Food is Health

Consumer preferences for food are rapidly changing. From how it's grown, to how it's made, what it's made from and how it tastes, consumer awareness of what we eat is higher than ever before. Given recent and future changes to these preferences, food companies must adapt to working with new ingredients, supply chains and messaging in order to remain relevant.

During this month's Food & Agriculture Deep Dive webinar we focus on how major food CPG companies are working to support their customers' changing needs while meeting the challenges and opportunities of an evolving food system. Our panelists include experts from Hershey’s, ASR Group, Bonumose and others.

Healthy soil is at the root of food quality and yield, and soil carbon is a key component of healthy soil. In fact, as the main component of soil organic matter, it is carbon that gives soil its water-retention capacity, its structure and its fertility. But in order for all the benefits of improved soil carbon storage to be realized, a deeper understanding of how to measure, manage & standardize it is needed. It is time for new solutions.

In this iSelect Deep Dive on Soil Carbon Measurement, Management and Marketplaces we dug in on all of these challenges and how the market is adapting to support soil health across all three of these verticals.

We were joined by Ray Riley from Soil Carbon Co.; Chris Harbourt, Indigo’s head of carbon; Paul Gambill the founder of Nori; David Stanko with Nutrien; and Russ Conser, the CEO of Blue Nest Beef.

In no other industry are democratization and cost reduction more needed than in healthcare. With technology advancing and costs dropping, consumers are more empowered than ever before to take control of their healthcare -- from genomic testing, to price transparency, to remote care management and beyond.

In this Deep Dive on the Consumerization of Healthcare we dug in on all of these changes and what they mean for the future of medicine and patient care. We were joined by Craig Froude from MedZero, Brenda Irwin with Relentless Venture Fund, Sunny Jain, the founder of Sun Genomics, Greg Peters from Better Healthcare and Kim Wagner with TPGD Partners.

We know that eating well and avoiding foods with refined sugars is crucial to good health, and it is well documented that poor diet is implicated in diseases like Type II Diabetes and obesity. However, it is becoming increasingly understood that sugar, particularly refined sugar, plays a role in a wide variety of chronic diseases that plague modern society, from diabetes, to Alzheimer's, to cancer.

In this month's Healthcare Deep Dive we explore the links between the consumption of sugar and the development and progression of chronic diseases.

Responsible nutrient management is an indispensable part of sustainable agriculture. Nitrogen, phosphate, potassium, and many other nutrients are necessary components in the production of crops used for food, fuel, and feed. If over-applied, however, these nutrients can harm ground water, surface water, air quality, and other parts of the ecosystem, as well as cause negative consequences to plant health and crop yield. As such, farmers and researchers are seeking to enhance nutrient use efficiency — the amount of yield a farmer gets out of the amount of fertilizer (or other amendment) put in — while minimizing nutrient loss.

Join us as we discuss the technologies, companies, and people addr

Wearable devices enable us to collect data to monitor our health at home. Exciting advances in technology increase the information we can access to make health decisions. In this Deep Dive, we will explore the data that we can track at home, how this data is used to manage chronic disease, and the companies working to develop this technology.

As COVID-19 continues to shake the globe, it’s leaving many uncertainties in its path. Near-term uncertainties include testing capacity, immunity, and when we can get back to normal. Longer-term uncertainties are harder to predict but equally important, and their groundwork is currently being laid. Opportunity hides in times of uncertainty, and we are committed to finding and championing the best companies, people, and ideas in healthcare.

Please join us for this month's Healthcare Deep Dive. We will be exploring the long-term effect of COVID-19 on the healthcare sector.

What will change? What will remain the same?

What will be accelerated?

Join us as we discuss future possibilities and how we can position ourselves and our portfolio for success.

Our Guest Panelists
Jarret Glasscock, PhD, CEO Cofactor Genomics https://cofactorgenomics.com/
Chris Palmer, MD Intensivist Barnes Jewish, Co-Medical Director Tele-ICU https://www.barnesjewishwestcounty.org/teleicu
Sean Thompson, CEO Psigryph https://www.agshowcase.com/psigryph-inc
Kim Wagner, PhD, TBGD Partners https://tbgdpartners.com/

This video is a part of our Healthcare Deep Dive Series. For more Deep Dives, visit our website: https://www.iselectfund.com/deepdive/

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