Inspirador Descubre Ideas, Proyectos Y Temas

New technologies can make the food system more efficient, but, how much technology can we tolerate in our connection and relationship with food?. During this conference, Robyn Metcalfe tells her journey through studying food and the history of the food supply chain.  Metcalfe explains how since she was young, she was into the food industry because her grandfather was the founder of a hamburgers chain in LA. She moved to Switzerland with a cheese producer and got interested in how little procedures to get food on your plate can be massive.  Robyn mentions other projects she has developed, such as having a farm of animal breeds that were getting extinct because they take too long to grow, and weren’t commercial. The objective of this farm was to make this species more profitable and to get restaurants interested in them. She also shares her interest in agriculture and tells a story of how cities are formed around their food systems. The historian reveals some of her techniques to get information about the fo