The Drip by AQUALAB: Innovations in the Middle East and North Africa with Fidele El Achkar

Digitizing Food Safety: Innovations in Middle East and North Africa with Fidele El Achkar

Fidele El Achkar is the visionary founder of FoodSight, an initiative aimed at revolutionizing the food industry in the Middle East and North Africa. By digitizing food safety and industry activities, Fidele seeks to modernize traditional practices, ensuring they align with global trends. FoodSight fosters collaboration among freelancers, international experts, and service providers, creating an ecosystem where stakeholders work together using a customized approach.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• Addressing food safety issues in Lebanon and the MENA region
• How FoodSight is uniting industry stakeholders and creating job opportunities
• The digitization of food industry activities and how it’s revolutionizing food safety and efficiency
• Assisting producers with export and compliance issues
• How other regions around the world can learn from the success of FoodSight

Jump to:

(05:19) How FoodSight aims to unite industry stakeholders and create job opportunities.

(07:01) Assisting producers with export and compliance issues.

(11:58) Experts fill out detailed profiles and questionnaires.

(16:17) Repositioning FoodSights as a social enterprise and expanding globally.

(19:44) This episode’s song.

(21:40) This episode’s mantra.

Featured Artist and Song:

FIGHT 4 ME by NASTY CAT

Links mentioned in this episode:

FoodSight

Fidele El Ackhar on LinkedIn

Woman by Andreya Triana,a song recommendation by Fidele El Achkar

Connect with the show

AQUALAB

Zachary Cartwright, PhD