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Local food? A great idea (on paper)

Getting your groceries straight from a nearby farm, who wouldn’t want that? Less transport, fairer prices for farmers, shorter supply chains. Governments have been trying to promote it for years. Still, making local food..

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Marjolein Brasz - CEO Foodvalley

01 April 2023

By 2050, we want healthy, affordable, and delicious food. Sustainably produced. Of course, we won't reach that destination overnight. The current system is a result of decades, centuries of built up, the change will also...

Foodvalley up to the plate

01 April 2023

The aim is to get healthy, sustainable and efficiently produced food on our plates. Our experts identify promising opportunities at an early stage, with their sights set on 2050, but with application possibilities for to...

Foodvalley connects insect supply chain

01 April 2023

Insects can play an important role in the circular food system. To allow insects or insect-based foods to end up on the plate of the consumer more often, Foodvalley is setting the chain in motion with, for example, a wor...

Foodvalley Shared Facility Finder

01 April 2023

One of the important tools that Foodvalley NL uses is the Shared Facility Finder (SFF) on Foodleap. This platform allows organisations to find and share pilot and research facilities and equipment. These include kitchen ...

Foodvalley - international partnerships

01 April 2023

People around the world are working on themes similar to those of Foodvalley. It is crucial to identify what is relevant and initiate the right collaborations to accelerate and export concepts where appropriate. Paola...

Foodvalley - Join the journey

01 April 2023

Our mission: In 2050 the food system needs to offer food security to 10 billion people worldwide. Tasty, affordable, healthy and sustainable food, produced with respect for animals and our planet.  It is a major ...

ToekomstProef launched: sustainable food in healthcare

30 March 2023

The kick-off of ToekomstProef took place on 23 March 2023. This is an initiative of St. Food+Wellbeing and a number of strategic partners to make eating and drinking in care institutions not only better, but also measura...

Rabobank: Still plenty of challenges in food industry

30 March 2023

The food chain is struggling with increasing sustainability requirements, falling global market prices, rising costs, austerity-minded consumers and difficult price negotiations. Rabobank dwells on key economic developme...

Zero VAT fruit and vegetables unenforceable

30 March 2023

The plan to reduce VAT on fruit and vegetables from 9% to 0% is not only complicated, it will not help people to eat healthier. This is according to a study by SEO. The neutrality principle in VAT states that the gove...

Vow unveils world's first mammoth meatball

29 March 2023

The world's first meatball made from mammoth DNA has been unveiled at the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam. It is a scientific experiment by Australian cultured meat company Vow.  A team of international experts ...

NVWA: Information on allergens must improve

29 March 2023

Inspections by the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) have revealed that 6 in 10 businesses in retail, fresh food and catering do not properly inform customers about which allergens are present in th...

Test phase with smart shelf life indicator launched

28 March 2023

The NVWA and the Ministry of VWS are offering the Norwegian company Keep-It Technologies, in cooperation with a manufacturer, the opportunity to test a time and temperature indicator on food products for 24 months. This ...

Deposit on cans from 1 April 2023

28 March 2023

The first deposit can was handed in on 27 March 2023. This marks an important step towards the official start of the deposit system for cans as of 1 April. Cans with the deposit logo are now pouring in at supermarkets, c...

No large-scale food production in the sea for now

27 March 2023

There are high expectations for the production of food at sea, but the opportunities are limited, even with the latest technological options such as ecological engineering, argues theoretical biologist Jaap van der Meer ...

Food Cabinet receives B Corp certification

27 March 2023

For over a decade, Food Cabinet has focused on a sustainable, fair and healthy food system. This is why the organisation chooses to work for and with brands, businesses and organisations that share these ambitions. "We f...