Food Futures Net Zero:

Measure, Record & Validate DLT technology towards sustainable food consumption

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964678. The content of this website does not represent the opinion of the European Union, and the European Union is not responsible for any use that might be made of such content.

Recent Milestones

August 3, 2023

Press release: Blockchain-based app provides information about food impact

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March, 2023

Food Futures Project MOOC Report: Measure, Record and Validate DLT Technology for Sustainable Food Consumption

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April 4, 2023

MOOC Book published

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December, 2022

MA Thesis: Food Wellbeing and suffering index for sustainable food consumption

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November 10, 2022

Video Contest – International Weeks Commons

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March, 2023

Completion of the ‘Sustainable Consumption’ MOOC 3

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Our vision:

Net Zero Food System
Eight billion people live on Earth, and eat to stay alive. Agriculture accounts for up to 14% of greenhouse gas emissions. This area of human activity is relatively easy to make more sustainable compared to energy consumption in industry, heating, and transportation. Food Futures supports more sustainable meal choices by transforming intention into action.


Issuing Foodprint tokens

We implement a DLT system that brings digital transparency into consumers’ choices at that crucial point between the farm and the fork. Our blockchain technology provides a Measure of sustainability impact, a Record of individual and community choices, and a Validation of sustainable consumption.


Food Futures app: to Measure, Record & Validate sustainable meal choices

Collaboration with the biggest student cafeteria chain in Finland: UniCafe

We’ve been partnering with Unicafe since March 2022, and share the aim of greenhouse gas abatement. Unicafe strives to serve meals with 0.5 kg of CO2e emissions, or less. We complement their goal with the Food Futures app that displays the sustainability impact of meal options at Unicafe venues.


Our business model: Gigacorn

A gigacorn is a company that sequesters or lowers greenhouse gas emissions a gigatonne/year, and is commercially viable. Food Futures Net Zero is positioned to take a step toward lowering emissions counted in metric tonnes. Each 500 beef burgers converted into 500 plant-protein burgers achieves roughly 1 metric tonne of CO2e reduction.

Our Partners

Core Team

SM Amadae

Program Director
Global Politics and Communications, Politics
University of Helsinki

Co-PI ATARCA
Aalto University
Department of Communications and Networking

Shreya Sood

Service Designer
Food Futures research at ATARCA

Alumni, MA Creative Sustainability
Aalto University

Ruta Jumite

MA Thesis worker, ATARCA
Thesis title: Food Wellbeing and Sustainability Index – Application of actionable communication tool for sustainable transitions

Sini Valmari

PhD candidate,
Information Systems,
Aalto University School of Business

Tejas Kotha

PhD candidate,
Information Systems,
Aalto University School of Business

Matti Rossi

Professor,
Information Systems,
Aalto University School of Business

András Rátonyi

Web Developer

Consortium Members

Jarmo Suoranta

CEO TX

Hanna Lagström

PhD, Adjunct Professor (Nutrition),
Senior Researcher, Climate Nudge Project,
University of Turku

Markku Nousiainen

Senior designer, TX

Xavier Irz

Professor,
Department of Economics and Management
Agricultural Economics.
Doctoral supervisor,
Sus­tain­able Use of Re­new­able Nat­ural Re­sources

Advisors

Riina Koivuranta

Senior specialist,
Sustainability and responsibility,
University of Helsinki

Matthew Schutte

Senior specialist,
Holochain Business Development
Typography

Pekka Ilmari Nikander

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964678. The content of this website does not represent the opinion of the European Union, and the European Union is not responsible for any use that might be made of such content.