Food & The City - Smart Cities Summit 2018 - Algiers
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Livingstone Greentec
Smartly Growing Together.
Smart Cities Global Technology &
Investment Summit 2018
Dianne Schepers
Algiers - 27 June, 2018
“I want men and women to
come, even though there is
no road at all ...”
-David Livingstone
FOOD & THE CITY
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Why - How – What
& the Livingstone Values
Our Why
How
What
• improve quality of life
• ensure people`s health
• protect our planet
• Application of state-of-the-art
technologies (horticulture &
blockchain)
• Sharing knowledge, opportunities
& prosperity
• Local high-tech sustainable
production (systems) for safe
food & phytomedicine
collaboration
transparency
equality
LivingstoneGreentec
SmartlyGrowingTogether.
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The Livingstone Smart Food Business Solution
FoodHubs near the city
GrowLab
(tissue culture)
FoodHub
(high-tech glasshouse)
Agricultural land
e-Trading
Platform
Internet of Things - Track & Trace – Smart Contracts - tokenization
Blockchain technology
Sustainable energy
Crops
LivingstoneGreentec
SmartlyGrowingTogether.
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Our Impact
50-90% less
water usage
50% less
energy use
60% increase
in produce
quality
50% less
fertilisers
Job creation,
knowledge
sharing
40% increase
in food
production/m2
Reduced
transport /
CO2
emissions
80% less
pesticides
80% less
waste of
plants
45% plant
mortality
reduction in
growing
phase I
Fair pay for
smallholder
farmers
10-20x faster
plant
propagation
50% less food
loss
(produce
transportation)
Access to
local and
global food
markets for
smallholder
farms
Seedlings
production
year-round
LivingstoneGreentec
SmartlyGrowingTogether.
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Advantages of FoodHubs near the City
Energy
exchange
city <>
FoodHub
Less
transport,
less CO2 –
CO2 com-
bustion
Daily fresh
vegetables
Green
oasis:
improve-
ment
quality of
life
LivingstoneGreentec
SmartlyGrowingTogether.