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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 powered by philanthropy – we exist because of your support.
The difference your support makes
AMA with our SciTech team
Hear from GFI Europe team members Emily, Seren and Stella, answering your questions about our SciTech work and the impact of our generous family of donors.
Here are just some of the latest ways support from donors has already had an impact:
Meet the researcher: Bringing chicken out of the woods and onto the dinner table – the unexplored potential of mushroom foragers’ favourites with Dr Christoph Schwarz
Bringing chicken out of the woods and onto the dinner table – a commonly eaten mushroom popular with foragers is…
New analysis: Alternative proteins could boost the German economy by up to 65 billion euros and up to 250,000 new jobs by 2045
New analysis from systems change company Systemiq quantifies how protein diversification can drive economic growth, enhance trade, create future-proof jobs,…
GFI research grants 2025: Meet next generation of European alternative protein innovators
The latest round of Good Food Institute’s (GFI) research funding programme has demonstrated that European researchers continue to lead the…
We can’t do this alone: Why coalition building is essential to addressing the climate ‘cow in the room’
How we worked to drive real climate action in 2024
Report: More than a quarter of all European alternative protein research was published last year
A first-of-its-kind analysis has revealed the rapid growth of European alternative protein research – with more than a quarter of…
Before and after: 5 years of GFI Europe in 6 maps
On 22 August 2019, GFI Europe was founded. To celebrate GFI Europe’s fifth ‘birthday’, we’re taking a look at the…
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.
Giving tax-efficiently from Europe
If you are donating from Germany, Switzerland, or the Netherlands, donating via Effektiv Spenden, Effektiv Spenden Switzerland and Doneer Effektief respectively will allow you to give tax-effectively.
Donors in certain other countries can also give tax-effectively to GFI Europe through this link. If your country is not listed, it may still be possible to give tax-effectively. For more information, please email us at europe-philanthropy@gfi.org.
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.
