We’re going to travel into the future and unpack some of the buzzwords you’ve heard from other geeks. We’ll come back briefly and look at some things you can do to prepare, then look at the near future with some of the tech that will impact you.

Indications are that a key focus for COP27 will be to put more focus on support for developing nations.

Marks & Spencer trading manager Hannah Thirkill has been unveiled as the first star of a new series of candid behind-the-scenes videos about careers in the meat industry.

In the six-minute video , Thirkill, who looks after meat, fish and dairy at M&S, takes viewers behind the curtain to share what her role involves in a typical week – from store visits to supplier collaboration, benchmarking competitor products and scouting for NPD inspiration.

The Global Meat Alliance (GMA) has been working closely with Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) on resources to equip the international sector ahead of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS). To date, we’ve ran a number of networking sessions on this topic, developed an UNFSS Overview Report, delivered a Global Independent Dialogue, produced an outcomes report and shared expert speaker content. Today, GMA shared the UNFSS Activation Kit for the Global Meat & Livestock Sector.

The World Butchers’ Challenge, widely regarded as the ‘Olympics of Butchery’, will now take place on 2 & 3 September 2022 at the Golden 1 Center – the home to the NBA’s Sacramento Kings – in Sacramento, California.

GMA and Meat & Livestock Australia, in partnership with the IMS, convened an United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) Independent Dialogue on Wednesday 26 May on behalf of the global meat sector to generate conversations and outcomes that could be directly submitted into the UNFSS.

A global campaign backed by leading meat businesses has been launched to change perceptions of careers in the meat industry, highlight female role models and encourage more women to join the sector.

The global meat sector will be holding a Food Systems Dialogue on Wednesday 26 May (AEST) to inform the first-ever United Nations Food Systems Summit which will take place in New York in September.

Overall, the conversation was weighted heavily to the reduction of animal agriculture and the adoption of EAT-Lancet based planetary health diets. It’s safe to say, the tone, the direction and the agenda seems to have been set.

This week, Jack has published a white paper titled - The Role of Innovation in Transforming the Global Food System, which as the Exec. Summary alludes to places emphasis on the role of innovation in delivering a food system that benefits people and the planet. However, it also outlines what the agriculture sector has achieved so far through innovation alongside the positive impacts and a need to reframe the conversation to best meet the world’s needs moving forward.