Craig Jamieson
Director
Straw Innovations
Harpenden, United Kingdom
Straw Innovations has developed a battery-electric harvester to collect waste straw from boggy rice fields. Operations in the Philippines, Indonesia and India.
My organisation
About me
Craig Jamieson originally trained in horticulture and has a master’s degree in International Rural Development with ‘Distinction’. He has 20 year’s experience in SME management as well as in consultancy and scientific research, specialising in sustainable agriculture and biomass. Prior to starting Straw Innovations, his consultancy work took him across Africa and Asia for clients including the UK Government, UN FAO, World Agroforestry and the International Rice Research Institute.
Craig led an international research team uncovering the barriers to rice straw collection and use. Subsequently, with support from the UK Government, he established an industrial pilot plant collecting waste rice straw. Straw Innovations was born and Craig’s team is now taking it to first commercial scale in the Philippines.
Skills
- Rice straw
- circular economy
- methane avoidance
- Renewable Energy
- Agritech
Interests
- solar PV
- Batteries