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'Outsize opportunity': How investors could help slash global food sector emissions and unlock a $1.5tr economic boost

Business Green

The shift towards more sustainable diets, farming, and food supply chains therefore offers a major investment opportunity for financial firms, according to the think tank. The food sector is also facing major transition risks as diets and technologies shift in support of net zero goals.

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Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation and Greentown Labs Announce the KAITEKI Challenge Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

This approach can increase return on investment for the entire value chain, while reducing organic waste and plastics pollution. Paragon Pure (New Jersey, United States) creates ingredients to replace palm oils while delivering desirable appearance, melting performance, flavor, and mouthfeel of meat analog products.

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Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet

GreenBiz

Based on their findings, they might recommend chemical inputs or physical measures farmers can take such as adding tiles to the field to help with drainage, planting cover crops or adding a new crop to rotation to reduce depletion of certain nutrients from the soil to improve its resiliency. . percent year over year.

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'Farming is going to have to change': NFU President Minette Batters on net zero, changing diets, and Brexit

Business Green

While she believes delivering net zero farming by 2040 would be a "phenomenal achievement", she also sees it as a feasible goal that would hugely benefit the industry, as well as the UK as a whole, due in part to farming's potential to provide climate resilience and carbon capture services. Meat alternatives and plant-based proteins.

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Can animal-based agriculture ever be truly sustainable?

Business Green

A recent survey from Morgan Stanley found that 85 per cent of individual US investors are interested in sustainable investing , while by next year, consumers are projected to spend $150bn on sustainable products. Pressure is mounting and firms are being judged on how they respond," she adds.

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'Investors are watching closely': How Covid-19 is accelerating the plant based 'meat' trend

Business Green

Venture investments in plant-based proteins have already reached $1.1bn in 2020, double that of the whole of last year. The global alternative protein market is expected to grow to $17.9bn by 2025. In total, the research finds, seven of these 15 retailers now sell, or plan to sell, plant-based meat alternatives.

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Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet

AGreenLiving

Based on their findings, they might recommend chemical inputs or physical measures farmers can take such as adding tiles to the field to help with drainage, planting cover crops or adding a new crop to rotation to reduce depletion of certain nutrients from the soil to improve its resiliency. percent year over year.

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