Sustainability

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..

Eiwitpartnerschap Nestlé en Corbion

07 November 2019

Nestlé is een partnerschap aangegaan met Corbion voor de ontwikkeling van de volgende generatie microalgabestanddelen, waardoor het bedrijf duurzame, smakelijke en voedzame plantaardige producten kan leveren. Micro-al...

80% plastic reduction

05 November 2019

Vegan Masters has recently started to 'veganise' convenience food. From pizza to burgers and from stew to curry, they make delicious vegan varieties. The company now has 30 ultra-fresh mainstream convenience food product...

More sustainability from recycling

05 November 2019

More environmental gains can be made from recycling, for example through an export tax or ban on plastic packaging waste to a number of countries. Increased producer responsibility can improve the recyclability of produc...

Concrete intention to increase meatprice

04 November 2019

TAPP Coalition reports that the Dutch accept a fair -higher- price for meat, if there is a good destination for the extra charge. Currently, 52% of the Dutch population agrees with the plan to reinvest a higher price in ...

Magic Box against food waste

29 October 2019

Consumers can buy a Magic Box from retailers with the app Too Good To Go. The Magic Box is full of food products that would have been thrown away. The buyers consume 90% of the content of the box, according to research b...

Recycling of packaging continues to rise

28 October 2019

Research by the Packaging Waste Fund shows that there was a further increase in the percentage of recycled packaging in 2018. Of the 3,120,000 tonnes, 2,478,000 tonnes were recycled. This results in a recycling percentag...

Smart barcode against food waste

24 October 2019

Wasteless, a young company that helps supermarkets keep food waste to a minimum, has entered into an effective partnership with GS1 to achieve its goal. They do this by means of smart GS1 barcodes. With this barcode, fre...

Launch fruit and vegetable market observatory

22 October 2019

Officially launched on 18 October with a kick-off meeting, the new fruit and vegetable market observatory will provide greater transparency and short-term analysis to a key sector for European agriculture. Fruit and vege...

New plan for carbon-neutral land sector

22 October 2019

Global agriculture and forestry could be carbon-neutral by 2040 and contribute 30% to the Paris targets of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C. This can be done through the conservation and planting of forests, sustainable...

More sustainable food sector through DNA testing

21 October 2019

In the Biosintrum in Friesland, the closing night of the very first Rabo Food Forward Track took place on Thursday 17 October. On this evening the two previously nominated cases were presented to the jury. The winning...

High-protein food of the future

21 October 2019

High-protein food of the future' is the vision of the Future Food Group that started at the beginning of October 2019. Future Food Group intends to be a leading party in the innovation and production of sustainable and e...

The Dutch go for a future without hunger

17 October 2019

Wednesday 16 October on World Food Day, the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BZ) launched the 'Netherlands Food Partnership' (NFP); a new movement that helps par...

BoerBurgerBeweging wants law Right to Agriculture

17 October 2019

The political party BoerBurgerBeweging wants the Netherlands to have a law on the Right to Agriculture. This law should better safeguard the livelihoods of farmers and horticulturists and protect farmers better. When BBB...

Active handling of fraud organic food

16 October 2019

In response to the answers to parliamentary questions on 7 October about fraud with organic and conventional meat, Bionext wants to discuss the follow-up of fraud. As a result of insufficient capacity at the NVWA, fraud ...

Suiker Unie will produce protein from leaves