Ramin Ebrahimnejad,

Business Development Manager, Advance Plant Growth Centre

The Protein Future

Ramin’s talk will explore the global transition in farming and food production — how innovations in controlled environment agriculture, crop breeding, and alternative proteins can help correct the current inefficiencies and inequities in our food system. He will highlight work underway at the James Hutton Institute and discuss what structural and technological changes are needed over the coming decades to build a more resilient, climate-ready, and nutritionally sustainable future for food.

Ramin Ebrahimnejad is Business Development Manager at the James Hutton Institute, leading strategic partnerships for the Advanced Plant Growth Centre (APGC) and the National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (NAPIC). Trained in Agricultural Engineering and Agroecology, he has worked on urban food system resilience across Denmark, Germany, and the Middle East. At Hutton, Ramin focuses on connecting research, industry, and policy to accelerate sustainable transitions in agritech, controlled environment agriculture, and alternative proteins. He also previously contributed to the Association for Vertical Farming (AVF), advancing international collaboration on food systems innovation.