Food Sovereignty
Food in a Tighter Margin World
Where food systems break first is now clearer: raw material supply, production consistency, unit economics, and risk pricing.
Day 2 of HackSummit is built for founders working on food systems that must keep operating under climate volatility, biological limits, and regulatory challenges.
These companies:
- build in systems where decisions are validated over years
- depend on land, biology, and physical supply chains
- pay for mistakes through yields, margins, and compliance risk
Our Topics
Production reliability
Weather volatility, soil degradation, water stress, and disease are removing predictability from crop output. Sourcing shifts from cost optimisation to securing continuity.
Soil function & biodiversity
Yield stability increasingly depends on soil health and ecosystem function. Input-heavy models face rising costs, regulatory limits, and declining effectiveness.
Ingredient scarcity & cost exposure
Cocoa, coffee, grains, and other core inputs face recurring supply breaks and price volatility. Procurement, pricing, and long-term planning are increasingly constrained.
Health, nutrition &
liability
Diet-related disease is driving healthcare costs and policy attention, feeding back into formulation, processing, and cost structures.
Risk, insurance & broken pricing
Insurance and financing models built on historical baselines no longer reflect climate volatility and ecological degradation. Coverage tightens, capital costs rise.
Who is this for?
This day is for people who understand food as infrastructure.
Founders and operators
- building across agriculture, ingredients, processing, and biomanufacturing
- working with biological limits, land constraints, and regulated supply chains
Investors and capital partners
- backing problems tied to supply continuity, cost structure, and risk
- comfortable with long timelines and uneven outcomes
Food industry leaders
- responsible for continuity of supply and margin protection
- managing procurement, production, and compliance under rising variability
Finance and policy actors
- dealing with risk that no longer prices of the past
- financing food systems under climate volatility and regulatory change
Who This Is Not For
This day is not for consumer trends detached from supply constraints, solutions that assume stable inputs and predictable margins or capital allocators looking for clean narratives, fast exits, or software-like timelines
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