Keep Ecosystem Healthy for Tomorrow!

A healthy ecosystem is our natural capital! We could not live without it. Biodiversity is the key indicator of the health of an ecosystem.

We see that world population is projected to grow to 9 billion by 2050. This creates an increasing pressure to provide adequate healthcare, food and water for us.

Therefore, application of the One Health approach is really valuable to keep the ecosystem healthy.

Nearly 75 percent of all emerging human infectious diseases in the past three decades originated in animals (zoonotic diseases), especially wildlife.

The principal drivers for the emergence of the zoonotic diseases are associated with human activities, including changes in ecosystems and land use, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, deforestation, intensification of agriculture, use of antibiotics and pesticides, urbanisation, destruction of the wildlife and international travel and trade.

I know that a collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach is needed to ensure animal, human, and environmental health that covers environmental and ecosystem health, social sciences, ecology, wildlife, land use, and biodiversity.

Keep ecosystem healthy for tomorrow!

Sahara Karagöl National Park / Excellence in Nature

How to Remain Competitive in Agri-Food Industry?

 If you have trouble in agri-food industry transformation, you need to consider certain key factors:

1.     Build capacity and expertise
2.     Create a strong brand
3.     Create a global mindset
4.     Drive and adopt innovation, R&D, prototyping, commercializing and internationalization as a cultural shift and see risk and the potential for failure as opportunities for insight development that leads to growth and innovation
5.     Provide tools to support agri-food industry to innovate
6.     Create Collaborative Innovation Ecosystem in Agri-Food Industry
7.     Connect and collaborate on a global scale
8.     Focus on the end customer; tailored and personalised nutrition; clean, green, and safe products; product transparency and traceability; biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainability.
9.     Develop and implement a long-term innovation action plan
10. Use next generation of technologies as a competitive advantage in agrigenomics, robotics, IoT, remote sensing and machine learning, as well as bioscience, novel farming techniques, and food innovation and processing to drive disruption across the global food supply chain.