Buy local, or bye bye local. Food items from local suppliers is more sustainable and very flavourful. But are all ingredients in your product actually sourced from the area? In this edition of Data Dilemmas, we look at food-related data.
An increasing number of organisations seek to offer their employees and customers food made with local products. This is not only delicious, but also healthy for nature and the regional economy. Eating nearby produced food helps the food transition. But to know how local a product really is, takes a lot of data. The dishes on a lunch may be locally prepared, but where do the ingredients come from? We often don’t know that very well. An agri data commons may be a solution to this issue. We will discuss this with various speakers, and each other.
Want to learn more about what a data commons is? Check out our Data Commons Collective initiative.
Programme
- 15:30 – 15:45 Doors open
- 15:45 – 15:55 Welcome & introduction by Amsterdam Smart City
- 15:55 – 17:00 Programme includes the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Big Data Value Center and Flevo Campus
- 17:00 – 17:30 Q&A and panel discussion
- 17:30 – 18:00 Wrap-up and networking
Speakers
Kees-Willem and Jan Wester: Local and sustainable procurement and the Agrifood Data Common
Kees-Willem Rademakers, lecturer and researcher at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, and Jan Wester, director Big Data Value Center and intendant DVC Agri&Food, kick off this edition of Data Dilemmas. The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the University of Amsterdam have the ambition to locally and sustainably source food for their cafetaria. This requires robust and transparent local food chains in which true cost pricing is an integral part. In a Agrifood Data Common, companies in the short food chain can share their data in-house. Kees-Willem talks about dilemmas you run into in procurement. Jan talks about dilemmas around security of supply and food safety and discusses how the Agrifood Data Common can help with that.
Lenno Munnikes: The Supermarket of the Future
Lenno Munnikes, director of the Flevo Campus, has long been involved in the subject of food. The Flevo Campus focuses on urban food issues, from a consumer’s perspective. Almere is the Living Lab of the Flevo Campus. The Supermarket of the Future is one of their projects. In it, they look at how to get more local products into the supermarket. But what is ‘local’? And is local really more sustainable and healthier?
Leen Felix: Environmental impact in the food chain
As an ecologist and data analyst for Metabolic’s Agrifood team, Leen Felix helps companies in the food chain map their environmental impact, prioritise and take the right actions. Leen takes us on a journey from product portfolio to environmental impact and real action. Traceability and measurability are key themes that recur here as well. Leen also encounters substantive dilemmas around the impact of cultivation sites on their environmental impacts and the conflicts between sustainability issues such as climate, land use and water use. This makes the road to good advice complex, but extraordinarily fascinating.
More information
Four times a year, our Amsterdam Smart City programme explores opportunities to use data and new technologies to address urban and societal challenges. The emphasis here is on responsible digitalisation.
The goal is to use data to make cities safer, cleaner and more accessible. But what happens to all the data collected? What dilemmas do we encounter when collecting (personal) data to improve the city? These questions matter to everyone: governments, knowledge institutions, businesses and civil society. The Amsterdam Smart City network is happy to explore with you what decisions are needed for responsible use of data.
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