Dutch Box of Well Being Economy over the Food and Agriculture Perspective into an digital Icon of Ag Tech and data driven business model for the global scenario as a transformation storyline for 2025

Sagar Bavarva
3 min readMay 19, 2021

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For more than half a century, Dutch and European agricultural policy has focused on efficiently producing as much food as possible for a low price and with a reasonable income for the farmers. Using this policy that was developed by the legendary Sicco Mansholt, Dutch agriculture attracted admiration from beyond its borders and grew into a nation with the second-largest agricultural output in the world. Source: Circular agriculture: a new perspective for Dutch agriculture by Professor Drs. AG (Antoinette) Thijssen

Today’s farmers in the Netherlands are facing uncertainty in many ways, be it the impacts of climate change, rapidly changing markets or the adoption of new regulations. For example, 96% of Dutch crop farmers deal with the pressure of having to adhere to government nitrogen regulations — and thus pressure to farm more sustainably — on a daily basis. Source: Dutch Ministry of Agriculture and Food —

The world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030. If recent trends continue, the number of people affected by hunger would surpass 840 million by 2030. So creation of more sustainable methods of best practices are implemented which leads to more numbers of crops production with the help of more sustainable and organic foods ecosystem. Source: United Nations Development Social and Innovation Archives 2019.

Cities and metropolitan areas are powerhouses of economic growth — contributing about 60 percent of global GDP. However, they also account for about 70 per cent of global carbon emissions and over 60 per cent of resource use. Because of more sustainable approaches and green alternatives, ultimately the world is becoming increasingly urbanized and self efficient. Source: United Nations Development Sustainable Report of Infrastructure and Economy, 2019.

Worldwide the consumption and production is affecting a huge driving force of the global economy — which rest on the use of the natural environment and resources in a way that continues to have destructive impacts on the planet. Through various sustainable consumption and production best practices of green innovations towards the contribution for substantially to poverty alleviation and the transition towards low-carbon environment. Source: World Economic Forum Strategic Intelligence Archives 2021, Harvard Business School, & The future of food and agriculture: Trends and challenges

We at Bees Digital Co-farming a team of super enthusiastic food and agriculture farm-preneurs which has deep domain knowledge roots over food technology, innovations markets, sustainable environment and climate change. Connecting a missing gap by creating a global level smart and intelligent sustainable farmhouse. A digital solution where we are on a journey of exploration and people’s life storyline through building up to tomorrow’s food for today’s future! A brief storyline of creating a fossil-free sustainable living for the dutch sub. Source: Bees Digital Farm, Business Report of Sustainable Community — Circular Economy 2018

Source: https://www.wur.nl/en/Dossiers/file/Circular-agrofood-system.htm

Authors: Sagar Ratilal Bavarva, Patricia Ferreira Guimaraes, Leonie Gembler, Gabriela Aquije Zegarra, Nora Esther Torres Castillo, Manon van Hastenberg

For more information visit us at https://beesdigitalfarmcom.wordpress.com/

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Sagar Bavarva
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