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Soil holds the promise of capturing greenhouse-gas emissions to help slow global warming. Companies are now working to measure how soil stores carbon as they encourage farming techniques that reduce e ...

SAUDI ARABIA – Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones (Modon) has several agreements and memorandums of understanding (MoUs) that will facilitate billions of dollars being invested ...

DUBAI – February 22, 2023: KAOUN International and dmg events, organisers of THE SAUDI FOOD SHOW announced today that the 2023 launch edition has sold out this week during GULFOOD, four months before ...

DUBAI – February 21, 2023: As the 28th edition of the world’s largest Gulfood goes even larger and greener this year, the organiser Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) announces to the hundreds of thousan ...

BANGKOK – February 16, 2023 – Thai Union, with Asian-inspired plant-based propositions such as the shrimp dumpling, is now attracting global interest. For example, the world's first plant-based shrimp ...

UAE, February 15, 2023: GMG, a global well-being company retailing, distributing, and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and homegrown brands across sport, food, and health sectors, to ...

Turkish chefs Nusret “Salt Bae” Gokce and Burak “Czn Burak” Ozdemir, both of whom have restaurants in the UAE, have been vocal about their support for their country.   Gokce has deployed mobile kitche ...

On Monday, 6 February, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Türkiye and Syria. The quake is the worst tragedy to hit earthquake-prone Türkiye in 84 years, claiming at least 24,000 lives and leaving many ...

In November 2022, La Lorraine Bakery Group officially opened their new plant in Abu Dhabi. To support the ambitious growth plans in the Middle East region in the coming years, LLBG invested in local p ...

New agritech solutions are revolutionising the industry and tackling issues from food security to climate change. UK companies are leading the way the agritech and agrifood sector has grown in importa ...

Cultured meat. Cultivated meat. Lab-grown meat. Cell-based meat. Whatever you call it, the newest addition to alternative protein is having a bit of a moment. Over the past few months, Singapore’s gov ...

For many people, a new year means a new diet and that’s especially true for everyone who signed up for this year’s Veganuary. The month-long initiative to try a plant-based diet in January saw a recor ...

Singaporean foodtech TiNDLE Foods has launched a line of new plant-based chicken products in 2,200 stores across Germany in a collaboration with the country’s largest retailer EDEKA Group, as well as ...

Mortadella, the flamingo-coloured lunch meat, has been made in Bologna since the 14th century. On first glance it’s slightly sad-looking – all flabby edges and globs of white fat. In a sandwich, howev ...

AI startup The Live Green Co., which has developed a platform dubbed ‘Charaka’, used to discover plant-based replacements for animal ingredients, synthetics, and highly processed ingredients has unvei ...

Emerging World, the sole importer of PRAN-RFL Group’s products in the Middle East region, has signed a land lease agreement with KEZAD Group for the establishment of a new manufacturing plant. The PRA ...

Beef is a serious business in South Korea: local butchers typically identify 120 different cuts (as opposed to the western 20 or 30) that run from the tenderloin to obscure parts of the tail. Hanwoo b ...

With the climate crisis climbing to the top of the global agenda, more people are beginning to take notice of the connection between our consumption choices and the carbon footprint it leaves behind. ...

DUBAI – January 18, 2023: Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) has announced the largest annual global food and beverage sourcing event in the world, Gulfood, will take place from 20-24 February 2023. Brin ...

Hilton has saved close to 9,000 tonnes of Co2 emissions from entering the atmosphere through its use of local produce across its hotel kitchens. Supercharged by a partnership with Fresh on Table, 30 h ...

Premium products for premium markets   It is the job of organisations such as Scottish Development International (SDI), Scotland’s international trade and investment agency, to support our companies a ...

The Amaterasu Railway is a tiny sightseeing train that takes visitors on a 30-minute ride and showcases some beautiful landmarks in the Miyazaki Prefecture. (A highlight includes Japan's highest train ...

Climate labels on fast-food menus can help steer people in the US away from ordering beef — the food with the worst impact on the climate —  and towards meals that are better for the planet, according ...

Food inflation is one of the most significant topics as 2023 gets underway, underscored by the latest data from the UK, which reveals annual growth of Britain’s food prices hit 13.3% in December, the ...

Before he took his company public, Tattooed Chef CEO Salvatore “Sam” Galletti told investors his goal was “providing great-tasting plant-based products to the growing group of consumers who seek to ad ...

IFFCO Group has announced the launch of THRYVE, claimed to be the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC’s) first 100% plant-based meat venture.   IFFCO is an international UAE-based group that manufactures an ...

Plant-based cuisine has seen a dramatic increase in popularity worldwide over the past decade, especially among health-conscious consumers. Therefore, the global restaurant industry has begun includin ...

Those Vegan Cowboys, the spinoff brand from the founders of the Dutch plant-based meat brand Vegetarian Butcher, has launched its first precision fermentation cheese.   Jaap Korteweg and Niko Koffeman ...

In a two-week experiment, BBC Future tracked emissions from a vegan, vegetarian and omnivorous diet – and found some thought-provoking ways to lower emissions from our food.   One of the most impactfu ...

Tell us a little about your journey and how you got involved in the food industry.   I was working in the F&B industry before I started Common Farms. I saw the problems coming from food importations: ...

More than enough food is produced to feed all of the 8 billion people currently alive on the planet, yet after a decade of steady decline hunger is back on the rise, affecting 10% of the global popula ...

You may choose to go vegan for your health, the planet, or the billions of animals slaughtered each year for food. They’re all good reasons to move meat and dairy off of your plate for Veganuary and m ...

San Diego, California, was once known as the “Tuna Capital of the World.” Throughout much of the 20th century, thousands of workers caught cheap albacore tuna off the coast and packed it in canneries ...

A cream-colored scoop of ugali (oo-gali) maize porridge sits in my plate— a round, stiff ball— its circumference saturated by a colorful mélange of greens and tomatoes, and a perfect pink snapper, sta ...

No farmers. No food. No future. That is the saying that reminds us to value not just where our food comes from, but the farmers that grow it for us. While much of the agtech discussions these days foc ...

A UAE environmental task force has launched a drive to cut food waste in dozens of schools across the country.   The Waste-free Schools campaign aims to educate pupils and staff on the steps they can ...

Restaurants, grocers, farmers and food companies are increasingly turning to chemistry and physics to tackle the problem of food waste.   Some are testing spray-on peels or chemically-enhanced sachets ...

Egyptian procurement platform for hotels, restaurants and catering (HoReCa) businesses, Suplyd, has raised $1.6m in pre-seed funding to expand beyond Cairo and scale its technology    The pre-seed rou ...

Kellogg plans to split the company into three separate, publicly traded businesses, the CPG said in a statement. The separation is expected to be completed by the end of 2023. The company will spin of ...

CHICAGO —November and December are the months flavor companies predict what tastes will be trending during the upcoming year. Many of this year’s projections are directed toward consumers who are movi ...

A new food hall concept from the company behind Ikea spotlights local, plant-based cuisine with a focus on regenerative agriculture.   Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea has not been shy about its su ...

The nutri-tech start-up Novella is taking a page from cell-based meat production and growing botanical ingredients without the whole plant.   Israel-based Novella says it’s growing plants in bioreacto ...

For refrigerators across America, the passing of Thanksgiving promises a major purge. The good stuff is the first to go: the mashed potatoes, the buttery remains of stuffing, breakfast-worthy cold pie ...

Food giant PepsiCo raised some eyebrows last year when it announced it was starting a virtual restaurant.   The one-month popup Pep’s Place, launched in partnership with Famous Dave’s, had a beverage- ...

RIYADH: Nestle will invest $1.86 billion in Saudi Arabia over the next decade, a tweet released by the Kingdom's Ministry of Investment's official account announced on Wednesday.    In a move which al ...

THE WORD “PROCESSED” has become something of a slur.   Say “processed food” and most of us picture unhealthy, cheap junk. Fresh food straight from the garden or the field is good. Once we’ve put it th ...

The United Arab Emirates food and beverages group Agthia has completed the acquisition of a 60% stake in Abu Auf, which specializes in the manufacture and sale of coffee products and healthy snacks in ...

Ever wondered what a Ghaf tree would taste like?   Well, we didn’t really think about it either. But in honour of UAE National Day, homegrown juice brand Barakat has introduced its all-new Ghaf range, ...

Moritz Stefaner has long been obsessed with food. As a designer, he has even used meals to visualize data about everything from ethnic diversity to scientific funding. So when he encountered an AI tha ...

In Heinz’s squeezable upside-down ketchup bottle, the plastic cap is designed to dispense a standard blob of sauce without spilling. It works. But it can’t easily be recycled, so the Kraft Heinz Compa ...

Three UAE start-ups focused on solving hunger and food waste problems have made it to the final round of FoodTech Challenge.   Food ATM, a company that helps to provide food to people on lower incomes ...

Alternative meat, seafood and dairy products are all the rage in startup land, with countless companies raising bucketloads of cash and showcasing their first products throughout 2022.   There are two ...

Australia’s first cell-based milk startup, Me&, says it is developing cell-based breast milk just like a human mother would.   Me&’s cellular and molecular technology captures the inbuilt program in b ...

The Cove water bottle is a thin, sturdy cylinder, eggshell-white with a matching lid. It feels familiar. “If someone gave that to you,” offered Alex Totterman, Cove’s founder and chief executive, “you ...

For decades, astronauts have been eating dehydrated or liquefied food that leaves a foul taste in the mouth.   Food has to be prepared in that way because it needs to have a longer shelf life, and com ...

Saudi Arabia-based SaaS startup Order, has raised $1 million in a pre-Seed funding round, led by several angel investors. Founded in 2020 by Faisal AlAnazi and Essam Mohamed, Order provides technical ...

Food import costs globally are projected to reach $1.94 trillion this year and will affect some of the most economically vulnerable countries, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.   ...

A sustainable alternative to palm oil can’t come soon enough. C16 Biosciences says it’s ready to make it happen with its first commercial product line launching next year.   C16 Biosciences, the Bill ...

Shares of Tyson Foods dipped Wednesday after Bank of America downgraded its outlook for the meat processing giant, worsening an already no good, very bad week for its new finance chief who was arreste ...

Thanks to innovative plant-based meat brands like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, gone are the days of cardboard-like veggie burgers. And with global partnerships with fast-food restaurants like Bur ...

Without the use of water, soil or fertilisers, vertical fields of “red gold” have been produced in Sharjah as preparations are made for the UAE's first saffron harvest. Agricultural technology firm Ve ...

The food and beverage giant hopes practices such as using cover crops can help it meet its goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2040, said Rob Meyers, vice president of global sustainability. Pepsi ...

Ukraine said its exports of agricultural products have recovered to around prewar levels, a revival that has helped ease pressure on global food prices and offers a bright spot in Kyiv’s fight against ...

Dive Brief: Mondelēz International will spend an additional $600 million by 2030 on its Cocoa Life program. The initiative, which started in 2012, addresses environmental and human rights challenges a ...

In the epic 1967 film The Graduate, the young lead character Ben played by Dustin Hoffman is given advice about his future by Mr. McGuire – “One word. Plastics.” Indeed, plastics have fulfilled a vast ...

Liran Akavia, founder and chief operating officer of Israel-based tech firm Seebo, offers this simple piece of advice to food companies regarding how artificial intelligence (AI) can make their plants ...

The company will invest in localising the halal production industry in Saudi Arabia   The Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced the launch of the Halal Products Development Company (HPDC) on Monday. ...

Alternative dairy maker Change Foods has signed an agreement with the KEZAD Group to design the first-of-its-kind commercial manufacturing plant in the UAE, helping to solve one of the industry’s bigg ...

Stellar Pizza, a mobile pizza restaurant powered by robots, has secured $16.5 million in a Series A funding round, led by rapper Jay-Z’s venture capital firm, Marcy Venture Partners.  Previous fundrai ...

Russia’s war in Ukraine has exacerbated food shortages—already worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic—and shed light on global agriculture’s massive nutrient and energy needs. Most fertilizers are made fro ...

The challenge of sustainably feeding a world of 10 billion people is going to require a lot of solutions. Entrepreneurs and innovators all over the globe are working hard to come up with answers. And ...

It is estimated that each year 80 billion pounds of food is wasted in the US. The largest share of that, 43%, is at consumers’ homes. Nearly as much (40%) is at the retail level (restaurants, food ser ...

Ruramiso Mashumba, the founder of Mnandi Africa, advocates and teaches women about the gains that are possible in the agricultural sector through her initiative.   With nearly a decade of farming expe ...

Saudi Arabian dairy giant Almarai has posted net profits reaching $123.19 million ( SAR 463.172 million) in the third quarter of 2022, marking a 13.2% increase from the $108.8 million (SAR 409 million ...

All the world’s inflation woes are melting into a stick of butter.   Lower milk production on U.S. dairy farms and labor shortages for processing plants have weighed on butter output for months, leavi ...

Dive Brief: Mars has debuted candy jars made with 15% recycled plastic — for M&M’s, Starburst and Skittles bulk products — in collaboration with packaging manufacturer Berry, which will launch in Octo ...

Most people have experienced a form of “food poisoning” at some point in their lives. When salmonella is the cause, typical symptoms include diarrhea, stomach cramps, and fever, which resolve themselv ...

LBX Food Robotics (formerly known as LeBread Xpress) announced today they have partnered with The Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI) Foundation to install bread-dispensing robot ...

Set in south-central Manila, Toyo Eatery was announced as the winner of the Flor de Caña Sustainable Restaurant Award at Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2023. Cheryl Tiu meets the owners to discuss how the ...

The impact of climate change – whether that’s floods, droughts, extreme heat or cold – is ravaging crops and threatening our food supply. Here are 15 food crops that are facing shortages and uncertain ...

 What is the agrifood system? Corinna Hawkes: The agrifood system is everything that is connected to food and agriculture. What we eat as well as the way that food is sold, distributed and processed. ...

Poems, essays, and even books – is there anything the open AI platform ChatGPT can't handle? These new AI developments have inspired researchers at TU Delft and the Swiss technical university EPFL to ...

Whole Foods Market forecasted a trend of more companies putting the “plant” back in plant-based products, the grocer announced earlier this month in their 2024 predictions report.  With a focus on pro ...

Developing cutting-edge technology—such as cleantech and deep tech—can be long and complex, requiring a lot of testing and validation, not just of the product but also of the market. How the technolog ...

KEY FACTS   Increasing temperatures could boost average inflation by as much as 1.2 percentage points every year until 2035, warned researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research a ...

Consumers might be warming up to the idea of technology playing a role in what they eat and drink, but startups and CPG companies still have a ways to go before they see the potential of what food tec ...

SWITZERLAND – Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate, Nestlé, plans to invest over CHF 100 million (US$107 million) by 2030 in low-carbon logistics for its three international wate ...

These days, artificial intelligence is everywhere. Whether it's generating a deepfake, driving a car, or waxing poetic on which fast food restaurant has the best burger, it's hard to avoid the applica ...

From the increasing impact of climate change to geopolitical unrest, the food and beverage industry across Europe has been under immense strain in recent years. However, a recent report from Oghma Par ...