Giving Compass' Take:

• Food Tank reports that the European Institute of Innovation and Technology is looking to equip agricultural start-ups and organizations to work collaboratively to create a better system. 

• How might this provide a model for the U.S. to improve our own food and agriculture sectors? Which innovations show promise?

• Here's how young entrepreneurs are revolutionizing food and farming around the world.

EIT Food is planning a new horizon for agricultural and food innovation in Europe. Connecting consumers, start-ups, industry partners, innovators, small-to-medium enterprises, and universities, the food innovation initiative aims for immediate action across disciplines toward a sustainable and future-proof food sector.

As a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), an independent E.U. body established in 2010, EIT Food implements the organization’s objectives to stimulate entrepreneurship on the path towards social, economic, and environmental wellbeing. EIT Food aims to bring the food sector into the 21st century by unifying efforts to fix the food system’s fragmented structure, lack of consumer trust, limited innovation, and slow adoption of new technologies.

Read the full on what the E.U. is doing to revolutionize the food system by Katherine Walla at Food Tank.