Hamish Gow
Internationally-renowned agribusiness expert
Director of Agribusiness and AgriCommerce,
Massey University
Hamish Gow Feed the World
Making the world's food safer
Think agricommerce means sitting around looking at pictures of paddocks on your computer all day? Think again.
Hamish Gow, agricommerce and agribusiness expert, has worked and travelled on every continent on earth (er, except Antarctica. There’s no grass there) He’s helping make the world’s food safer and more affordable.
The international Food Safety Network he founded is having a huge impact on food safety in developing countries, and his work has caught the eye of the World Bank, keen to work smarter in sustainable growth in food supply.
In real terms – that’s about putting a stop to world hunger…. but in a profitable manner!
Nice.
Making the world's food safer
Think agricommerce means sitting around looking at pictures of paddocks on your computer all day? Think again.
Hamish Gow, agricommerce and agribusiness expert, has worked and travelled on every continent on earth (er, except Antarctica. There’s no grass there) He’s helping make the world’s food safer and more affordable.
The international Food Safety Network he founded is having a huge impact on food safety in developing countries, and his work has caught the eye of the World Bank, keen to work smarter in sustainable growth in food supply.
In real terms – that’s about putting a stop to world hunger.... but in a profitable manner!
Nice.
Hamish Gow
Internationally-renowned agribusiness expert
Director of Agribusiness and AgriCommerce,
Massey University
AgriBusiness rock star
Hamish is kind of like a rock star of the agribusiness world.
Although Hamish probably doesn’t have as many groupies as One Direction, he’s also done a huge amount of travel, (worked in over 65 countries), and is listened to by people all over the world.
He’s worked for and consulted to a huge number of the world’s ‘acronmymed’ organisations – the European Commission, OECD, IFAD, USDA, USAID, and numerous domestic and international businesses, multinationals and farmers’ organisations.
Today the expertise of Hamish, a professor at Massey University, has caught the eye of some big international hitters, including the World Bank. They’re very concerned about population growth and projected hunger and they’re starting to work smarter with nations already successful in the agribusiness area, to ensure a sustainable growth in food supply. It’s a worthy project, with a great need – take a look at just how bad the hunger situation is in some countries.
He currently has active research and market development projects operating in Eastern Europe, Central and South America, Africa, Southern Asia and Australia and is on some of the most influential global agribusiness-related boards in the world.
Hamish’s Baby
His own baby, The Food Safety Knowledge Network was conceived when he was working at Michigan State University. It’s an internationally-awarded project that provides freely available online resources and training for workers in developing countries. It’s now used in six nations with more to follow.
Hamish’s dream is for New Zealand to be part of a system that produces safe, affordable food for everyone, anywhere all the time – and for New Zealand agribusiness to be key players in that.
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If you want to follow in Hamish’s footsteps or just want to learn more about what he does all day, check out our Area of Interest page for AgriCommerce.
There you’ll learn more relating to what AgriCommerce is really all about, what kinds of careers you can get in that field, and how Massey University can help you get started down that path – just like Hamish.