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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

Could innovations in plant-based alternatives, cultured meat, and edible insects play a part in China’s food future? Could China become a haven to advance meat alternative technology development? World’s Largest Meat Consumer. So what is the state of play in China’s diet transition?

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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

Could innovations in plant-based alternatives, cultured meat, and edible insects play a part in China’s food future? Could China become a haven to advance meat alternative technology development? World’s Largest Meat Consumer. So what is the state of play in China’s diet transition?

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

Greentown Labs

May 18, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) have selected six startups for the KAITEKI Challenge that are innovating in the areas of alternative proteins, plastics, and packaging. Somerville, Mass.,

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

Overall, businesses creating all sorts of meat alternatives raised $3.1 Alternative meat, dairy and egg products make up more than half of that, at $2.1 We want to offer people the best plant-based meat alternatives in terms of taste, texture, flavor and nutrition," Pohl said. "To

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Reducing Food System Emissions, One Bite At A Time

Energy Innovation

Emissions from farm to table to landfill Emissions are generated at every stage of the food system, from the production of food on farms to transport and refrigeration to processing and packaging to consumer dietary choices and, ultimately, to food waste. Seventy percent of total food system emissions come from land-use change.

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Sustainable consumption: Get ready for the next frontier in the race to zero

Business Green

Forecasting work carried out by the Climate Change Committee in 2019 on the UK's contribution to stopping global warming shows that 59 per cent of the changes the UK needs to make to achieve net zero rely not just on the large-scale transition to low-carbon technologies but also on wider human and societal behaviour change.

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Innovative Food: Startups Raise $206m to Meet Consumer Demand for Protein & Novel Ingredients

AFN Sustainable Protein

Though venture funding for consumer packaged goods generally is booming , with smaller companies gaining marketshare from the large food brands quickly, food and ingredients that truly buck against convention are still relatively slow to get investor attention compared to other categories of agrifood tech; the whole sector raised $4.4