Sustainability

Construction: Important considerations for food entrepreneurs

You want to expand or renovate. So, you decide to build! Once you’ve made that decision, questions start arising. What materials will you choose? Are they sustainable? How does this choice affect fire safety? What about ..

The food100 list of 2020

12 August 2020

Over the past few weeks, an independent professional jury has been busy assessing more than 300 applications for the food100 list. A list of established leaders and up-and-coming talent who are working daily for a better...

Team WUR scores with vision on food system in 2050

11 August 2020

Two researchers from Wageningen Imke de Boer and Evelien de Olde and their team are one of the ten finalists of the prestigious Food System Vision Prize. Their team comes up with a holistic vision of a healthy and circul...

Foodbytes: The new normal for the food system

06 August 2020

As we continue to see the world adjust to an ongoing pandemic, it’s clear that the outbreak of COVID-19 has created profound change in the global food system. While the outlook continues to fluctuate by the day, many asp...

Meat tax back on the menu

05 August 2020

We have been eating more meat since 2016, according to research and consultancy firm CE Delft. Despite information on the negative effects of meat consumption in various areas. According to CE Delft, price is still th...

LTO: Consumers do not yet pay for sustainability

04 August 2020

The existence of farmers and horticulturists is at risk because of the ever higher legal and regulatory requirements. If the government and customers want the agricultural sector to become even more sustainable, this is ...

40% of large food producers enter the vegetable market

30 July 2020

A four-year investor engagement with 25 giant food retailers and manufacturers, led by the FAIRR investor network, has found that two in five global food giants with combined annual revenues of $459 billion now have dedi...

KIDV launches The State of Sustainable Packaging

23 July 2020

The Knowledge Institute for Sustainable Packaging (KIDV) published The State of Sustainable Packaging on 23 July 2020. In this publication, the KIDV indicates how the international packaging world can ultimately achieve ...

New campaign: Let’s Talk About Pork From Europe

21 July 2020

Hoaxes have become one of the great social problems of recent years. To help combat them, the pork sectors of Spain, France and Portugal have joined together in a campaign that will tell the whole truth about the Europea...

Eating less meat doesn't just happen

21 July 2020

It is necessary to change ingrained everyday food routines in order to eat more sustainably and healthily, in the PBL study 'Changing food consumption' seven elements of policy have been elaborated to promote more sustai...

Healthy Food Manifesto drawn up

17 July 2020

On Thursday 16 July, a Healthy Food Manifesto was presented to election committees of political parties on behalf of dozens of organisations, including Transition Coalition Food, TAPP Coalition, Greenhouse Horticulture N...

Resumption of seaweed company Waddenwier

16 July 2020

Where it was previously known that Van Rijsselberghe had to stop his company Waddenwier, he still managed to realise a relaunch. Marc Van Rijsselberghe announced the news himself this week. "We are facing a serious salin...

Founding of Brightlands Future Farming Institute

14 July 2020

To contribute to technological innovation in the agri-food sector, Maastricht University (UM) is establishing a new research institute at Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo: the Brightlands Future Farming Institute (BFFI...

CBL aims to set up a Food Collective with farmers

13 July 2020

Since the government promulgated the cattle feed measure, various groups of farmers have carried out actions at supermarket distribution centres. Various interviews with campaigners have shown that they are very concerne...

New offensive against packaging waste

03 July 2020

State Secretary Van Veldhoven of Infrastructure and Water Management, together with producers, is launching a new offensive against packaging waste. She wrote this to the House of Representatives on Thursday 2 July. The ...

Ambition increase Sustainable Fruit & Vegetables Barometer