To understand agriculture in China, you need to dive deep into rural villages and understand the lives of farmers.
1. Dig deep into the villages of China to understand agriculture:
As a food source, sustainably cultivated seaweed offers an impressive list of benefits.
This is part V of the series about innovation for sustainable solutions in food production. Read here: part I, part II, part III, part IV
So we talked a lot about how to grow food more sustainably and generate more appreciation for daily food and the processes around it. …
Vertical farms and simplification of food logistics becoming more relevant in our urbanized world.
This is part IV of the series about innovation for sustainable solutions in food productions. Read part I, part II, and part III.
The possibility of keeping up uninterrupted cold chains during transport led to food production being located farther and farther from consumers. …
Gain back awareness of what food really means
This is part III of the series about innovation for sustainable solutions in food productions. Read part I and part II of the series.
Looking at how to feed more people with fewer resources more sustainably, we’ve taken everything around into consideration and defined five areas of innovation in not…
The biological diversity of permaculture is hardly manageable for one farmer but doable for AI and automated machinery.
This is part II of the series about innovation for sustainable solutions in food productions. Read part I.
How to feed more people with fewer resources?
The number of people to feed is increasing rapidly whilst the soil productivity of our earth is in dramatic decline. (read our previous article). How to address this problem? Here is our…
The oldest challenge of mankind still is one of the toughest — and will get even tougher. Thoughts on what can be next
This is part I of the series about innovation for sustainable solutions in food production.
Today, every second farm in Germany is already using smart technology to face the challenges of a global food production industry. In the following years, agriculture as we knew it will transform fundamentally. …
Tips and learnings on how to conduct remote research
TEAMS Shanghai acquired a user research project in December 2019, to collect feedback and comments regarding prepared concepts as well as observe current user behaviors with certain products through user diary studies and in-home visits.
After a successful kickstart of the fieldwork outings before the Chinese New Year, the project…
Article originally published in German
Everyone is talking about the path to digitalization. And we are already halfway down it. We as people, as employees, as friends, as customers, as an audience, as a company providing services, as a society. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the way people work…
Insights from the Cradle to Cradle Congress 2020 in Berlin
Since I got hold of the book “Cradle to Cradle: Rethinking the way we make things”[1]in 2009, I have been fascinated by the philosophy that mankind could, in fact, be beneficial for our planet instead of only “less bad”, or as an ultimate goal, climate neutral. As thought-leader Chemist Michael…
Insights from different angles and inspiring points of view
Read part I of the article here
The objects that surround us every day tell the story of our culture, the ideas we live our lives in. Often it is only when we travel and feel the strangeness of a new place that we recognize the differences to the place…
