Food 2 Lead The Future

Look for more info about Rogier's company on www.zonnespelt.nl/ and link with Rogier www.linkedin.com/in/rogier-scherpbier-757a5aa7/

It was a privilege to tap Georg's mind on his journey leading the future on a global governance scale at UN and other roles. We share the mission to have children and youth at that heart of sustainability transition. Georg is doing amazing work now, next to his distinguished career.Georg Kell established the Global Compact as the foremost platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible and sustainable corporate policies and practices. In a career of more than 25 years at the United Nations, he also oversaw the conception and launch of the Global Compact’s sister initiatives, on investment, the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), and on education, the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), together with the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative (SSE).Georg is Chairman of Arabesque Partners, an Anglo-German ESG Quant fund manager that uses self-learning quantitative models and big data to assess the performance and sustainability of globally listed companies. Its investment technology processes over 100 billion data points to select an investment universe of equities with the aim of delivering superior returns, integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) sources across 15 languages.

If you want to lead the future, how do you start, how do you find the next step that resonates with you?Carina travelled the world as a Nuffield 2023 scholar to find answers to questions like these. Listen to our conversation and how this fires up her own entrepreneurial journey?!

I had the opportunity to have this open and interesting conversation with Ruud Tijssens, Director Public & Cooperative Affairs at Agrifirm Cooperative. Sharing his view on future of food and farming, what the role of Agrifirm is together with farmers, and how he is challenged personally and how Agrifirm can play a role in the system. Valuable analysis how he looks at the agrifood-system and what we need to do to become future proof.

Kobus Pienaar is programme manager Farming for the future from Woolworths South Africa and is responsible for looking at ways to ensure Woolworths contributes to a sustainable Food System in South Africa. He has amazing experience to get stakeholders together including young people to work on important challenges like conservating one of the most improtant biodiversity hotspots in the world in South Africa.He states: The fundamental principle of the Farming for the Future programme (FFF) is to work with nature, not against it.

Join me in the conversation at the African Food Systems Summit, with these youth leaders from Africa, making way for a new generation in Agriculture!Amongst others:Alex: Winner Gogettaz agripeneurs award 2021https://gogettaz.africa/agripreneurs/alexandre-nshimiyimana-sanit-wing-rwanda/Alex enterprise:https://vc4a.com/ventures/sanit-wing-ltd/Lucy: AGRF's Rising Starhttps://farmersreviewafrica.com/agras-women-agripreneurs-of-the-year-awards-waya2023-announces-its-winners/Lucy's enterprise:https://agrodemy.wordpress.com/meet-the-team/

Whilst the next RTRS meeting point has been announced, Lieven and i look at the future of RTRS and how knowledge sharing works (with a new generations) for the future of RTRS.