Podcast appearances and mentions of mary shelman

Over the last few decades, a lot of products and technologies have promised to disrupt the diets and food buying habits of the world's consumers. But nothing has made true on that promise quite like the emergence of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. These (as of now) injectables are changing the way people– and their households– eat and shop, and CPG companies, quick serve food brands, and others are already seeing a marked decline in purchasing in the months since these drugs have gone mainstream. Given the speed with which people are adopting these treatments, and how fast the therapy affects their diets and choices, many in the food and ag sectors have been caught flat footed by a dramatic change in preferences among 10% (and growing) of consumers. Who will be the winners and losers?To tell us more about what the future might hold for ag and food alike, we're joined this week by Mary Shelman, Founder at the Shelman Group. For more information and resources, visit our website. The information in this post is not investment advice or a recommendation to invest. It is general information only and does not take into account your investment objectives, financial situation or needs. Before making an investment decision you should seek financial advice from a professional financial adviser. Whilst we believe the information is correct, we provide no warranty of accuracy, reliability or completeness.

Honor the Harvest Forum is an invitation-only event that gathers food and agriculture leaders to further our global sustainable food system. Former head of Harvard Business School's Agribusiness Program and is known as a strategic pathfinder in the global agri-food industry, Mary Shelman, emceed the USFRA Honor the Harvest. Today, we gain her high-level perspective of the event and what she's keeping an eye on in the future of agriculture. 

Clean and green is to New Zealand, what the Emerald Isle is to Ireland and what innovation is to Israel. These countries have built brand identities and entire markets on leveraging their unique strengths and stories. In this episode we're bringing you three presentations recorded live at evokeAG 2023 from David Downs, CEO of New Zealand Story, Shifka Seigel, Project Manager, Israel Australian Chamber of Commerce, and Mary Shelman, Founder of the Shelman Group. What can Australia learn from these international powerhouses about how to position our producers and innovators on the world stage to deliver direct benefits across the entire supply chain?We hope you enjoy this session evokeAG 2023 examined how global agrifood innovation and tech intersect to drive change for our food, farmers, and the natural resources which sustain them.Save the date for evokeAG 2024 on 20-21 February 2024 in Perth, Western Australia. In the meantime catch up on the other conversations about sustainability, climate resilience and the role of agtech in meeting those challenges from evokeAG 2023 here.

Our global food system has a long history of evolution – responding to the changing needs of the global population. But "Are we evolving fast enough?"In this evokeAG. podcast internationally recognised thought leader and AgriFutures evokeAG. 2023 speaker, Mary Shelman,  speaks with contributor Casey Dunn about how we can accelerate our transformation, and achieve a more sustainable global food system.Mary will also join a panel discussion on Day two at evokeAG. 2023 to explore the global forces driving world trade in a discussion about climate, COVID-19, conflict and cost.We hope you enjoy their conversation.Hear more from Mary Shelman and her insights on achieving a sustainable global food system? Join us, at the AgriFutures evokeAG. 2023 Down to Earth event on 21-22 February 2023 in Adelaide, South Australia. Tickets are on sale here.View the full two-day program, including all speakers and partners making evokeAG. 2023 possible.

When a delegate stood up and said to the audience “I just can't understand why a strategy of cheap food could ever be wrong,” at a 1995 Common Agricultural Policy conference no one questioned the wisdom of this statement.  Almost 30 years later, this and other well ingrained paradigms are being re-evaluated. The big questions are whether cheap food is sufficiently valued by our society and how much does cheap food drive increased food waste. Current USDA estimates are that between 30-40% of food is wasted. This is a radicle change from only one generation ago where all table scraps and leftovers that were not eaten where either fed to pigs, chickens or even the household pets.  Mary Shelman's insight and thinking on our food and agricultural systems stems as much from her time leading the Agribusiness Program at Harvard Business School and leading the development and implementation of Ireland's nations food sustainability programme, Origin Green, as it does from growing up in rural Kentucky and spending time with local farmers. We all know the challenges that have emerged around the urban rural divide. What is less discussed in the generational challenges and opportunities facing our societies around food and agriculture. Around 70% of young people today suffer from climate anxiety. Bringing young people into the conversation and leveraging their passions and concerns must become a key component of any food sustainability program. I recently caught up with Mary to hear more about her work. You can listen to his conversation here. 

At any current conference, no matter what sector of the agriculture industry, the word sustainability is going to pop up. Last week at the GrowCanada conference, hosted by CropLife Canada, there was a whole section of the agenda devoted to sustainability. Mary Shelman, of Shelman Group and former director of Harvard Business School’s agribusiness program,... Read More

On this mid-week edition of RealAg Radio, you’ll hear from: Mary Shelman of Shelman Consulting, on sustainability food systems from a consulting standpoint; John Raines, new CEO of TELUS Agriculture joins the show for a TELUS spotlight interview; Jenny Butcher, recent winner of Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers; and, Your host Shaun Haney wraps up the... Read More

On this mid-week edition of RealAg Radio, you’ll hear from: Mary Shelman of Shelman Consulting, on sustainability food systems from a consulting standpoint; John Raines, new CEO of TELUS Agriculture joins the show for a TELUS spotlight interview; Jenny Butcher, recent winner of Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers; and, Your host Shaun Haney wraps up the... Read More

NEW “Highly Volatile” Zoom Call:  Farming, Food and Conversations About Our Future with Mary Shelman, Carter Williams, Travis Potter and Kevin Van Trump. This is one you don’t want to miss as I speak with Mary Shelman, Founder at the Mary Shelman Group and Advisory Board Member at Village Capital; Carter Williams, CEO at iSelect Fund; and Travis … Farming, Food, and Conversations About Our Future! Read More »

Mary Shelman is an internationally recognized agribusiness consultant and speaker, and the former Director of Harvard Business School’s Agribusiness program. Mary grew up in Kentucky, watching her father sell farm equipment; now, based in Boston, she helps corporations and governments tackle agriculture’s biggest problems. In Ireland, for example, she helped boost exports and build a national brand through Origin Green, a national sustainability scheme.In this podcast, Mary talks about:How companies are responding to the sustainability demands of customers - from defending traditional methods, to defying or even disrupting agriculture supply chains and markets.Why her agricultural upbringing helps shape her work as much as her formal qualifications and experiences in agribusiness case studies.How technology can help farmers and businesses better understand and use their resources as the food system changes.For our insights, Mary's research, and a picture of the framework she mentions in this episode, visit our website.

Nowadays, grocery store items are stocked full of labels: pasture raised, cage free, non-gmo, sustainable, the list goes on. But if the health and environmental problems these labels seek to address were legitimate, why wouldn't they be made mandatory? Are they just a marketing hoax or a path to a safer, healthier, more environmentally friendly food system?  We sit down with agri-business expert Mary Shelman to deconstruct these questions and more. Mary is an internationally recognized thought leader, author, and speaker on global agribusiness, AgTech, and food system trends. She is the former Director of Harvard Business School’s Agribusiness Program and has worked closely with startups, Fortune 500 companies, governments, and the FAO. She is the author of 70+ case studies on the world’s top agri-food businesses.

Mary Shelman , Founder at the Mary Shelman Group and Advisory Board Member at Village Capital, has spent nearly her entire career working in the agriculture industry. Mary grew up on a farm in Kentucky, which she still owns today. Later in life, she ventured off to Elizabethtown Community College and the University of Kentucky to earn a degree in Chemical Engineering. After a series of tough decisions, she decided to get a masters degree in general management from Harvard Business School, which… Continue Reading ›› The post Women in Ag, Millennials Affecting Agriculture, and Director of Agribusiness at Harvard with Mary Shelman appeared first on Farmtank.

Our thought leader guest is Mary Shelman, Former Director of Harvard Business School's Agribusiness Program. Food News of the Week: •What the latest Climate Report means for Agriculture. •This is how Dairy Farmers can Lead the way in Environmental Stewardship. •Ways to Grow More Food with Less Pollution. •Two Companies are Joining forces to Capture Methane from Hog Manure Lagoons! Farmer of the Week: Steve Meier, his wife Teresa, and their family, have been providing greater Jackson, Missouri area with a unique Christmas experience; offering customers a "choose and harvest" or pre-cut trees.

Mary Shelman is former director of the Harvard Business School’s Agribusiness Program and serves on the advisory boards of Crop Enhancement and Village Capital. On this episode, she shares which food industry trends she’s closely watching, the challenges and opportunities facing big companies and the degree to which consumers actually want data about where their food comes from. Share names of people you’d like to see interviewed by emailing trustinfoodpodcast@gmail.com. Learn more at www.trustinfood.com. Music: Scott Holmes, “Indie Rock,” www.scottholmesmusic.com

Its no secret that the general public has become disconnected from their food, fuel & fiber sources. As a whole, agriculture continues to be stumped on the solution. Today's guest, Mary Shelman, is the former director of the Harvard Agribusiness School.  She shares background on Harvard's program including the father of the word agribusiness. As we learn about her background, we move on to discuss a recent tweet describing agriculture as the last frontier for technology. With the advancements in GPS, drones, genetic modification, growth chambers, and RNAi, it becomes a challenge to agree with this statement. Shelman provides her point-of-view, observations and points to sustainability and agriculture's footprint as a heavy concern. The discussion covers data or, lack thereof, as a culprit to today's real food trend and disconnect. Our conversation digs deep into ownership of data, the collection and how the data should be used and by whom. What other questions should I have covered in the discussion?  

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Shelman was the director of the Harvard Business School agribusiness program and today works with organizations to help them analyze and respond to change.

Shelman was the director of the Harvard Business School agribusiness program and today works with organizations to help them analyze and respond to change.