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Climate shifts European food production

Climate change is unlikely to pose a direct threat to Europe’s food supply in the coming decades. However, it is changing where food is produced. While agricultural regions in Southern Europe are increasingly facing heat..

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“I’m arguing for large-scale waste stream efforts”

08 May 2018

We have to end the linear model in the meat supply chain, where everything is centred on efficiency and intensity. That is the opinion of WUR researcher Toine Timmermans. In his opinion, we should import less soya and ut...

Verduurzaming verpakkingen Plus

09 April 2018

PLUS gaat alle verpakkingen in 2018 toetsen om de milieu-impact van consumentenverpakkingen van huismerkproducten aanmerkelijk terug te dringen. De supermarktorganisatie heeft haar verpakkingsbeleid opgesteld met input v...

Markt voor vleesvervangers wint snel terrein

09 April 2018

Vlees staat in het middelpunt van een maatschappelijk debat dat invloed heeft op het consumentengedrag en op bedrijven in de foodsector. De Nederlandse consument wordt in zijn consumptie sterk beïnvloed door toenemende z...

Reducing the climate impact of meat consumption

09 April 2018

Making the global food supply more sustainable is a major challenge. The agri-food system has to meet an ever-increasing demand due to the growing world population. Furthermore, there is a new demand for non-food product...

Seaweed products conquer the market

09 April 2018

A pasta base, a seasoning in butter, or a jelly for desserts: the possibilities for seaweed extend far beyond just sushi. Its nutritional value also makes the crop a suitable meat substitute. But how easy is it to proces...

Food and the circular economy

09 April 2018

Food is responsible for 20-30% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions according to the RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment). In order to bring the greenhouse gas emissions of the food production...

Fred van de Velde: “There needs to be more plant-based protein”

09 April 2018

In order to provide all the people in the world with food in the future, it is necessary that they obtain a large portion of the proteins that they consume, from plant sources. Fred van Velde leads the research that NIZO...

100% recyclable plastic packaging

05 March 2018

In order to encourage a change in the worldwide stream of plastic packaging materials, Unilever has set the goal to ensure that all their plastic packaging is fully reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025. They are ...

Monitor food safety, even for sustainable packaging

05 March 2018

Organic chicken fillets packaged in plastic film: that does not seem like a sustainable combination. Plastic has a bad reputation when it concerns the environment, especially when the plastic soup poses a significant thr...

Food waste and transparency are influencing the packaging industry

05 March 2018

Bioplastics, storytelling, and the reduction of food waste are the terms that arise when experts from the packaging industry discuss current developments and innovations in their sector.  It is clear that there i...

Roland ten Klooster: Becoming more sustainable by taking small steps

05 March 2018

Roland ten Klooster is a packaging consultant and professor by special appointment of Packaging Design and Management. When he was studying industrial design in the 1980s, food packaging design in the Netherlands was a s...

De hei op met je sustainable development goals

06 February 2018

Verduurzaming heeft allang wortel geschoten in de foodsector. De redenen waarom bedrijven zich inzetten voor dierenwelzijn, suikerreductie of een eerlijke prijs voor de cacaoboer verschillen echter sterk. Dit varieert va...

Garnalensector krijgt MSC-keurmerk voor visserij

11 December 2017

Op dinsdag 12 december kreeg de Duitse, Deense en Nederlandse garnalensector het MSC-keurmerk uitgereikt. Dit gebeurde tijdens de Landbouw- en Visserijraad in Brussel in aanwezigheid van Camiel Derichs, Europees Directeu...

Biodegradable meat packaging

10 October 2017

From mid-October, all the organic meat in the Coop supermarkets in the Netherlands will be packaged in a material that can be disposed of as garden waste. Wim van den Burg, Category Manager Fresh at Coop: “In collaborati...

More sustainable protein production

11 September 2017

Proteins obtained from potatoes, blood plasma and peas retain their functionality even in a less pure form. In fact, sometimes that can even improve the functionality. These are the conclusions of researchers from Wageni...