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What keeps you up at night?
Climate and ecological emergency
Compared to farming animals, plant-based and cultivated meat can cut climate emissions by up to 92%, enabling people to keep eating the familiar foods they love without accelerating the climate crisis.
Antibiotic resistance
Whereas industrial animal agriculture is driving us to a public health crisis, plant-based and cultivated meat production are free of antibiotics and contaminants. These alternative proteins can help prevent the end of modern medicine.
Feeding the world’s growing population
One-third of Earth’s arable land is used for pasture or growing animal feed, yet feeding crops to animals instead of people is inefficient and unsustainable.
Plant-based and cultivated meat production drives down the price of grains while freeing up land, and enables countries with little land, or faced with climate instability, to produce more homegrown protein. These options can sustainably feed 10 billion people by 2050.
Pandemic risk
According to the United Nations’ Preventing the Next Pandemic report, “increasing human demand for animal protein” and “unsustainable agricultural intensification” are two of the biggest drivers of zoonotic disease.
Plant-based and cultivated meat involve no risk of causing the next pandemic because they can be made without farming animals.
With your help, we are putting alternative proteins centre stage as a solution to these global problems.
Why donate to GFI Europe?
Europe presents enormous opportunities to advance GFI’s mission: it is home to much of the world’s scientific and commercial talent, and is one of the biggest potential markets for alternative proteins. Europe also influences the world through trade, migration, diaspora communities and thought leadership. If the policy, regulatory and consumer environment for alternative proteins thrives in Europe, its positive impacts will reverberate across the world.
Effectiveness
We prioritise the highest-impact activities to undertake each year, so you know your donation is being spent in the most effective way.
Sector-wide influence
As a nonprofit, we are uniquely positioned to support the entire alternative protein space. By sharing our open-access research and knowledge freely, and connecting scientists, students and entrepreneurs, we advance the whole sector and bring closer the day when alternative proteins are the default choice. The sooner we get there, the better for people, the planet and animals.
Leverage
Increased funding for science is key to unlocking the sustainable, secure and just food future we know is possible. Our policy and scitech teams inspire European governments to direct R&D funding to the field. So your gift helps to leverage even greater sums secured in R&D funding – multiplying your impact.
Make a real difference
Your support allows us to be nimble and respond when we find a new barrier to the success of alternative proteins. We rigorously assess our impact and focus on neglected areas, where too few people are working and too little money is invested – so you know your support is making a real difference.
Potential and urgency
Your donations enable our scitech and corporate engagement teams to harness the potential of Europe’s top universities and commercial talent to advance alternative proteins. With your support, our policy and communications teams can seize the finite window of opportunity we have to influence regulation and consumer acceptance here.
Together, we can leverage Europe’s international influence to achieve global impact.
GFI Europe is 100% funded by philanthropy – we exist because of your support.
The difference your support makes
GFI Europe impact update: July 2023
Dive into a some of the highlights of GFI Europe’s work over the first half of the year.
Here are just some of the latest ways support from donors has already had an impact:
Meet the researchers: Tapping into the unexplored potential of an ancient technology
A technological twist on a widely used food production system is enabling researchers to develop tasty and nutritious new products.
2023 round-up: finding the levers to move alternative proteins forward
This year has been pivotal for alternative proteins, particularly in Europe. Here is our round-up of GFI Europe’s 2023 highlights.
Meet the researcher: making precision fermentation cheese with Etske Bijl
A career spent analysing the chemistry behind milk has given Etske Bijl unique insights to help her develop the world’s…
Meet 7 researchers who used GFI research grants to help transform the future of food. Could you be next?
GFI’s 2023 research grant programme is open for proposals. Meet some of the researchers at the cutting edge of this…
Forscher nutzen Fermentation, um Lebensmittel aus Lebensmittelabfällen zu entwickeln
Ein Team von Forscherinnen und Forschern aus Luxemburg verwendet eine aus der Antike stammende Technologie, um nicht genutzte Stoffe in…
Brewing up the future: using the power of fermentation to transform waste and byproducts into sustainable food
Researchers are using fermentation to turn agricultural waste into oils for food, using a process that could reduce methane emissions,…
10 times sustainable proteins won big in 2022
2022 has been another momentous year for plant-based foods, cultivated meat and fermentation.
Researchers recreate scent of salmon from plants to deliver more sustainable seafood
Researchers are aiming to recreate the unique aroma of salmon using plants to support the development of delicious and sustainable…
Giving tax-efficiently from Europe
If you have a question about tax-efficient giving to GFI Europe, please contact our philanthropy team at europe-philanthropy@gfi.org and they will be happy to advise you.
Our Development team
Our Development team builds relationships with donors in support of GFI’s global mission to make alternative proteins the default option. Donors interested in contributing to our work can contact them on europe-philanthropy@gfi.org.
