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Soil holds the promise of capturing greenhouse-gas emissions to help slow global warming. Companies are now working to measure how soil stores carbon as they encourage farming techniques that reduce e ...

AI startup The Live Green Co., which has developed a platform dubbed ‘Charaka’, used to discover plant-based replacements for animal ingredients, synthetics, and highly processed ingredients has unvei ...

There are few things as universal as the love of a steaming hot cup of coffee. In fact, for millions of people around the world, the incomparable beverage is the way to start the day.   So for the Fou ...

Much of Ukraine’s sunflower-seed oil exports remain curtailed by the war, but farmers are sending out the raw seeds instead, stabilizing the global market for cooking oil. In January, Ukraine exported ...

For many people, a new year means a new diet and that’s especially true for everyone who signed up for this year’s Veganuary. The month-long initiative to try a plant-based diet in January saw a recor ...

Global food shortages are a direct result of the natural disasters and extreme weather events we are witnessing more of year after year. However, one crop that could offset shortfalls is millet, which ...

The Middle Eastern Food and Beverage (F&B) industry is dynamic and constantly evolving, with new trends and developments emerging in response to consumer preferences, needs, and expectations, says Ren ...

The Women in F&B Power List 2023 is now in its fourth year. For 2023, we decided to do things a bit differently. Rather than running to 50 names and calling for nominations, this time, the Caterer Mid ...

DUBAI – February 22, 2023: KAOUN International and dmg events, organisers of THE SAUDI FOOD SHOW announced today that the 2023 launch edition has sold out this week during GULFOOD, four months before ...

DUBAI – February 21, 2023: As the 28th edition of the world’s largest Gulfood goes even larger and greener this year, the organiser Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) announces to the hundreds of thousan ...

BANGKOK – February 16, 2023 – Thai Union, with Asian-inspired plant-based propositions such as the shrimp dumpling, is now attracting global interest. For example, the world's first plant-based shrimp ...

UAE, February 15, 2023: GMG, a global well-being company retailing, distributing, and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and homegrown brands across sport, food, and health sectors, to ...

Turkish chefs Nusret “Salt Bae” Gokce and Burak “Czn Burak” Ozdemir, both of whom have restaurants in the UAE, have been vocal about their support for their country.   Gokce has deployed mobile kitche ...

On Monday, 6 February, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Türkiye and Syria. The quake is the worst tragedy to hit earthquake-prone Türkiye in 84 years, claiming at least 24,000 lives and leaving many ...

In November 2022, La Lorraine Bakery Group officially opened their new plant in Abu Dhabi. To support the ambitious growth plans in the Middle East region in the coming years, LLBG invested in local p ...

Mortadella, the flamingo-coloured lunch meat, has been made in Bologna since the 14th century. On first glance it’s slightly sad-looking – all flabby edges and globs of white fat. In a sandwich, howev ...

With the climate crisis climbing to the top of the global agenda, more people are beginning to take notice of the connection between our consumption choices and the carbon footprint it leaves behind. ...

Beef is a serious business in South Korea: local butchers typically identify 120 different cuts (as opposed to the western 20 or 30) that run from the tenderloin to obscure parts of the tail. Hanwoo b ...

Singaporean foodtech TiNDLE Foods has launched a line of new plant-based chicken products in 2,200 stores across Germany in a collaboration with the country’s largest retailer EDEKA Group, as well as ...

Emerging World, the sole importer of PRAN-RFL Group’s products in the Middle East region, has signed a land lease agreement with KEZAD Group for the establishment of a new manufacturing plant. The PRA ...

Cultured meat. Cultivated meat. Lab-grown meat. Cell-based meat. Whatever you call it, the newest addition to alternative protein is having a bit of a moment. Over the past few months, Singapore’s gov ...

DUBAI – January 18, 2023: Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) has announced the largest annual global food and beverage sourcing event in the world, Gulfood, will take place from 20-24 February 2023. Brin ...

Premium products for premium markets   It is the job of organisations such as Scottish Development International (SDI), Scotland’s international trade and investment agency, to support our companies a ...

Food inflation is one of the most significant topics as 2023 gets underway, underscored by the latest data from the UK, which reveals annual growth of Britain’s food prices hit 13.3% in December, the ...

In a two-week experiment, BBC Future tracked emissions from a vegan, vegetarian and omnivorous diet – and found some thought-provoking ways to lower emissions from our food.   One of the most impactfu ...

IFFCO Group has announced the launch of THRYVE, claimed to be the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC’s) first 100% plant-based meat venture.   IFFCO is an international UAE-based group that manufactures an ...

Plant-based cuisine has seen a dramatic increase in popularity worldwide over the past decade, especially among health-conscious consumers. Therefore, the global restaurant industry has begun includin ...

Those Vegan Cowboys, the spinoff brand from the founders of the Dutch plant-based meat brand Vegetarian Butcher, has launched its first precision fermentation cheese.   Jaap Korteweg and Niko Koffeman ...

Before he took his company public, Tattooed Chef CEO Salvatore “Sam” Galletti told investors his goal was “providing great-tasting plant-based products to the growing group of consumers who seek to ad ...

Climate labels on fast-food menus can help steer people in the US away from ordering beef — the food with the worst impact on the climate —  and towards meals that are better for the planet, according ...

The Amaterasu Railway is a tiny sightseeing train that takes visitors on a 30-minute ride and showcases some beautiful landmarks in the Miyazaki Prefecture. (A highlight includes Japan's highest train ...

You may choose to go vegan for your health, the planet, or the billions of animals slaughtered each year for food. They’re all good reasons to move meat and dairy off of your plate for Veganuary and m ...

More than enough food is produced to feed all of the 8 billion people currently alive on the planet, yet after a decade of steady decline hunger is back on the rise, affecting 10% of the global popula ...

Tell us a little about your journey and how you got involved in the food industry.   I was working in the F&B industry before I started Common Farms. I saw the problems coming from food importations: ...

A UAE environmental task force has launched a drive to cut food waste in dozens of schools across the country.   The Waste-free Schools campaign aims to educate pupils and staff on the steps they can ...

San Diego, California, was once known as the “Tuna Capital of the World.” Throughout much of the 20th century, thousands of workers caught cheap albacore tuna off the coast and packed it in canneries ...

Restaurants, grocers, farmers and food companies are increasingly turning to chemistry and physics to tackle the problem of food waste.   Some are testing spray-on peels or chemically-enhanced sachets ...

A new food hall concept from the company behind Ikea spotlights local, plant-based cuisine with a focus on regenerative agriculture.   Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea has not been shy about its su ...

Kellogg plans to split the company into three separate, publicly traded businesses, the CPG said in a statement. The separation is expected to be completed by the end of 2023. The company will spin of ...

No farmers. No food. No future. That is the saying that reminds us to value not just where our food comes from, but the farmers that grow it for us. While much of the agtech discussions these days foc ...

SWITZERLAND – Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate, Nestlé, plans to invest over CHF 100 million (US$107 million) by 2030 in low-carbon logistics for its three international wate ...

CHICAGO —November and December are the months flavor companies predict what tastes will be trending during the upcoming year. Many of this year’s projections are directed toward consumers who are movi ...

A cream-colored scoop of ugali (oo-gali) maize porridge sits in my plate— a round, stiff ball— its circumference saturated by a colorful mélange of greens and tomatoes, and a perfect pink snapper, sta ...

Egyptian procurement platform for hotels, restaurants and catering (HoReCa) businesses, Suplyd, has raised $1.6m in pre-seed funding to expand beyond Cairo and scale its technology    The pre-seed rou ...

Food giant PepsiCo raised some eyebrows last year when it announced it was starting a virtual restaurant.   The one-month popup Pep’s Place, launched in partnership with Famous Dave’s, had a beverage- ...

The nutri-tech start-up Novella is taking a page from cell-based meat production and growing botanical ingredients without the whole plant.   Israel-based Novella says it’s growing plants in bioreacto ...

For refrigerators across America, the passing of Thanksgiving promises a major purge. The good stuff is the first to go: the mashed potatoes, the buttery remains of stuffing, breakfast-worthy cold pie ...

THE WORD “PROCESSED” has become something of a slur.   Say “processed food” and most of us picture unhealthy, cheap junk. Fresh food straight from the garden or the field is good. Once we’ve put it th ...

RIYADH: Nestle will invest $1.86 billion in Saudi Arabia over the next decade, a tweet released by the Kingdom's Ministry of Investment's official account announced on Wednesday.    In a move which al ...

The United Arab Emirates food and beverages group Agthia has completed the acquisition of a 60% stake in Abu Auf, which specializes in the manufacture and sale of coffee products and healthy snacks in ...