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Packaging: sustainable versus political gain

The European Commission is 'through with it': the EU's packaging waste policy has failed. That is why the EU is intervening with new legislation. Which is SO detailed that it is going to have a lot of impact on the food ..

Organic farming pays off more often than you think

24 October 2022

Between 2018-2020, organic farmers and gardeners were able to recoup the additional costs of organic production through higher market prices in most cases, except for milk. However, consumers' willingness to pay for orga...

The Top Ten Food Trends of 2023

20 October 2022

'Redefining Value' heads Innova Market Insights’ Top Ten Trends for 2023, as consumers adapt to a global cost-of-living crisis in the face of economic and political volatility. With budgets stretched and supplies under s...

Cultivated meat production Mosa Meat to new level

19 October 2022

Mosa Meat is celebrating taking the next step in the scaling up of their facilities for the production of cultivated beef. The company is expanding to a total of 7,340 m2 facilities (77,000 sq ft.), making it the largest...

Dutch digital sector must be more sustainable

19 October 2022

18 October 2022, the National Coalition for Sustainable Digitalisation (NCDD) presented a manifesto to Minister Adriaanse of Economic Affairs and Climate. The coalition calls on the government for a comprehensive approac...

Vragenuurtje BBB: een aanrader

18 October 2022

Caroline van de Plas, Henk Vermeer en Femke Wiersma beantwoorden in een online webinar 140 vragen over het rapport Remkes en de reactie van het kabinet. Een interessant uurtje vraag & antwoord. Duidelijk, helder en z...

Foodvalley helps frontrunners in food transition

17 October 2022

Every intermediate step in the transition to a different food system is one, is the motto at Foodvalley. Thanks in part to an impressive network and the ability to join forces across sectors, CEO Marjolein Brasz and her ...

Save money with wall panels from Sealwise

17 October 2022

Jackit is a renovation and sealant company specialising in the food industry. The exclusive Sealwise WCB panel material they use for walls, corners and ceilings is thoroughly antibacterial as well as antiviral. It is als...

Upcycling is one of the green innovation trends of 2022

12 October 2022

This year ClimateLaunchpad, the global green business competition, sees a remarkable number of start-ups looking for 'system solutions', ways to reuse resources. The competition has seen a striking number of entries with...

Eating plant-based: We want to, but we don't

11 October 2022

Dutch people are open to replacing dairy, meat and eggs with plant-based alternatives, but their behaviour does not always show it. So in this case too, wanting is not automatically doing, according to the Agrifood Monit...

Pieter Pot wants more packaging-free products

03 October 2022

Pieter Pot is running a campaign during October 2022 to invite consumers as well as major players in the food industry to commit more to packaging-free products. Pieter Pot has been campaigning against the use of single-...

Startup launches Coffee without coffee beans

01 October 2022

Dutch startup Northern Wonder launched Coffee Free Coffee on Tuesday 27 September 2022. This new product has the taste and smell of coffee, contains caffeine and is brewed the same way, but contains only non-tropical ing...

ENOUGH produces non-animal protein in new plant

29 September 2022

ENOUGH will open a production facility in Sas van Gent, Zeeland, from October, adding additional capacity to the protein market. One year after construction of the plant began, the Glasgow-based food technology company (...

Sunt makes baked donuts from rescued bananas

29 September 2022

Sunt is the first company worldwide to introduce baked donuts on a large scale and shows that even the traditional donut -which originated from the Dutch oliebol- can and must be a lot more sustainable and responsible. T...

Brave New Food takes new step towards sustainable food

27 September 2022

Brave New Food is taking a new step in the quest for more healthy and sustainable food products. With the Startup Challenge 2022, the company is calling on their network of both innovative startups and well-established c...

WUR: Share of sustainable food purchases increases