GFI Europe calls for coordinated funding after UK government pledges to support sustainable proteins
Conrad AstleyGFI Europe is calling for earmarked funding to ensure the UK becomes a world leader in plant-based and cultivated meat.
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GFI calls for UK to become world leader in cultivated meat at parliamentary event
Conrad AstleyGFI Europe and Ivy Farm Technologies call for greater investment in cultivated meat research and a more collaborative regulatory process at an event in the UK Parliament.
Netherlands to make biggest ever public investment in cellular agriculture
Sophie ArmourThe Dutch government has announced a record €60 million of funding for cultivated meat and precision fermentation.
IPCC-Report: Pflanzenbasiertes und kultiviertes Fleisch können eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Halbierung der globalen Emissionen bis 2030 spielen
Ivo RzegottaDer IPCC-Report sagt, dass pflanzenbasiertes und kultiviertes Fleisch eine erhebliche Reduzierung der Emissionen verspricht.
IPCC report highlights role of sustainable proteins in adapting to climate change
Conrad AstleyWorld’s top climate scientists acknowledge the role plant-based and cultivated meat could play in future-proofing our food system.
Belgium urged to back down on ‘plant-based chicken’ ban
Conrad AstleyGFI Europe has joined other food sustainability NGOs to call on the Belgian government to drop plans to ban “meaty” names for plant-based products.
Our favourite moments from a breakthrough year
Emily Johnson2021 was a breakthrough year for plant-based foods, cultivated meat and fermentation.
A cow’s worth of protein every two minutes – how fermentation could feed millions
Sophie ArmourIt might get less attention than some of the latest plant-based and cultivated meat innovations – but its flexibility, low production costs and the sheer simplicity of its inputs mean fermentation could soon be feeding millions of people.
Food was absent from the COP26 agenda. It must be central to COP27
Alice RavenscroftThere is one sector that was completely absent from high level discussions, despite causing 21% of global emissions: animal agriculture.
UK government invests in cultivated meat commercialisation
Conrad AstleyThe UK government has invested £1 million to develop and commercialise stem cell lines, helping companies produce cultivated meat.