This document discusses ways to enhance entrepreneurship and innovation in the food and agriculture sector. It notes challenges like population growth, diminishing resources, and climate change that create a need for entrepreneurship. However, agriculture students and STEM students often do not see themselves as entrepreneurs or connect their fields with agriculture. The document suggests reframing perceptions by highlighting sustainability, providing examples, and facilitating peer connections. It also recommends leveraging student interests through hands-on learning, mentoring, and networking to engage more students in entrepreneurship and innovation for agriculture.
BIOETHICS, a bridge between the facts and moral behaviour.UAS,GKVK<BANGALORE
Ethics guides us to make choices or judgements from the wrong to right.Bioethics refer a study of the ethical issues arising from health care, biological and medical sciences.
BIOETHICS, a bridge between the facts and moral behaviour.UAS,GKVK<BANGALORE
Ethics guides us to make choices or judgements from the wrong to right.Bioethics refer a study of the ethical issues arising from health care, biological and medical sciences.
Applying agricultural biotechnology tools and capabilities to enhance food se...ExternalEvents
Applying agricultural biotechnology tools and capabilities to enhance food security and nutrition from local food crops to stimulate sustainable income opportunities for small holder farmers to reduce poverty presentation by "Howard-Yana Shapiro, Mars Incorporated, Dranesville and
University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America"
Will Potato Growers be Allowed to Benefit from New Technology? Kevin Folta
This presentation was delivered at the Keystone Potato Producers Association Potato Days in Brandon, MB, in January of 2016. The presentation introduces the audience to the problem of a lack of communication from growers, and although new technology seeks to improve profitable and sustainable farming, there are barriers to acceptance. Potato growers are key in that equation, and using effective tools in communication is the way to find acceptance of scientific messages.
Consumer-Assisted Selection: Making New Plants that Look, Smell and Taste Be...Kevin Folta
The Plant Innovation Center at the University of Florida is an interdisciplinary group of researchers that span five colleges, conspiring to make fruits and vegetables more attractive. The work uses the model of Consumer Assisted Selection, monitoring consumer preferences and then defining breeding and production priorities based on observed outcomes. The concept is a simple one-- Use what we have learned from analysis of market segments to define what food improvements might look like, then use the best technologies to achieve those goals. (Slides created by Dr. Dave Clark for the PIC, used by Folta with permission).
Applying agricultural biotechnology tools and capabilities to enhance food se...ExternalEvents
Applying agricultural biotechnology tools and capabilities to enhance food security and nutrition from local food crops to stimulate sustainable income opportunities for small holder farmers to reduce poverty presentation by "Howard-Yana Shapiro, Mars Incorporated, Dranesville and
University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America"
Will Potato Growers be Allowed to Benefit from New Technology? Kevin Folta
This presentation was delivered at the Keystone Potato Producers Association Potato Days in Brandon, MB, in January of 2016. The presentation introduces the audience to the problem of a lack of communication from growers, and although new technology seeks to improve profitable and sustainable farming, there are barriers to acceptance. Potato growers are key in that equation, and using effective tools in communication is the way to find acceptance of scientific messages.
Consumer-Assisted Selection: Making New Plants that Look, Smell and Taste Be...Kevin Folta
The Plant Innovation Center at the University of Florida is an interdisciplinary group of researchers that span five colleges, conspiring to make fruits and vegetables more attractive. The work uses the model of Consumer Assisted Selection, monitoring consumer preferences and then defining breeding and production priorities based on observed outcomes. The concept is a simple one-- Use what we have learned from analysis of market segments to define what food improvements might look like, then use the best technologies to achieve those goals. (Slides created by Dr. Dave Clark for the PIC, used by Folta with permission).
Global Hunger - Food Security Initiative (Feed the Future)copppldsecretariat
Presentation from the Livestock Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG) Meeting 2010. 4-5 May 2010 Italy, Rome IFAD Headquarters.
The event involved approximately 45 representatives from the international partner agencies to discuss critical needs for livestock development and research issues for the coming decade.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
Impact and risk assessment of biotechnological alterations on agriculture.Also discusses the biasness towards other similar practices and its disparagement.
Enhancing Societal Acceptance of GM Crops in IndiaSenthil Natesan
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We can help provide information so the stakeholders can make informed choices and pave way for enabling policies
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Work is done by:
-BOUBLAT Hatem
-Ebid Mina
-GIAKOUMAKI Stella
-MAROUNI Zainab
-TUL Safiye
This corporate presentation summarizes the report done by a Committee commisioned by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine examining issues related to genetically engineered crops.
Preventing Residues in Tissues and Milk- Craig ShultzDAIReXNET
Dr. Shultz presented this material on November 10, 2011 as part of DAIReXNET's webinar entitled "Appropriate Drug Use and Residue Avoidance Practices".
2. The need for E&I in agriculture
Population and
consumption
Diminishing resource
base
Inefficiencies
Energy
Climate change
Conflict over resources
3. Perception is the Problem
Ag students: we don’t think of ourselves
as…
Entrepreneurs
STEM students: agriculture?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpZ0TGjbWE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
4. Perhaps it’s in the name
Agriculture & Terms
Dairy husbandry, agronomy, horticulture, forestry, etc.
Farm, crops, livestock = production agriculture
Shifts
food, ecosystems, genetics, renewable materials and
energy, local foods, organic, etc.
5. Perhaps it’s the Perception of
entrepreneur
Business person with suit & tie
Speak a different language
City lifestyle
Disconnect from natural
environment
Little appreciation for farming &
agricultural activities
IP Business model
6. Agriculture research scope at Penn State*
Ag Biological Engineering Animal Science Food Science
• Poultry • Food Safety/Pathogens
• Biosolid Systems
• Reproductive Physiology • Food Processes
• Ag Safety and Health
• Cattle Health • Food Ingredients
• Bioproducts-Cellulose
• Dairy Nutrition • Food Choices and Human
• Biofuels
• Avian Genetics Health
Entomology Plant Pathology Plant Science
• Integrated Pest Management • Turf Grass
• Turf Grass Diseases
• Malaria Research • Weed Management
• Fruit Vegetable
• Honey Bee Research • Root Systems
Diseases/Pathogens
• Insect Plant Interactions • Fruit/Vegetable Crops
• Fungi/Mushrooms
• Forest Pest Mitigation • Ornamentals/Horticulture
Veterinary Biological Ecosystem Science & Agricultural Economics
Science Management Sociology & Education
• Food System Economics &
• Avian Virology • Soil Science Sociology
• Johne’s Disease • Forest Ecology & Management • Community Development
• Infectious Disease • Fisheries Science • Sustainability in Food &
• Genetic Disease • Wildlife science Agriculture
• Entrepreneurship & Innovation
in Food and Agriculture
Department
*Based upon the author’s scan of topics at Penn State not intended to be all Key -- Capabilities
inclusive.
7. Levers to engage AgSci students
Don’t open with society’s notion of the entrepreneur
Connect on a more substantial level
Provide examples in communication to shift mindset
Facilitate peer-to-peer dialogue
Make it fun… entrepreneurs LOVE what they do
8. Levers to encourage STEM students
to innovate in agriculture
Open STEM students’ eyes
It’s not just "plows & cows”
Demonstrate tangible ties
Food, bio-energy, water, health & bio-materials
Discuss projects that impact the lives of real people
Foster peer-to-peer connections
Highlight the interplay of technology and agriculture
9. The BIG Hook- Sustainability
Providing for humanity today
and… tomorrow
Feeding the world, providing
clean water
Renewable energy and
materials
Improving the human
conditions
Fortifying natural and human ecosystems
http://agsci.psu.edu/futurestudents/careers/in-the-media/video-agriculture-degrees-the-hot-ticket-for-job-growth