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GNT has been ranked among the top 1% of companies in the food manufacturing industry for sustainability performance. EcoVadis, a leading global provider of business sustainability ratings, has awarded the EXBERRY® color supplier a Platinum medal.
Read ReleaseCSM Ingredients group announces the validation of the carbon footprint of Egg ’n Easy, its egg reduction solution for bakery applications, confirming a substantially lower environmental impact compared to conventional liquid egg.
Read ReleaseCSM Ingredients Group, a Nexture company comprising CSM Ingredients and HIFOOD, has released its fourth Sustainability Report, confirming steady progress and announcing new strategic targets.
Read ReleaseThe carbon footprint of BioCraft’s animal cell-cultured pet food ingredient is one-twelfth that of beef byproducts commonly used in pet foods
Read ReleaseFor the first time, agricultural innovation may align with both the economics of venture capital and the urgency of supply disruption
Read ArticleGNT has passed the halfway mark in its mission to reduce carbon intensity at its EXBERRY color factories by 50% over the course of the current decade. Based on volume of product sold, GNT cut carbon emissions at its production sites in the Netherlands, Germany, and United States by 26% between 2020 and 2024.
Read ReleaseFinnish biotech company Enifer has released the results of its latest Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), determining the Carbon Footprint (CFP) of its proprietary mycoprotein ingredient, PEKILO®Pet. The study reinforces Enifer’s commitment to sustainability, revealing that PEKILO®Pet has an impressively low CFP, significantly lower than many common pet food ingredients.
Read ReleaseGNT has earned its first EcoVadis gold medal for environmental and ethical activities, ranking the company among the top 3% in the food manufacturing industry.
Read ReleaseFEASTS is a groundbreaking, collaborative research programme funded by the EU, with the goal to deliver a comprehensive, unbiased knowledge base about cultivated meat and seafood, and their place in the food system.
Read ReleaseSynonym, the data-driven infrastructure development, and management platform for the bioeconomy, today announces the integration of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) calculations into its next-gen techno-economic calculator, Scaler.
Read ReleaseWhat options are on the food-tech menu for achieving long-term protein security? Cell culture, plants, microorganisms, algae, and fungi may all have roles to play. But from a sustainability and resilience perspective, is there a clear winner?
Read ArticleNew research shows degree of climate benefits depend on extent consumers are willing to shift diets, structure of meat industry, and livestock industry
Read ReleaseOpen to undergraduate and graduate students from around the world, the Student Essay Contest supports emerging thought leadership and excellence in communication around the world's most complex food system challenges. Submissions due September 24.
Read ReleaseTo address the potential impact to the global food system from the twin effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change, government officials and top-level executives from the Asia Pacific region will be attending the Global Food Security & Sustainability Virtual Summit 2021 on 17 September 2021.
Read Release“Many other industries use a linear model — take, make, use, and dispose — which is clearly unsustainable. Once a supply chain is established,” says New Harvest Research Fellow Dawne Skinner, “it is essentially locked in because it is too costly to reconfigure. Given that the cell-based industry is nascent, we are in the stage of initiating a new supply chain. My research aims to figure out how we can start this supply chain off on the right foot.”
Read ArticleIt’s a sick and tragic sight. Across the US, dairy producers are currently dumping tens of thousands of gallons of milk into fields and lagoons, as demand continues to plummet. It makes me think about the country’s more than 9 million dairy cows, forced to live out their highly unnatural lives, in dark, cramped milk-making prisons, often sick and in pain — just to keep pumping out a useless commodity. The same could be said of the US meat industry, which slaughters 9.59 billion land animals a year. To make matters worse, President Trump ordered slaughterhouses to stay open despite the clear danger to public health. This is something we can fix.
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