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SAN FRANCISCO, March 1-- Food-tech innovators and entrepreneurs from the United States and China are calling for a greater government role in helping innovate food technologies. The representatives from the food industry gathered on Thursday in San Francisco to explore the opportunities of food technologies. The event, with the theme of "The Future of Food," was organized by GlobalSF, an organization committed to facilitate investment in San Francisco, in partnership with RocketSpace, a San Francisco-based tech startup accelerator. The speakers shared their opinions on the future of food, new investment opportunities, and the disruptive food innovation emerging from the San Francisco Bay Area and globally. They agreed that government can play a big role in transforming the global food ecosystem and addressing food challenges. Both public and private sectors can work together to solve some of the biggest challenges facing the food industry, said Daniel Kurzrock, co-founder of ReGrained. His company works to reduce food waste by taking spent grain from beermaking that would typically be thrown out and turns it into flour. "The reality is markets fail all the time, and in my opinion, market-based solutions alone are not sufficient," he said. One of the things that are "pivotal" in their development is that they got in touch with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) -- an in-house research agency of the department, according to Kurzrock. | 
