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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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Key task: ensuring that the right agriculture is in the right place

11 September 2017

Earlier this year Prof. Dr. Ir. Rudy Rabbinge won the Rachel Carson prize, which is awarded once every five years by VVM, a Dutch network of environmental professionals. From 2001 to 2011, Rudy Rabbinge was a professor a...

Westfort proud of positive response

15 August 2017

In 2016, Westfort Vleesproducten, member of the Netherlands’ Central Organisation for the Meat Sector (COV), welcomed hundreds of visitors to its new slaughterhouse in IJsselstein (Utrecht). Optimum transparency In...

Jan van As: Pioneer in innovation and sustainability

13 June 2017

What started more than 60 years ago as a stall on Amsterdam’s Albert Cuyp market has grown into an impressive business. The company called Versvishandel Jan van As handles over 4,000 tons of fresh fish each year. Sustain...

Winnaar Jaarprijs Goede Voeding 2017

11 April 2017

Albert Heijn/Koninklijke Vezet heeft met de producten Courgette-spaghetti, Bloemkoolrijst en Broccolirijst de Jaarprijs Goede Voeding 2017 gewonnen. Het product kreeg zowel de meeste stemmen van de publieksjury als van d...

From edible paper to marketing tool

11 April 2017

The Dutch village of Oostzaan is home to the world’s only factory that produces edible wafer paper in both sheet and roll form. The product is sold all over the world under the name of Primus Wafer Paper. Thanks to moder...

Innovating to stay ahead

11 April 2017

Aalt Dijkhuizen has been a figurehead for the Dutch agri-food sector at home and abroad for many years. He has been chair of the Top Team Agri & Food since 2014, and on 1 April of this year the Top Team also named hi...

Omission of best-before date

11 April 2017

Waste of food products with a long shelf life, such as rice, pasta, coffee and soup, is reduced by 12 percent if no best-before date is indicated on the packaging. If the best-before date is omitted in combination with t...

Commodity prices show upward trend

11 April 2017

There has been strong variation in the trends for commodity prices over the past three months. Prices for energy (oil, gas) fell steeply, while the prices for agricultural raw materials (wheat, coffee, corn) and metals (...

Evides industriewater, uw waterpartner

06 March 2017

Water is een essentieel onderdeel van veel producten en processen. Evides Industriewater maakt betrouwbaar proceswater voor de voedingsindustrie. Of het nu gaat om water dat wordt gebruikt voor het wassen en transportere...

Join the challenge against climate change

06 March 2017

During Biofach – Europe’s largest trade show dedicated to organic food – Wessanen launched the ‘Organic food against climate change’ challenge. Aimed at having a positive impact on the global food system and climate chan...

Need for flexibility and durable quality

06 March 2017

Thanks to the economic upswing, suppliers of packaging and labelling machines for the Dutch food processing industry have the wind at their back. However, that doesn’t mean that customers are so eager to spend money that...

Brilliant business models in food

07 February 2017

Food will be one of society’s biggest challenges in the future. There are several aspects to that challenge; on the one hand the aim is to produce healthy and sustainable food, and on the other the challenge lies in keep...

COV launches Future Vision for the Meat Sector

07 February 2017

The Netherlands’ Central Organisation for the Meat Sector (COV) presented its vision of the future at the end of December 2016. The organisation is keen for Dutch society to once again take pride in a sector that is lead...

A sustainable relationship

07 February 2017

In the Netherlands, ‘doing business sustainably’ is usually synonymous with ‘corporate social responsibility (CSR)’ which has nowadays become the essential standard for businesses in 2017. MVO Nederland, the Dutch CSR...

Ten million kilos of tomatoes thanks to geothermal heat

07 February 2017

The company Duijvestijn Tomaten in Pijnacker does business as sustainably as possible, such as by using geothermal energy to heat its greenhouses. Director Ted Duijvestijn explains how this innovation came about. “Ene...