Fi Europe is a red-letter event for the European food sector. This year, COVID-19 means things will be a little different. But the need to share ideas and innovation – as well as networking and business opportunities – has ‘never been more important’.
French bakery La Panetière des Hameaux has developed a cookie recipe that up-cycles stale bread. FoodNavigator hears more about this innovative approach to food waste.
Plant-based ready meal company BOL Foods is joining the likes of Huel and Soylent in the meal replacement market with its newly launched Power Shakes. FoodNavigator catches up with founder Paul Brown to find out how his range sets itself apart in the...
One of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil’s (RSPO) objectives is to help tackle poverty in palm producing communities. But does certification help alleviate farmer poverty?
Where are the opportunities for new suppliers in retail? Category buyers at three of the UK’s biggest supermarkets talk ‘eye-catching’ innovation, burgeoning trends, and whether having an already established following matters.
Global investor network FIARR warns that high street brands like Nestlé and McDonald’s risk missing their climate targets due to scant progress to reduce emissions from meat and dairy suppliers. But the food giants tell FoodNavigator that partnership...
How do you reduce the carbon footprint of beef production efficiently both from an environmental and financial standpoint to offer supermarkets and consumers the products they demand? By doing 100 things 1% better, say producers.
The Agri-TechE REAP 2020 conference has heard the call for collaboration between international ag-tech innovators and producers to leverage ‘global scale’ to create ‘real change’ that will support the development of a more sustainable food system.
Nestlé announced this week that it has acquired a majority stake in UK meal kit service Mindful Chef. The news follows on the heels of a deal in the US to take control of recipe box supplier Freshly. What opportunities - and challenges - will Nestlé’s...
With European honey harvests down 40% in 2020, Copa and Cogeca warns ‘the survival of professional beekeepers is really threatened’ and calls on European regulators to increase controls on cheaper imports that, they say, are a food fraud risk.
As the first ingredient supplier to join the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) back in 2004, DuPont Nutrition and Biosciences has long worked to help transform the palm oil industry. As scrutiny of palm oil sourcing grows, FoodNavigator speaks...
Meat is a category besieged by accusations that animal production is unsustainable. But UK pork producer Pilgrim’s Pride Ltd would like to see the development of a more nuanced conversation, sustainability head Matt Dight explains as he details the company’s...
