General Mills and Ahold Delhaize team up to transition 70,000 acres to regenerative agriculture
General Mills and Ahold Delhaize USA will transition 70,000 acres within their shared supply chain to regenerative agriculture by 2025.
General Mills and Ahold Delhaize USA will transition 70,000 acres within their shared supply chain to regenerative agriculture by 2025.
Ending food waste may calls for bolder action (and thinking) than any one behavioral change or technology can provide.
As pricing parity gets closer to conventionally grown produce, focus on demand attributes will be increasingly important to the whole industry.
Plus, the USDA’s office of the chief scientist gets a new director and cultivated meat startup Upside Foods expands its leadership team.
The deal will help Divert build more anaerobic digestion facilities across North America to turn food waste from grocery stores into renewable gas.
With a fintech platform and food prescription program, About Fresh is making food accesiblity a reality for more Americans.
The indoor farming company aims to make its greenhouse-grown leafy greens and herbs available to 90% of US consumers in the near future.
Layoffs, redundancies, and cooling investor sentiment are the major themes for instant grocery delivery startups this week.
Funding for food waste solutions up and down the supply chain reflects the growing importance of the category for businesses, consumers, and investors alike.
More than half of survey respondents said grocery stores must improve their sustainability claims and avoid greenwashing.
Funding will support further expansion of Flashfood’s food rescue and redistribution program at grocery retailers across the US.
Food retailers need technologies that can automate the supply chain to minimize disruptions and optimize inventory management.
A strategic partnership with Walmart includes putting Plenty’s vertically-grown greens on Californian store shelves this year.
The UK startup will use its insect farms to turn food waste from Morrisons supermarkets into feed for hens to produce ‘carbon-neutral’ eggs.
Symbotic said it’ll use the proceeds to “accelerate its growth plans” and “efficiently deliver on its contracted backlog.”
The Series A round led by Collaborative Fund will allow the Boston-based startup to enhance its ‘liquidation platform’ that helps CPG brands reduce food waste.
Americans could generate more than 300 million pounds of food waste this year as Thanksgiving gatherings resume and aspirational shopping abounds. The carbon footprint associated with that waste is the same as driving 169,000 cars for a full year, according to non-profit ReFed.
The US-based company wants to eliminate food waste by turning surplus grocery store inventory into animal feed via a closed-loop upcycling process.
CEO Erez Galonska said the deal “represents one of the largest rollouts of any vertical farming company in North America to date.”
The Tel Aviv-based startup plans to use the Series E funds to pursue M&A deals that will allow it to rapidly scale.
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