#TFFSUMMIT is on!

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It’s finally here!!!!

The 2015 Thought for Food Summit takes place today and Tech4Agri will be there live! The event is held in Lisbon, Portugal a beautiful city with rich culture, and food that serves as a prominent hub for entrepreneurship & innovation.

Meet the finalists

Hundreds of teams from universities all around the world entered the TFF Challenge, each diverse, motivated and brave enough to tackle the challenge of “How to feed 9 billion people by the year 2050?” Can you imagine the ingenuity coming out of such a competition!

From improving post harvest losses with the use of thermochromic and hydrochromic labels to an alternative meat product derived from insects; from roof top and vertical farming to community action and cooperative skill development these teams have applied science, technology, communication and simple innovation to create amazing ideas that can certainly contribute to solving this global problem of food availability and access.

Following their hard work the finalist teams had a stellar bootcamp where they developed their ideas even futher and practiced their eventual live pitch which will be held on the second day of the summit. The best to them all! View their projects at the TFF Website.

The TFF Challenge 2015 finalists at their development bootcamp. Picture courtesy Thought for Food
The TFF Challenge 2015 finalists at their development bootcamp. Picture courtesy Thought for Food

Meet the participants

Of course those who participated in the competition were welcomed to join the event and so too were all interested in making a difference. We the participants would like to thank the TFF team in advance for putting the competition and even together.

Ambassadors from the past TFF challenges and  first time participants hail from all corners; India, Uganda, USA, Bangladesh, Trinidad and Tobago, Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK and the list goes on and on!

This much interaction, networking development and comradery does nothing but motivate the young professional to go after their own goals and dreams while still contributing to issues that matter. Our TFF Community has grown even with the summit still to come.

#TFFsummit - TFF inspires new ideas and bold approaches to tackle the world’s food issues. www.tffchallenge.com.
#TFFsummit – TFF inspires new ideas and bold approaches to tackle the world’s food issues. www.tffchallenge.com.

Tech4agri will be tweeting from the event live via @wiscobasco. Follow via #TFFsummit and @tffchallenge

 

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Keron Bascombe
Keron Bascombe

Keron is a Trinidad and Tobago-based agriculture journalist, mobile content creator, and the founder of Tech4agri, a social enterprise. Tech4agri employs digital media, journalism, and communication services to assist, inform, and empower agricultural and related stakeholders. It is the first entity to use mobile technology, media, and information sharing in an innovative way, allowing us to connect with ground-level stakeholders as we seek to meet their developmental needs locally, within our Caribbean region, and internationally, given the nature of our fields. Tech4agri has a solid foundation, having supported agriyouth as a blog since 2011 before transitioning to social enterprise in 2014.

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