The Food Fight

Co-Founder of Climate Farmers, Philippe Birker grew up around farming, built startups in Berlin and Amsterdam, ran a techno club, then bought an abandoned village in Portugal and fell in love with soil. What he found next changed everything.

Traditional farming is struggling under climate chaos, stricter rules, and brutal price pressures. PerPlant co founder and CTO Sumod Nandanwarn bolts AI eyes onto the tractors farmers already own, turning every pass across the field into a precision spray decision that cuts chemicals by up to 80 percent and helps growers claw back profit without buying new machines.

Donát Posta grew up farming. He knows first hand how many things can go wrong in a field, yet one category stands out. Insects. With Scout Labs, he is wiring up ordinary pheromone traps, turning them into a global early warning system.

Why do good intentions fail at the bin, what changes behaviour, and how did Inform Pack turn frustration in the kitchen into real shifts across Europe? Packaging experts Niki Alexi and Geraldine Vásquez pull apart the myths on “recyclable” logos, food packaging waste, and who really carries the weight for fixing the system.

Food Educators lead Fabienne Ruault turned her childhood on a French organic farm into a Europe wide movement that has already reached 10,000 teachers and nearly 200,000 students. She takes us through how lesson plans, local hubs, and career days are helping young people link what is on their plate to health, climate, and future jobs in food.