The food and agri food sector is the world’s largest value chain, generating close to $9.7 trillion a year and employing over 1.2 billion people globally.
This scale spans every major hub:
Agri food companies share the same challenge: feeding a growing population while absorbing volatile costs and thin margins. This is where ABGi operates, helping companies secure R&D tax credits and innovation funding to power their transformation.
Sustainability and Circular Food Systems
Reducing carbon footprint across farming, processing and packaging, cutting food waste, and scaling regenerative and circular economy practices.
Digitalisation et automatisation
Deploying AI, robotics and predictive analytics to optimise processing lines, quality control, traceability and demand forecasting.
Food Safety and Traceability
Meeting increasingly strict health and hygiene standards (HACCP, IFS, BRC) while ensuring end to end farm to fork traceability.
SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE
Managing exposure to climate driven harvest volatility, single source raw material dependency, and rising input costs.
Competitiveness and Margin Pressure
Sustaining R&D and modernisation investment despite structurally thin margins and intense pricing pressure from retail negotiations.
Trade Tensions and Food Sovereignty
Navigating tariffs, export restrictions and shifting trade alliances while strengthening domestic production capacity and food security.
$ 9.7T
Global food market annual revenue (2026)
€ 238B
EU agri food exports in 2025, world’s largest agri food exporter
1.2B
People employed in agrifood systems worldwide
19%
Of food produced globally wasted at retail, food service and household level each year
Operations & Performance
Technology
ESG & Sustainability
The experts at ABGi combine for you a deep knowledge of the industry, a forward-looking vision of the market and a thorough analysis of all the available opportunities.
Christophe AUBE, Scientific expert
PhD in Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry and Electrochemistry and University graduate in Inventions Patents, he has been advising clients on research tax incentives for 9 years, specialising in industrial sectors. He also carries out, in collaboration with our specialist partners (industrial property firms), assignments on innovation strategy and identification of industrial property opportunities for companies (pre-patentability studies of our clients’ inventions).