘new normal’ sits alongside ‘building back better’ as
COVID-19 inspirations of change. That much is clear. What we don’t know yet is how much these two phrases reflect a real adjustment of consumer attitudes and how much they’re the product of politicians and business leaders seeking to cash in on what they wanted to do in any case. For our own industry, therefore, it’s important that we cover
all bases, which is why the imminent launch of the Global Feed LCA Institute (GFLI) is starting to look like an extremely well-timed development. Having been conceived prior to COVID-19’s arrival, the timing of GFLI’s entrance may be somewhat accidental, of course. No-matter the circumstances, though, the world of animal feed is certainly ready for a body which can deliver GFLI’s promise of ‘data- driven sustainability’ perfectly designed to match consumers’ new aspirations. Thinking about what we eat and where it comes from has played
a major part in many consumers’ lockdown ponderings. For some, that means looking more deeply at farming and feed production systems, a point taken on board by GFLI’s vice chair, Nick Major. Stressing that the future assessment of emissions from livestock production must be based on facts, he says it will be impossible to accurately assess the environmental impact of feed and livestock production without a reliable database of emissions concerning the most commonly used feed materials. That means GFLI has to become the ‘go-to source of
environmental life cycle data for the global feed and animal protein value chains’, to borrow a quote from Tom Battagliese, chair of the Institute’s Technical Management Committee. Accidental or not, GFLI’s timing is absolutely perfect.
AGRI-TECH SOLUTIONS TO THE VIRUS In addition to studying what the pandemic is doing to farmers and farming outputs around the world, it’s important to focus on finding new technological solutions to the problems posed by Covid-19. That’s the research and development objective which
is set to be tackled by the UK’s Agri-EPI Centre who have a specialist Hackathon planned for late September. The idea is that participating teams will be challenged to explore solutions in two areas: restrictions on how vets can travel to conduct farm diagnoses and prescription; and the shortage of labour supply for field operations in horticulture. The teams will be given 12 hours of Hackathon time to come up
with their proposed technical solutions. Those deemed by the judges to have winning market potential will then be enrolled in a year-long ‘product launch programme’ backed by Agri-EPI. That will give the winning teams full access to Agri-EPI’s technical
and project management expertise, world-class research and innovation facilities, testbeds, and research assets. They will also be free to plug into Agri-EPI’s membership network of more than 120 companies across agriculture, technology, and the supply chain. That network includes businesses with livestock feed and nutritional input, of course, so get ready for a call.
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