“ We do all that through a decentralised and highly autonomous system . This is very important , because we can deploy a system on site and the user , whether that is a farmer or an operator , they do not need to know anything about farming insects . We do all of that remotely and our software does the farming . We have lowered the barrier to entry for anyone who wants to start farming insects .”
Fotiadis is adamant that there are better solutions than carbon offsetting , for companies who want to decarbonise the food supply chain .
“ Carbon offsets are a very hot area of discussion at the moment ”, says Fotiadis .
“ Our goal is to shine a light on the practices and philosophies that are contributing towards a more virtuous world ”
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“ However , the risk with offsets is that it ’ s almost like a permission to pollute . If you think : Instead of trying to minimise that , I ' m going to go and buy offsets from someone planting trees in Cambodia – then job done ! But actually that doesn ' t solve the problem .
“ If we were to use carbon offsets to mitigate this problem and decarbonise the food supply chain , we would run out of land in a few years . I am a big supporter of the net zero movement and it is great to see governments , consumers and retailers pushing towards that , but we need to start looking into how we can make meaningful changes to reducing emissions and not just continuing business as usual .”
112 January 2022