TECH4GOODFOOD: How cutting edge technological innovations are making the mission of providing good food for everyone, everywhere, every time possible.

Hello family, this is week four and the fourth edition of The Food Renaissance, I am grateful for the opportunity to write to you weekly and to discuss the systems that capture, produce, process, distribute, and deliver the foods we love, enjoy, and need to keep our bodies nourished and inspired to live out all our dreams and become all that we can imagine.

Earlier in the week we had the maiden edition of TECH4GOODFOOD a chat between myself and my CTO Bezaleel Nwabia on how cutting edge innovations are driving the needed efficiencies within our food systems, and I thought it wise to make this the focus of the conversation this weeks on the newsletter.

The build up to the TECH4GOODFOOD looks very organic in retrospect, we started by exploring food systems in the introductory edition of The Food Renaissance and to juggle our memory and to ensure we are all being carried along even if this will be the first edition of The Food Renaissance you get to read I will do a brief refresher.

Food systems are probably the most ancient human construct, we have been understanding existing frameworks in the created universe & developing new methods, processes & techniques, that capture, produce, process, distribute, and deliver food for human and animal nourishment as long as man has been on the scene, the development, or production of, processing, distribution and delivery of food has been identified as the predominant driver of growth in many low and middle income countries or economies, more efficient at reducing poverty and creating jobs than growth originating in any other sector.

Putting it simply, the food system is a complex web of activities involving the capturing, production, processing, distribution, delivery, and consumption of good food.

These most important systems that form the bedrock of life and living need to be intentionally designed and implemented and the right approach is a matter of continuous discourse, I will share what we have found to be the most effective, agile, resilient, and sustainable approach. By the way you can catch the full session of TECH4GOODFOOD on YouTube here: TECH4GOODFOOD

Before I go further I will like to share how we define GOOD FOOD at Quick Leap

Good food is food that is nutritious to the body, tastes good, looks good, is affordable & accessible.

Good food is functional, beautiful & viable, In essence good food is functional in that it provides the nutrition needed for optimal growth & development from infancy to adulthood, it is beautiful in that it is pleasing to sight, it tastes good, and it is viable in that it is affordable & accessible.

So to architecting and building resilient food systems, there are a few key things to think of when designing and building functional, agile, resilient, effective & sustainable food systems from a desired outcome perspective;

1. Collaboration & a network effect
2. A multidimensional, non linear architecture that captures the organic nature of life and captures all the factors of production including viable financing.
3. End to end integration across the ecosystem
4. Transparency & traceability
5. A global market approach
6. Predictable repeat or reoccurring revenue for all the participators
7. A scalable system
8. Food & food products matched to desired nutritional outcomes
9. Mass job creation and economic growth
10. Agility, integrity, malleability, reliability, and a system unaffected by disruption.
11. Ease of use &
12. Zero waste

I know it is a long list, and it is not all there is to think about, lets discuss some of the important points that we have highlighted above and then see how our cutting edge innovation called Collaborator employs all of these features and more in delivering value to food system actors and making good food available for everyone, everywhere, every time.

The collaborative approach Collaborator employs provides a sustainable network effect as it connect multiple actors and their activities across the food system establishing scale and ensuring resilient supply chains for the food system actors we work with and for the markets that need their output, this design employs a multi-user, non linear approach to capturing the needs of the different food system actors collaborating within the network and providing good food for everyone, as it takes into consideration the nutritional outcomes our users desire whether they are individuals, families, or businesses who need high quality, well graded food raw materials. All of the food produced in the ecosystem is fully visible and traceable as the system provides clarity on the origination of every food product, how it was grown, with what fertilizers it was grown, where it was grown, which helps individuals & businesses make better informed food & raw material choice decisions,

Using our field agents Collaborator provides end to end integration of the multiple actors and all their activities across the food system, providing transparency on what is produced, where it is produced, when its is produced, and how it is produced, through Grow for Life we ensure food products are matched to desired nutritional outcomes as users are able to tell the system the ages of their household members and get recommendations on food with the nutrition best suited for optimal growth and development of every house hold member.

It is no longer just putting products on a shelve but delivering nutritional outcomes by working with the user to deliver food that meets their nutritional requirements in an orderly, and timely manner delivering exactly what the customer wants when they want it, working with them to achieve their nutritional and dietary outcomes, and same for food businesses and their raw materials. This approach ensures predictable repeat and reoccurring revenue for all the food system actors participating as value is captured across multiple nodes across multiple value chains for its multiple users B2B & B2C.

Collaborator employs a global market approach that inculcates local and export markets & ensures increased profitability and consistent demand all year round, creating mass jobs & ensuring that the food system actors we work with are sustainably growing in their ability to earn and how much they earn. Something very essential to mention is how this system caters to itself, the output from the farmer is the input for the food processor, the output from the food processor the input for the Chefs, restaurants, hotels, individuals and families, the field agents that run these system are gainfully employed, added on the third party logistics partners that ensure that all of the food moves to where they should when they should eliminating waste within the ecosystem as there is visibility on everything within the ecosystem & all of the output from one food system actor is the input for the other food system actor and for the end users as I mentioned earlier.

This distributed collaborative model allows for agility, resilience, and adaptability within food systems allowing production to be tied directly to the demand, eliminating multi-intermediation and providing efficiencies across board. this approach reduces overall cost at the markets and increased profitability for the food system actors,? this approach also allows for diversity of output as the products are reflective of the diversity in food choices and preferences meeting the demand of different palates across diverse cultures.

This is what the food systems of the future looks like, technology enabled production, processing, distribution, tracking and delivery of food matched to desired nutritional outcomes and specific or specified needs and we are excited to have built this and to be building it out.

Good food is a happy discourse!

Haven looked at the advantages and disadvantages of both systems i.e. linear and multi dimensional non linear systems we have developed a solution that takes into consideration the strengths of both systems and factors in the solutions to their weaknesses and architected and built out a non linear multi dimensional architecture through the collaborative efforts of various food system actors forming a network effect that is agile, resilient, and adaptable. This system ensures our food systems are pandemic or earth changing events proof and they can cater to the needs of people everywhere, every time. This solution is viable for all of the stakeholders, the food system actors, Quick Leap and the end users B2B and B2C.

This approach also allows for diversity of output as the products are reflective of the diversity in food choices and preferences meeting the demand of different palates across diverse cultures.

I am mindful of not making this edition too long, I typically try to keep every edition at a five to 7 minutes read, I hope this gives you a clearer picture of what the design for a functional food system could look like in real time.

Do check Collaborator I will be excited to get your feedback and your thoughts.

Have an amazing weekend and make out sometime to enjoy the conversation we had at TECH4GOODFOOD

I will circle back to discussing the other important constituents of a functional food system we listed out here in subsequent editions of The Food Renaissance.

Do let me know how we can make The Food Renaissance more fun and engaging, good food is a happy discourse.

Bye for now, see you all next week!

Cheers!

Damion

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