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Circular Food Systems Are The Answer: Findings From The First Major Study On Their Potential
A new study suggests that we don’t need to wait for techno-based solutions to make our food systems more sustainable.   If there is a way to make our food systems more sustainable without having to wa …
Nestl' enters into pizza joint venture with PAI
Swiss multinational Nestlé has entered into a joint venture with private equity firm PAI Partners. The venture will focus on Nestlé’s frozen pizza brands in Europe. The company's pizzas already genera …
Alternative proteins sector is growing and needs government support, reports say
Alternative proteins — derived from plants, fermentation and cell cultivation — have grown in terms of companies, investments, products and manufacturing capacity in the recent past, reports from the …
The Role Of High Payload Drones In Agriculture As Flying Robots
Drones are being used for an ever widening range of agricultural applications enabled by new technology and diminishing regulatory constraints. Most current drone options are small, battery powered un …
ADM And Believer Meats Partner To Expand Cultivated Meat Industry
A new protein partnership aims to widen the protein ecosystem by expanding meat alternative offerings. Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), a global conventional protein leader, and Israel’s Believer Meats, …
The Biggest Future Trends In Agriculture And Food Production
To feed the growing global population, estimates suggest we’ll have to increase food production by as much as 68 percent by 2050. And that’s not the only challenge; there’s also the fact that the midd …
Why Big Food Is Looking To AI To Shape The Future Of Food
This week, French dairy giant Bel Group announced they had entered into a partnership with Climax Foods, an AI-driven food startup founded by former Google head of data science and astrophysicist Oliv …
Hawai?i's Mushroom Boom Is Here
Down a muddy road in Waimanalo, half an hour from bustling Honolulu, Fung Yang cuts airy portobello mushrooms from miniature landscapes of white mycelium inside of a temperature-controlled shipping co …
$8 Billion U.S. Plant-Based Food Sector Shows 'Momentum and Resilience', PBFA Report Finds
In its State of the Marketplace 2022 Summary Report, the Plant Based Foods Association takes a deep dive into the category and identifies key trends ahead.   Despite inflation over the last year and l …
A new world order? BRICS nations offer alternative to West
The acronym began as a somewhat optimistic term to describe what were the world's fastest-growing economies at the time. But now the BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa — are se …
World food prices fall for 12th month running in March - FAO
ROME, April 7 (Reuters) - The United Nations food agency's world price index fell in March for a 12th consecutive month, and is now down 20.5% from a record high hit one year ago following Russia's in …
Moooove over: How single-celled yeasts are doing the work of 1,500-pound cows
BERKELEY, Calif. — The first course was a celery root soup lush with whole milk. The last was a spice cake topped with maple cream cheese frosting, served with a side of ice cream. And then a latte wi …
Hershey reimagines manufacturing to navigate lingering supply chain challenges
Hershey is making more of the sweets and snacks consumers want with less and overcoming extreme supply chain challenges by replacing and repurposing underutilized manufacturing capacity, ditching conv …
Scientists develop color-changing sensor to detect food spoilage
KOREA – Scientists from the South Korean Pusan National University have created a color-changing portable sensor that swiftly identifies biogenic amines (BAs) to combat hazardous substances left behin …
PepsiCo asks suppliers to avoid buying palm oil from major producer in Indonesia
PepsiCo is among the latest consumer goods companies to ban palm oil from Indonesia-based conglomerate Astra Agro Lestari in its supply chain. AAL, which owns palm oil plantations in Indonesia, was ac …
A world without hunger is possible. This is how!
Food prices around the world are at a historic high, and as of 2021, an estimated 2.3 billion people are either moderately or severely food insecure1. The Ukraine crisis has made this even worse, cutt …
2023 Manufacturing Outlook: Optimism, But Not Too Much
Optimism (but not overwhelming) and plans for expansion will be a big part of 2023, if the responses to our Manufacturing Survey are anything to go by. About 18% of our respondents said they are “very …
How has China maintained domestic food stability amid global food crises?
A perfect storm of climate shocks, pandemic aftereffects, economic instability, and the Ukraine conflict has made the global food crisis a stark reality. As many as 828 million people, or 10% of the w …
Canada's Opportunity to be a Global Food Superpower
Climate change, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine are just some of the crises that have exposed an unfortunate new reality — our global food supply is perilously insecure. Russia’s illegal invasion of …
A vegan cheese that tastes like the real thing? Lab project working on just that
Cheese-lovers who have tried vegan cheese often bemoan that it won't melt, stretch or brown, and it usually lacks that characteristic tangy, savoury flavour that makes cheese quite simply delicious. W …
Bioscience firms Novozymes and Chr. Hansen to merge in biggest-ever Danish deal
Biotechnology companies Novozymes and Chr. Hansen agreed to combine in what will be the biggest ever merger between two Danish companies The merger, announced in a joint statement Monday, will see the …
Vow raises $49.2M to expand cultivated meat production
Dive Brief: Cultivated meat maker Vow closed a $49.2 million Series A round, the largest to date for any company in the space. The round was co-led by Blackbird and Prosperity7 Ventures. Other partici …
By 2024, the World's Largest Food Service Provider Will No Longer Use Gestation Crates
Expected to be eliminated before the end of next year, Compass Group, the world’s largest food service provider, says it will phase out the use of gestation crates for pigs in its U.S. supply chain. C …
Tracking sustainable food and beverage packaging innovation
As sustainability has come into greater focus in the food and beverage industry, CPGs are tackling the significant carbon footprint accrued from product packaging. The amount of plastic waste balloone …
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