All ecosystems are connected to food. Given what we know of climate change, the food industry needs to transform and revolutionalise the way food is produced. Only then can we create an environment-friendly supply chain that takes no more than what planet Earth can give. Contributed by protein technology expert Henk Hoogenkamp.
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