Spanish nut supplier Importaco Group has signalled its intention to double its share of the food ingredients market by 2024. It will achieve this through a customer-centric approach that puts the future ‘nutsumer’ at the heart of innovation.
New technology developed at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland enables the use of pectin-containing agricultural waste, such as citrus peel and sugar beet pulp, as raw material for bio-based polyethylene furanoate (PEF) plastics for replacing...
Coca-Cola European Partners plans to become a Net Zero business by 2040: reducing GHG emissions; turning to sustainable packaging; and investing €250m in decarbonisation initiatives.
It is hoped British agriculture will be transformed by the ‘biggest farming shake-up in 50 years’. But there are fears that both Britain’s move to cut farmer subsidies as it leaves the EU Common Agricultural Policy, and the EU’s reform of the CAP, could...
A coalition of South American banana growers have warned that the price they receive from European retailers is unsustainable after it emerged Aldi will cut the amount it pays for the fruit next year.
Kerry Taste & Nutrition has released a white paper that provides snack producers with the most advanced research information to guide their development of protein bars.
The UK’s advertising watchdog has told maverick Scottish craft brewer BrewDog to rein in use of its ‘F**k you CO2’ tagline when advertising its new carbon negative status.
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.
Griffith Foods’ quest for 'purpose-driven' growth illustrates the health, nutrition and sustainability drive among ingredient suppliers as they pivot towards the demands of manufacturers and end consumers.
In a world where raging wildfires, battering hurricanes and unexpected derechos dominate the headlines, sustainability is becoming a top concern for consumers – and one that the independent research company HowGood can help food and beverage brands meet...
Suntory Group has made a series of commitments around plastic use, water conservation and climate impact. Yuko Koshiishi, Senior General Manager of the Corporate Sustainability Division, talks to FoodNavigator about why these are the ‘main sustainability...
Coca-Cola has unveiled the first-generation prototype of its paper bottle: saying it is convinced that paper packaging has a role to play in the future.
Juice and smoothie maker innocent is building a $250m carbon neutral production site – dubbed ‘the blender’ – at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. With the first bottles due to come off the lines in 2021, innocent says the project is a symbol...
Danone brand evian is introducing 100% rPET bottles to the UK this week; the latest in a series of recycled plastic commitments from PepsiCo’s Naked Smoothies, Nestlé’s Buxton bottled water, and Coca-Cola GB. We explore how the move to rPET is progressing...
The Sustainable Cocoa Initiative is a new multi-stakeholder dialogue that brings together representatives of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana – the two main cocoa producing countries accounting for 70% of global cocoa production – as well as representatives...
PepsiCo targets 100% renewable electricity across all company-owned and controlled operations by 2030; and across franchise and third-party operations by 2040.
Sustainable Rice Platform believes its new food label is the first in the world to focus on a dedicated rice production standard. FoodNavigator hears from SRP Executive Director, Wyn Ellis, to find out more.
A wildlife conservation expert has brought his passion for the environment to the sports nutrition industry with the UK’s first locally sourced cricket and plant-based sports nutrition brand Rebel Protein.
Sustainability had moved to the forefront of consumers’ minds in recent years – but has the coronavirus pandemic changed all that? Beverage brands innocent and SodaStream have faith that the progress of previous years has not been in vain.
The argument that plant-based foods are healthier and more sustainable than animal-based products has become increasingly common. However, experts warn that the ‘unintended adverse consequences’ of any push to eliminate meat, dairy, eggs and fish from...
With livestock ‘getting blamed for everything from cancer to climate change’, the British Meat Processors Association has launched a new website to promote the environmental benefits of eating beef and other animals.
Sustainability sells. This has given rise to scepticism among consumers that brands are ‘greenwashing’ their environmental claims. Radical transparency could be the cure.
The German Federal Government plans to pass a supply chain act by the beginning of 2021 that will create binding regulations requiring companies to adhere to human rights and environmental protections. The move has gained widespread support from NGOs...
Coca-Cola European Partners is introducing CanCollar - a paperboard packaging solution - for multipack cans in Spain. The move will avoid the use of 18 tonnes of plastic a year.
Current agricultural practices and the expansion of intensive agriculture into biodiverse hotspots globally are threatening the what is left of the world’s biodiversity. What action can the food industry take to slow biodiversity loss?
Food and beverage brands with ambitious sustainability goals to create more packaging with post-consumer materials face significant challenges, including supply shortages due to limitations of the fractured US recycling system, increased competition for...
If the global population adhered to the US or UK’s food based dietary guidelines, food-related emissions would exceed food-system limits for avoiding dangerous levels of climate change by more than three-fold, say researchers.
IOFI and IFRA, the industry bodies for the flavour and fragrance sector, have launched a new Sustainability Charter. The sectorial approach ‘establishes a framework, sets a bar and raises everybody’, representatives from the two organisations tell us.
Diageo will debut a 100% plastic-free, paper-based spirits bottle for Johnnie Walker in early 2021; while PepsiCo and Unilever plan to follow suit with their own brands
A large proportion of flexible plastic cheese packaging currently ends up in landfills across the UK, but now Cathedral City, a brand owned by Saputo Dairy UK, is working with TerraCycle to recycle flexible cheese packaging through the Cheese Packaging...
The Members of Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE), which represent the European flexible packaging industry, agreed to a joint vision on sustainability at FPE’s first virtual conference, held last month.
Animal sources of protein are more potent than vegan sources for stimulating muscle growth but their significant impact on climate change means plant sources will be key for future diets, researchers will be told later this week as part of an online physiology...
Working with the likes of Tesco and Albert Heijn, Spoon Guru uses its AI powered software to ease the path to purchase and transform food discovery. The company’s co-founder Markus Stripf tells FoodNavigator that the way people shop online is changing...
Chocolate and confectionery maker The Hershey Company reached a milestone in its CSR strategy in January when 100% of the cocoa it sources was certified sustainable. FoodNavigator speaks to the company’s director of global sustainability and social impact...
Lucozade Ribena Suntory (LRS) has invested £500,000 ($634,000 USD) to extend a 30-year partnership with researchers at Scotland’s James Hutton Institute to develop new varieties of climate-resilient blackcurrants.
US agri-food giant Cargill is looking to solutions such as mobile money, GPS mapping and digital data collection to improve transparency in its cocoa supply chains in Africa and elsewhere.
Plant-based products benefit from something of a health halo. However, the nutritional profile of these often ultra-processed foods is coming under increased scrutiny. FutureBridge forecasts four-up-and coming plant-based proteins that could disrupt the...
Danone natural mineral water brand evian has obtained global certification for becoming carbon neutral: the result of ‘years of ambitious reductions at every stage of the product life cycle’.
Food production must shift from ‘linear mass consumption’ to ‘a more circular economy’ to meet growing demand for food in a sustainable way, claims a report which will inform much of the EU’s upcoming ‘Farm to Fork strategy for a sustainable food system’.
Fairtrade International has announced sales of Fairtrade certified cocoa from Côte d’Ivoire in the fourth quarter of 2019 increased farmers’ earnings by approximately $15.1m compared to non-Fairtrade cocoa.
Coveris has announced it is investing €850k to switch to a carbon free source of energy at its facility in Egypt, as part of its corporate sustainability ambition.
Greenpeace has said that meat consumption in the European Union needs to drop by 71% by 2030 and by 81% by 2050. The NGO wants regulators to act – but could these aggressive targets alienate consumers and food makers alike?
Russian processor Cherkizovo Group has reported that it has improved the environmental performance of its production facilities following a significant investment in this area.
Nestlé has signed the European Plastics Pact, to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable and reduce its use of virgin plastics by one third by 2025.
