How Agroecology Is Quietly Formulating Food Ingredients of The Future
ALTHOUGH formal advertisements might be spreading the impression that fast foods are taking over African food systems, social media channels are showing how future-oriented African food scientists and indigenous food formulators are quietly using agroecology ingredients to alter the global food landscape.
In addition to extending some indigenous food ingredients to the diaspora, this movement is giving birth to several food-related business models anchored on African mass markets. These markets are viable meeting points for advancing shared economic development goals and celebrating a common culture. To buttress this silent, incredible transformation, agroecology needs more start-ups in food formulation to match what is happening on the production side, where a lot of raw agroecology commodities are being produced to compete with exotic commodities.