We closed out our year by attending the Asia-Pacific Agri-food Innovation Summit held as a part of Singapore International Agri-Food Week by Singapore Food Agency and Enterprise Singapore in partnership with Temasek. Over the course of three days, we drew many insights from leaders, investors, and innovators who are working to build agri-food resilience in Asia, including where the agri-food industry currently stands, where it’s struggling, and how we as investors can provide support: 🌊 Scalability: We need to make sure that new farming methods for crops—including seaweed—are scalable to continuously meet growing food demands while taking care to reduce our carbon footprint. 🌊 Data transparency: Data transparency and traceability is critical for providing confidence to stakeholders and customers. We need to collaborate with local communities on the ground to gather accurate data on the impact and sustainability of their work, garnering more external support and trust. 🌊 Fragmented Supply Chains: Fragmented supply chains and a lack of coordination between parts of the chain lead to inconsistent data and rising costs due to inefficiencies and quality issues. One solution is providing early-stage capital for companies to digitalize their supply chains—thus improving efficiency in the production process. 🌊Support for All Stages: While most capital is going towards scaling, more capital needs to be deployed for new innovations. More flexibility needs to be given to farmers shifting into regenerative agriculture to help them transition through the stages of this process. We warmly thank the panelists and attendees who shared insights with us: Nelson Vadassery of our portfolio company Sea6 Energy Pvt Ltd., Maureen Brésil of KUL LOESNINGAR 3 PTE. LTD., Su-E Yap of The Nature Conservancy, Adam Brennan of Thai Union Group PCL., Peter Green and Benedict Tan 陈勇安 of Hatch Blue, Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda of Urchinomics, Amy Melissa Chua of Grow Asia, Simon Davis of SEADLING, Nick Hill of Coast 4C, Aaron Huang of OoNee Sea Urchin Ranch, Risa Luangthongkam, Ph.D. of Thai Wah Public Company Limited, René Benguerel of Blueyou , Peemdej Utsahajit of Charoen Pokphand Foods, Dr. Mar Fernández-Méndez of MacroCarbon, James Horton of Oceanfarmr, Karim Ghannam of 8F Investment Partners, Ahmad Baihaki of Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara, and more. Let’s continue paving the way for a sustainable future in the ocean and beyond. 🌏 Sarah Wan-Yau, Tessa Charupatanapongse, M.S.Ed, Bernice Tang, Linda Tran #AgriFoodWeek #agriculture #agricultureinnovation #sustainableagriculture #seaweedinnovation #bluecarbon #impactinvesting #potatoimpactpartners
Couldn't agree more. We need collaboration on the supply side to scale sustainable agriculture. We are truly all in this together.
Always a pleasure connecting with the PIP team. Happy holidays all!
It was great meeting you! We are all about scalable seaweed aquafarming, unifying the value chain and carbon impact!
Peter Green
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Was so great to see you all. Until the next time!
Always a real pleasure meeting the great team you are!!! Looking forward to your next trip to SG! Merry Christmas 🎄🎉❤️
A couple more panelists and attendees we would like to thank for their contributions: Yamato Adachi of Idemitsu Americas Holdings Corporation, Gary Scattergood of William Reed Ltd, Diane Boogaard of Rabobank, Laurence T.P. Jassogne at Olam Agri, Ren Hua Ho of Thai Wah Public Company Limited, Anuj Maheshwari of Temasek, Yvonne Pinto of International Rice Research Institute, Adam Anders of Anterra Capital, Hugh Bromley of BloombergNEF, Flora Ji of Shell, Jugnu Pati of ADB Ventures, and Sanjiv Louis of New Forests.